Ute Grossman was born in Dresden ,Germany in 1960. Having originally studied Chemical Engineering, she gravitated towards the arts with studies in painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden in 1998/1999. She became a member of the Association of Artists as a freelance ceramicist in 2003 and has since developed a considerable portfolio of ceramic vessels and sculptural objects. Her early work also involved doing mosaic sculptures in public places. All her ceramic art still displays mosaic aspects, but are now also mixed with raku, which has become a more prominent feature over the last three years.
Recently she has also introduced porcelain clay with finely structured graphic surfaces. Nearly all her vessels are asymmetrical with playful proportions and when combined with the vivacious mixture of colour palettes and textural lines, serve to create striking pieces of ceramic art. Ute claims her work now has either humorous portraits which describe interpersonal relationships or obvious abstracted portraits which explain higher social contexts.
Within the last three years, I concentrated mostly on the Raku-technique.. These are either humorous portraits which describe interpersonal relationships or obvious abstracted portraits which explain higher social context.
Faded Beauty
raku vase, 2006
In the bushes
raku bottle, 2006
I love old
Raku vessel, 2009
Woman Gutsel spending spree
White stoneware clay, Porzellanengobe, glazes, electric kiln 1120 ° C
2009
Woman - 2011
Utes Unke
White stoneware clay, Porzellanengobe, electric fire 1120 ° C,
Ute Grossmann installation- Keramion 2012
Ute 2
Unfolded
2009
Towels
Timely Spring
Illusions -2005
Kernig III
2007
Langer Winter – 2006
Large Tourmaline
2008
Pennant
Ute Grossman Raku Vase
2006
Nature scenery
white stoneware clay, glazes, raku 1020 ° C
Reversible Afraid
2008
Sedate
Small town (after Feininger)
Luftfassade
white stoneware clay, engobe,
electric kiln 1080 ° C
2008
Sweet Glass
Ute Grossman
Bauhaus sequence with impurity
Raku, white stoneware clay, glazes, 1020 ° C
2009
Baroque – 2011
Autumnal
Ute Grossman vase
Ute Grossman Raku Vase
Russian eggs, anticlockwise
Raku, white stoneware clay, glazes, 1020 ° C
2012
Biopop
2007
Frau luna
2010
SButnik
2010
From the Knitting Magazine: The good and the bad fairy
2006
Woman Up – 2008
Ute Grossman website here
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2 Comments
dear Ute Grossman, your work is irrisitable! pure beauty, please continue to show your work.
I saw a post on Pinterest and repinned. As I was looking at this site, I was in awe. These are beyond beautiful. They are amazing. As a new potter, this was not pinned to my post of pottery I hope to do someday, rather to the post of “inspiration/admiration”. Truly spectacular.