Ron Nagle
![Vaguely Asian, 2014](http://pierremariegiraud.com/cspdocs/artwork/images/ron_nagle_pierre_marie_giraud_4139.jpeg)
mixed media
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 4139
![96'd, 2014](http://pierremariegiraud.com/cspdocs/artwork/images/ron_nagle_pierre_marie_giraud_4398.jpg)
mixed media
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 4397
![Handlin' Bambi (NA), 2014](http://pierremariegiraud.com/cspdocs/artwork/images/ron_nagle_pierre_marie_giraud_4403.jpg)
mixed media
12,7 x 11,4 x 9,5 cm
5 x 4.5 x 3.75 in.
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 4402
![Hardy Plank, 2014](http://pierremariegiraud.com/cspdocs/artwork/images/ron_nagle_pierre_marie_giraud_4404.jpg)
mixed media
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 4403
![Carving Station (NA), 2014](http://pierremariegiraud.com/cspdocs/artwork/images/ron_nagle_pierre_marie_giraud_4453.jpg)
mixed media
7,6 x 12,1 x 7,9 cm
3 x 4.75 x 3.125 in.
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 4445
![Avant-Garage, 2014](http://pierremariegiraud.com/cspdocs/artwork/images/ron_nagle_pierre_marie_giraud_4400.jpg)
mixed media
7,6 x 8,9 x 7,6 cm
3 x 3.5 x 3 in.
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 4399
![Balky Caucaus, 2014](http://pierremariegiraud.com/cspdocs/artwork/images/ron_nagle_pierre_marie_giraud_4126.jpeg)
mixed media
12,1 x 12,7 x 7 cm
4.75 x 5 x 2.75 in.
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 4126
![New Julius, 1998](http://pierremariegiraud.com/cspdocs/artwork/images/ron_nagle_new_julius_pierre_marie_giraud_1143.jpg)
ceramic
9,5 x 13 x 13 cm
3.54 x 5.12 x 5.12 in
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 1216
![Ghost Town, 2014](http://pierremariegiraud.com/cspdocs/artwork/images/ron_nagle_pierre_marie_giraud_4456.jpg)
mixed media
6,4 x 8,4 x 10 cm
2.5 x 3.25 x 4 in.
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 4448
![Monty Carlos, 2014](http://pierremariegiraud.com/cspdocs/artwork/images/ron_nagle_pierre_marie_giraud_4407.jpg)
mixed media
10,2 x 9,1 x 10,8 cm
4 x 3.6 x 4.25 in.
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 4406
![Sosumo, 2012](http://pierremariegiraud.com/cspdocs/artwork/images/ronNagle_3078.jpg)
mixed media
7,6 x 17,7 x 8,2 cm
3 x 7 x 3,3 in.
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 3078
![Babe Magnate, 2012](http://pierremariegiraud.com/cspdocs/artwork/images/ronNagle_3084.jpg)
mixed media
26 x 13,3 x 6,9 cm
10,3 x 5,3 x 2,8 in.
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 3084
Born in San Francisco, California, in 1939
Ron Nagle makes small compositions of mysterious forms that invite contemplation and intense study and which defy and encompass traditional boundaries between ceramics, sculpture, and painting. Nagle is part of the Abstract Expressionist Ceramics movement led by Peter Voulkos.
Freely mixing clay with other techniques, his inspirations are as diverse as the origins of his artworks’ titles. His condensed pieces are highly evocative, evoking a range of emotional responses from sheer eroticism to visceral discomfort. Intertwining vices, the vocabularies of gluttony and lust easily mingle in describing Nagle’s dribbling bright and luscious drips of enamel, iridescent, pastel, and velvety surfaces, spilling holes, perforations, and folds. Each of his little sculpted clay objects are fragments of a small world, a miniature scene on which a small event has been captured. Every little piece by Nagle tells a long story.