Louis Katz

Louis Katz is an eclectic clayer whose work covers a wide spectrum of the genre. He has been creating work about the way practitioners of the ceramic arts define themselves and box themselves in with words and concepts sine 1975. It is hard to gain a clear idea of the breadth of this work without resorting to images, but it starts with functional tableware and travels to conceptual works. Along the way there are idiosyncratic offshoots including music, a flame throwing pipe organ, a remote control brick and work made of slipcast glass. This website itself can be seen as means to understand this man who writes about himself in the third person.

Bodies of work at the far reaches include a flame throwing pipe organ, slipcast glass, kilns, video installations, brick, and functional paintings. His writings include topics such as Thai Ceramics, understanding firing, statements on bodies of work, and perhaps the first computer program for glaze calculation.

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