Shapes From Outta Nowhere - Ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection theory #HAIRTESTS

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individually and collectively

but above all it’s a beautiful and important piece of design history

some artists have placed this concept at the very heart of their works

Shapes From Outta Nowhere - Ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection theory #HAIRTESTSFor the past fifty years, Robert A. Ellison Jr. has quietly and intuitively built one of the most significant assemblages of nineteenth , twentieth , and twenty first century ceramics, all the while observing and investigating the creative possibilities and ambitions of the humblest of materials: clay. Shapes From Out of Nowhere, published on the occasion of an exhibition highlighting a recent transformative gift of 125 works to the Metropolitan