\"Ceramic Artist\" Rick Dillingham Hand Signed Album Page For Sale

Up for sale "Ceramic Artist" Rick Dillingham Hand Signed Album Page. 

ceramic artist, scholar, collector and museum professional best known for his

broken pot technique and scholarly publications on Pueblo pottery. Rick

Dillingham was born in Lake Forest, Illinois on November 13, 1952. He moved to

Albuquerque in 1971 to study at the University of New Mexico.

While he was a student there he worked at the campus' Maxwell Museum of

Anthropology. In 1974 he curated and wrote the catalog for the

Maxwell Museum's exhibition, Seven families in Pueblo pottery. After graduating with his BFA, Dillingham went

on to Claremont Graduate School of

Scripps College, where he studied with Paul Soldner. After completing his Master of Fine Art he

returned to New Mexico where he lived the rest of his life. In 1994, shortly

after Dillingham died from complications with AIDS, the University of New Mexico press released the

book Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery, an expansion of the Seven

families in Pueblo pottery catalog. Dillingham's experience studying

and repairing Native American pots influenced his own creations. He was also

influenced by teacher Hal Riegger and artist Beatrice Wood. He is known for pioneering a process in which

he hand-built a vessel, fired it, deliberately broke it into shards, painted

both sides of the shard randomly, refired and reassembled the individual pieces

and finally added additional metallic decoration. Dillingham's work is included

in such prestigious collections as the Los Angeles Museum of Art, Mint Museum

of Craft and Design, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the

Smithsonian American Art Museum.