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Hudson Register-Star
"The work of ceramicist Frank
Colson is featured for July at the Hudson
Valley Arts
Center, 337 Warren St., Hudson. His work is a unique fusion
of modern ceramic aesthetics and ancient designs. Colson's
work is drawn
from the design of the ancient Chinese Han
Horses. He uses a combination
of bold glazing techniques and
color combinations...a subtle variation on this approach is
his use of pit firing which plays on more of the ancient
design,
and provides a softer feel to the work. Both the pit
firing and his bold two-
tone glazing techniques have an
abstract nature to them that works well
with the established
form of the Han Horse.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
"Animal, Vegetable, Mineral," on display at Gallerie Chiz in
Shadyside... has
a large display of horse sculptures that
gallery owner Ellen Chisdes Neuberg
has dubbed "for the
horsey set." When I visited the gallery... I was pleasantly
surprised. The sculptures are by Frank Colson...clay and
bronze sculptures
of horses based on designs from China's
Han (206 B.C. to A.D. 220) and Tang
(618 to 906) dynasties.
Colson has made clay horses since 1962, but it was not
until
1994, when he began making slip-cast molds based on Western
Han
Dynasty burial figures, that his horse sculptures took
on dramatic historical
effect. Other works such as "Braying
Horse," with its wildly gestured stance,
and "Mane Horse,"
with its flowing and extended mane, offer stylistic
flourishes while holding steadfast to the Tang influence and
maintaining
centuries-old effects."-Kurt Shaw
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
"Taking his inspirations from the art of
ancient cultures, ...Colson develops a distinctly modern and
unique expression of the agelessness and essentially
unchanging continuation of life. Underneath the whimsical
presentation, the
features and the bright colors seems to
lie a seriousness of purpose that won't
be ignored." -
Rex Allyn
The Pelican Press
"Colson's horses are handsomely well-scaled, concise and
strong. There is a
nice tension in the arch of their necks
and the suggestion of a primitive history."
- Thyrza
Jacobs
Vero Beach Press-Journal
"He (Colson) ...traveled extensively throughout South
America and the Pacific
and acknowledges his most recent
work is indebted to the arts of the Aztecs,
of Thailand, of
Japan...But he does not copy these early arts; his sculpture
is
highly original, often humorous, always intriguing."
Soundings
"Colson's work speaks of tradition and myth but not through
the traditional
pottery forms we're accustomed to. By
combining ancient smoke firing methods
with modern art
forms, the works takes on a timeless quality."
- Sandhill
Arts Council
