Warren MacKenzie
Tenmoku Platter w/ white pours, 2014
Stoneware
16.75h x 3.50w in
WM080
SOLD
Warren MacKenzie
Large Platter with Track Marks
Stoneware
17h in
WM063
Warren MacKenzie
Medium Grey Platter w/ Iron drip
Stoneware
3h x 17.50w in
WM072
Warren MacKenzie
Large Grey Platter w/ Iron Drips
From a Private Collection, Early 2000's
Stoneware
4h x 19w in
WM073
Warren MacKenzie
Shino Platter with Finger Wipes, Medium, 2017
Stoneware
13h x 2d in
WM141
Warren MacKenzie
Shino Platter Iron with Stamping, c. 2015
Stoneware
17h x 4w in
WM064
Warren MacKenzie
Shino Plate with Finger Swipes
Stoneware
19h in
WM065
Warren MacKenzie
Shino Platter with Finger Wipes, 2017
Stoneware
2.25h x 12w in
WM037
Warren MacKenzie
Bowl, Shino with Wipes
Stoneware
2.75h x 7.50w in
WM016
Warren MacKenzie
Chocolate drip plate 3, 2017
Stoneware
10.50h x 2w in
WM057
Warren MacKenzie
Shino Lidded Jar, Finger Swipes, 2014
Stoneware
8h x 8w x 7d in
2014
WM136
Warren MacKenzie
Medium Shino Platter with Finger Wipes
Stoneware
3h x 12.50w in
WM071
Warren MacKenzie
Tenmoku Platter with Reeve Green, 2016
Stoneware
WM069
SOLD
Warren MacKenzie
Platter, Tenmoku with Reeve Green, 2016
Stoneware
3h x 14.75w in
WM002
SOLD
Warren MacKenzie
Tenmoku Platter with Drips
Stoneware
3h x 13w in
WM009
SOLD
Warren MacKenzie
Tenmoku Platter
Stoneware
2.50h x 12.25w in
WM008
Warren MacKenzie
White/ Yellow/ Tenmoku Platter, 2010
Stoneware
19.50h x 3w in
WM068
Warren MacKenzie
Grey Brown Bowl with Tracks, 2016
Stoneware
4h x 7w in
WM010
Warren MacKenzie
Footed Bowl, Matte Grey w/ tire tracks
Stoneware
4h x 5w in
WM025
SOLD
Warren MacKenzie
Space Vase, Yellow Over Grey
Stoneware
9h x 14.25w in
WM147
SOLD
Warren MacKenzie
Tenmoku Fluted Bowl, Medium-Large, 2014
Stoneware
4h x 11.25w in
WM150
Warren MacKenzie
Black Tenmoku Bowl
Stoneware
5.75h x 3.75w in
WM155
Warren MacKenzie
Tenmoku Vase with Long Lines, 2016
Stoneware
11.25h x 5w x 5d in
WM140
SOLD
Warren MacKenzie
Chocolate drip plate 1, 2017
Stoneware
13h x 3w in
WM055
Warren MacKenzie
Dry Shino with Iron brush
Stoneware
4.75h x 11w in
WM052
Warren MacKenzie
Shallow Shino Bowl, 1994
Stoneware
3h x 12w in
WM109
SOLD
Warren MacKenzie
Platter, Shino Iron Stamping, Medium, 2013
Stoneware
13.50h x 13.50w x 2d in
WM139
Warren MacKenzie
Large White Platter, Blue Splatters, 2013
Stoneware
17.75h x 3.75w in
2013
WM138
SOLD
Warren MacKenzie
Medium Grey Platter, Iron with Blue
Stoneware
12h x 12w x 2.50d in
WM011
Warren MacKenzie
Blue Bowl with Etched Lines, 2016
Stoneware
3.50h x 6.50w in
WM143
SOLD
Warren MacKenzie
Splatter Bowl
Stoneware
5.50h x 9.50w in
WM151
Warren MacKenzie
White over Shinol w/ Iron Splash, Late 1990's - Early 2000's
Stoneware
5.50h x 9.50w in
WM105
SOLD
Warren MacKenzie
Oribe Lidded Jar
Stoneware
4.75h x 5.25w in
WM149
Warren MacKenzie
Oribe Faceted Bowl, Medium
Stoneware
3.25h x 7.50w in
WM148
Warren MacKenzie
Oatmeal Lidded Jar with Brush, Large, 2013
Stoneware
8.50h x 8w in
WM142
$ 1,400.00
Warren MacKenzie
Tall Vase with Finger Wipes
Stoneware
12h x 4.50w in
WM153
Warren MacKenzie
Tall Shino Vessel Ears, Texture & Carbon Trap, 2010
Stoneware
12.75h x 6.50w x 5.50d in
2010
WM146
SOLD
Warren MacKenzie
Shino Vase with Etched Lines
Stoneware
8.50h x 4.50w in
WM152
Warren MacKenzie
Circle Teapot
From a Private Collection, Late 1990's - Early 2000's
Stoneware
8h x 7.50w x 5.50d in
WM076
Warren MacKenzie
Red Shino Bowl with Drips
Stoneware
3.50h x 5.25w in
WM154
Warren MacKenzie (1924- 2018)
Green Faceted Bowl
Stoneware
4.25h x 6w in
PB-WM119
Warren Mackenzie, perhaps the most famous functional potter in the world, was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1924. MacKenzie trained as a painter at the Art Institute of Chicago before the war. Returning to find the painting classes filled, he joined a ceramic class. He and his first wife Alix, also a potter, were the first American apprentices of Bernard Leach, the noted British potter who wrote the seminal “A Potter’s Book”.
Lucy Lacoste Gallery is pleased to present Warren MacKenzie: Pattern and Line in our Concord gallery andon our website May 9 – 30. It has been our honor to represent Mr. MacKenzie since 2002, and we’ve had the pleasure of showing his work many times. For this carefully edited exhibition, we focused on the decorating styles of the artist. Included are museum quality examples of Mr. MacKenzie’s abstract surface decoration via pours of glaze, brushes, cardboard, as well as wheels and combs. It includes archival material from the peak of the artist’s career, as well as some pieces from the last years of the late master’s life (1924 -2018).
At the core of the exhibition are Mackenzie’s large platters, displayed on the wall like paintings. “Black Platter with White Pours” shows his genius at abstraction. Two large platters from the late 1990’s, both entitled “Grey with Iron Slip Trailing”, show his inspiration from Japan. There are platters with marks from the artist fingers as he wiped his hand through glaze; two platters “Shino with Iron Marks” and “Shino with Iron Stamping” show the artist’s elemental approach, inspired by African art.
Warren had a collection of over 50 tools collected from his travels around the world. These lead to a variety of patterning such as the marks from a child’s tractor toy on his drop rim bowls. “Tall Shino Vessel with Ears”, from 2010, has a deep texture which enrichens it from one of such tools. There are pieces with splatters, brush painting and embossing.
