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Ed Brownlee

—Born Centralia, Pennsylvania

EDUCATION

—Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania

—Ceramics and Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

—Sole Proprietor, Edsware Ceramics, Kalamazoo, Michigan

 

Ed Brownlee is known for wheel-thrown and/or hand-built utilitarian pottery vessels. Forms include elongated ginger jars, jugs, pitchers, and vases. Surfaces are used as a canvas for stylized black and brightly colored graphic “paintings”. The subject matter is drawn from pop culture and portraiture.

 

 

 

 

Center for Craft This research was supported by a Craft Research Fund Grant from the Center For Craft
   
AMOCA American Museum of Ceramic Art American Museum of Ceramic Art

 

Typical Marks
ca 2017
21st Century Apothecary Jars
Date: ca 2017
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Thrown
Photo: TMP
Red Guy at Night
Date: ca 2017
Form: Sculpture
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Thrown, Hand Built
Photo: TMP
Vessel
Date: ca 2017
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Thrown and Altered, Hand Built
Photo: TMP
Plate
Date: ca 2017
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Thrown
Photo: TMP
Tumbler
Date: 2017
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Thrown
Surface Technique: Glaze
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP

Citation: Kuratnick, Jeffrey. "The Marks Project." Last modified September 7, 2019. http://themarksproject.org:443/print/marks/brownlee

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Indiana University of Pennsylvania, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

 

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