The French term Trompe L’Oeil literally means ‘deception of the eye.’ It is a genre that requires incredible technical skill, along with knowledge of perspective, contrast and trickery. These illusions, whether serious or playful, allow the viewer to perceive art and nature through a different perspective. In the 1960’s, distinguished ceramic artists such as Marilyn Levine, Richard Shaw, and Victor Spinski began further experimenting with Trompe L’Oeil in ceramics by transforming clay into leather, metal, wood, plastic, glass or steel and creating found objects, banal if by themselves but gaining significance and intrigue when combined with other quotidian clay-created found objects.
We are looking for artists practicing in any medium to submit work before October 15, 2009 to be considered for the group catalog.
Email submissions Attention Trompe L’Oeil to art@natsoulas.com
The John Natsoulas Gallery
521 1st St.
Davis, California 95616
United States
530-756-3938