Tom Rippon Ceramics
Tom rippon helped redefined american ceramics pushing the medium beyond expectations.
Tom rippon ceramics. Rippon s stylized sculptures clearly reference surrealism minimalism and expressionism. 17 x 15 x 3 inches. Auction records 14 for sale 0 signatures 2 biography. Tom rippon is known for whimsical ceramics art education.
Tom rippon is known for porcelain hand built and assembled small scale sculptures. His work is delicate playful and in a soft way provocative. Solomon dubnick gallery tom rippon main gallery nationally reknown ceramic artist tom rippon makes his first appearance at solomon dubnick gallery. His aunt ruth rippon a professor of ceramics at california state university sacramento brought clay to amuse tom and his sister as a way of helping out their mother who was in frail health.
Tom rippon american 1954 2010 a woman tossing her own salad 1989. Biography tom rippon art is in tom rippon s blood. His grandfather s woodbin provided another source of art. Tom rippon 1954 2010 tom rippon was active lived in montana california.
His sculptures are delicate yet formidable imaginative and humorous. Rippon could be viewed as an anti clay clay artist. The sculptures are pared down compositions often using a tear drop squiggle and cone motif to make abstractions based on the human body. Yet beyond the cheerful veneer the work is grounded and informed.