Angel Oloshove

"The Mountain of Self Actualization" Colorful Pastel Abstract Ceramic Sculpture 2017

$2,600

Material

Ceramic

About

Colorful pastel abstract sculpture by Houston-based artist Angel Oloshove. The work features an abstract mountain shape that blends from yellow, to pink, and finally to blue. Oloshove uses different glaze techniques, including flocking, to create a variety of textures.

Artist Biography

Angel Oloshove studied painting at California College of the Arts. She worked in graphic design and toy development in Tokyo, for six years. Her work often experiments with painterly glazes to express feelings of transcendental experiences through form and color. She has balance a fine art practice of sculptural ceramics as well has her own line of functional design pottery stocked in design boutiques throughout the United States. In 2017, her studio practice expanded into painting and printmaking culminating in an editioned artist book with Aventures LTD Press. Her exhibition Floating Worlds was selected as a Critic’s Pick for the April 2015 issue of ArtForum. In 2015, she was named one of “Ten Modern Ceramists Shaping the Future” by AnOther Magazine. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the American Craft Council Emerging Artist Award. Her most recent solo exhibition took place at the Ogden Museum Center for Southern Craft and Design (New Orleans, LA) in 2020- 2021. Her most recent commission in 2020, for the MD Anderson Cancer Center features 12 ceramics sculptures exhibited alongside 12 pastel drawings which is a part of their permanent collection. She teaches ceramics at the the Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the Katherine G. McGovern College of Art at the University of Houston.

Dimensions

H 13 in. x W 9 in. x D 5 in.
"The Mountain of Self Actualization" Colorful Pastel Abstract Ceramic Sculpture 2017
"The Mountain of Self Actualization" Colorful Pastel Abstract Ceramic Sculpture 2017