I – Prongs – Ute Grossman
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’ – Ute Grossman
raku bottle, 2006
‘I love old’ Ute Grossman
Raku vessel, 2009
‘Woman Gutsel spending spree’
White stoneware clay, Porzellanengobe, glazes, electric kiln 1120 ° C
2009
‘Woman’ – Ute Grossman
2011
‘Utes Unke’ by Ute Grossman
White stoneware clay, Porzellanengobe, electric fire 1120 ° C,
Ute Grossmann installation- Keramion 2012
‘Ute 2’ – Ute Grossman
‘Unfolded’ – Ute Grossman
2009
‘Towels’ – Ute Grossman
‘Timely Spring’ – Ute Grossman
Ute Grossman ‘Illusions’
2005
Ute Grossman ‘Kernig III’
2007
‘Langer Winter’ – Ute Grossman
2006
‘Large Tourmaline’ – Ute Grossman
2008
‘Pennant’ Ute Grossman
Raku Vases
2006
‘Nature scenery’
white stoneware clay, glazes, raku 1020 ° C
‘Reversible Afraid’ – Ute Grossman
2008
‘Sedate’ – Ute Grossman
‘Small town (after Feininger)’ – Ute Grossman
‘Luftfassade’ – Ute Grossman
white stoneware clay, engobe,
electric kiln 1080 ° C
2008
‘Sweet Glass’ – Ute Grossman
Ute Grossman
Ute Grossman
‘Bauhaus sequence with impurity’ – Ute Grossman
Raku, white stoneware clay, glazes, 1020 ° C
2009
‘Baroque’ – Ute Grossman
2011
‘Autumnal’ – Ute Grossman
Ute Grossman vase
Female sculpture figure – Ute Grossman
Ute Grossman Raku Vase
‘Russian eggs, anticlockwise’
Raku, white stoneware clay, glazes, 1020 ° C
2012
‘Biopop’
2007
‘Frau luna’ – Ute Grossman
2010
‘SPutnik’ – Ute Grossman
2010
‘From the Knitting Magazine: The good and the bad fairy’ – Ute Grossman
2006
‘Woman Up’ – Ute Grossman
2008
Ute Grossman website here
