Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP

Small Whiskey Cup

USA, 1900
<p>Wheel thrown</p>
Date acquired:
Materials:
Stoneware
Form - Functional:
Cup
Form - Sculptural: N/A
Method:
Thrown
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes:
Glaze
Kathi Tighe | 1951 – Present

Martha Holt is known for functional stoneware as well as conceptual installations, which combined realistic, mold-made ceramic sculptures, photographs and photograms.

Holt?s series ?Perceptual Ambiguities? displayed slip cast forms of the tiles from her studio floor, along with bag of powdered clay and packaging material, photographs and photograms of her ceramic work. Another of Holt?s installation was an equally conceptual series ?Objective Impressions,? which featured clay tiles with photographs, so the bottom half of a tile might be clay and the top half might be a photograph. They often took the shape of mathematical symbols, such as a plus sign or equal sign.

Later in life, Holt worked on more abstracted sculpture inspired by the nature around her studio in Pennsylvania.

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