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If images of factories, billowing smokestacks and oil-slicked water sound alien to traditional ceramic decoration, the title of Ken Price\u2019s mid-90s series, \u2018Plutoware,\u2019 at Matthew Marks Gallery<\/a> plays along.\u00a0 Intended to be a pun on the word pollution, the iconic sculptor\u2019s scenes of environmental damage set up a fundamental contrast between intimately scaled and beautifully colored plates, bowls and vessels and depictions of giant manufacturing and co-generation plants.\u00a0 Though Price\u2019s work would seem to project despair, his wife, Happy Price explains an alternative point of view, saying, \u2018When you look at the Pluto Ware some people only see pollution, darkness, and grim and then other people\u2014like myself\u2014see a kind of strange dark beauty.\u2019\u00a0 (On view through Dec 18th<\/sup> in Chelsea).<\/p>\n

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Ken Price, Pluto Bowl (Green Sludge), glazed ceramic, 2 \u00bd x 7 \u00bc x 7 \u00bc inches, 1995.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If images of factories, billowing smokestacks and oil-slicked water sound alien to traditional ceramic decoration, the title of Ken Price\u2019s mid-90s series, \u2018Plutoware,\u2019 at Matthew Marks Gallery plays along.\u00a0 Intended to be a pun on the word pollution, the iconic sculptor\u2019s scenes of environmental damage set up a fundamental contrast between intimately scaled and beautifully … <\/p>\n

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