Self-Portrait

Michael Lucero

born 1953

Self-Portrait, 1981

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: underglaze staining; wire; aluminum; terracotta

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Length (Height x Width x Length): 205.74 x 71.12 x 55.88 cm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 81 x 28 x 22 in

Credit line: The Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Accession number: 2009.0059

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Exhibition Label: "NetWorks: Art and Artists from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection," Mar-2011, Susan Earle, Stephen Goddard, and SMA Interns The artist writes: “Of course, the shard is an archeological remnant and something I wanted to speak about. In fact, I deliberately played the vessel and the fragment against one another to refer to history, decay, accumulation, meaning, and so on.” Michael Lucero describes himself as having become enamored of ceramics during his childhood when he spent time with his family in California and New Mexico. The artist settled in New York soon after receiving his MFA from the University of Washington in 1978, and, while he was influenced by Minimalism, his sculptures retained a connection to the folk art and archaeological objects that had inspired him in his youth. Artworks such as Self-Portrait were made of many hand-built shards that were “sewn together” with wire, a process that the artist has compared to embroidery or quilting.