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Jack Moulthrop's large
ceramic vessels generally sit as architectural accent floor pieces. His well
rounded ellipsoids and spheroids in southwestern and contemporary styles are the result of his admiration for the New World vessel form. He has had many gallery shows and exhibitions. Collections include the
Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus,
Ohio and
Canton Museum of Art, Canton,
Ohio.
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I started in
ceramics and was gradually drawn into
sculpture over the next few years, until I had a dual
concentration in both. My road as an
artist started in functional
ceramics, led into sculptural
ceramics, to
sculpture in
clay, through some video experiments, and now into computer
graphics. I had been looking at gumball machines for some time, trying to figure out how the mechanism worked. Finally several years ago I saw a few wooden machine in the bookstore and it showed the mechanism, so I sketched them and started playing with the ideas on paper and I worked out several ways to do it, simplifying it more and more until I made one out of scraps of wood. Eventually I decided to develop it into a sculptural form, while keeping the functional aspect. I think that working with wood puts certain limits on me, while
ceramics could really set me free. I also need to break away from the glass wine bottles too, into another form such as porcelain bottles or hand blown glass, maybe one day.
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