Ron Nagle
mixed media
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 4139
mixed media
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 4397
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
mixed media
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 4403
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
mixed media
7,6 x 8,9 x 7,6 cm
3 x 3.5 x 3 in.
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 4399
mixed media
12,1 x 12,7 x 7 cm
4.75 x 5 x 2.75 in.
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 4126
ceramic
9,5 x 13 x 13 cm
3.54 x 5.12 x 5.12 in
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 1216
mixed media
6,4 x 8,4 x 10 cm
2.5 x 3.25 x 4 in.
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 4448
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
mixed media
7,6 x 17,7 x 8,2 cm
3 x 7 x 3,3 in.
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 3078
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.