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        2. John Mason ('57), born in Madrid Nebraska in , began exhibiting his powerful ceramic work at L.A.'s legendary Ferus Gallery in the late s.
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        4. John Mason (March 30, – January 20, ) was an American artist who did experimental work with ceramics.
        5. John Mason, a California sculptor known for groundbreaking, large-scale, ceramic abstractions, died Sunday at his home in Carlsbad at age

          6. John Mason

          Over four decades, John Mason has created a body of ceramic art noted for its increasingly conceptual and geometric nature. In the mid-1950s, as a student of Peter Voulkos in Los Angeles, he was an active participant in the aesthetic revolution that reshaped the field of American ceramics, transforming tradition-bound studio potters into avant-garde clay sculptors.

          In the late 1950s and early 1960s Mason created towering, handbuilt clay sculptures and large ceramic wall reliefs whose monumentality and raw, gestural surfaces were comparable to abstract expressionist paintings.

          Increasingly, however, his wall-bound and vertical pieces became more massive and reductive, their surfaces smoother and less overtly expressive. A gradual shift toward a more geometric aesthetic occurred, and by the mid-1960s, centralized motifs of crosses and X shapes predominated.

          By 1966 John Mason found the process of working directly with damp clay to create large monolithic pieces that requ