Bernard Kester
Bernard Kester made a wide range of vessel forms inspired by mid-century California design. He primarily worked with stoneware but occasionally created pieces using porcelain.
Kester studied with Laura Andreson who was a ...
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Bernard Kester made a wide range of vessel forms inspired by mid-century California design. He primarily worked with stoneware but occasionally created pieces using porcelain.
Kester studied with Laura Andreson who was a strong influence. Hestudied textile design as well as ceramics at UCLA.
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1954-1956
Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, California
1956-1991University of California, Los Angeles, California
1962Freelance fabric design, Crawford & Stoughton, Los Angeles, California
1967California State University, Fullerton, California
1981-1992Principal Exhibition Designer, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
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- Bibliography
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Andreson, Laura and Bernard Kester. Laura Andreson, Ceramics. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Art Galleries, 1970.
Kaplan, Wendy. California Design, 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way”. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2011.
Kester, Bernard. American Crafts ’76: An Aesthetic View: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois. Chicago, IL: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1976.
____________. Made in LA: Contemporary Crafts ’81: A Bicentennial Celebration. Los Angeles, CA: Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1981.
____________. “Letter from Los Angeles.” Craft Horizons (each issue 1972-1975).
Tigerman, Bobbye, ed. A Handbook of California Design, 1930-1965: Craftspeople, Designers, Manufacturers. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2013.
Zaiden, Emily. Bernard Kester; Conduit for California’s New Crafts Movement. Los Angeles, CA: Craft in America, 2011.
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Citation: Bernard Kester, "The Marks Project."
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