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Lecture by Ron Nagle
Presented as part of CCA's Design and Craft Lecture Series
Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Ron Nagle is perhaps the only man alive who has made ceramics with Peter Voulkos and music with Scott Mathews, both titans of their respective genres. In the 1960s he was a member of the Cool School of LA and worked around the Abstract Expressionists, including Voulkos. His ceramic practice focuses almost exclusively on variations of cups, often pushing the form to near-abstraction. He is a professor of studio art at Mills College and has also taught at CCA, San Francisco State University, the San Francisco Art Institute, and UC Berkeley.
Nagle has also maintained a vibrant music career. In 1975 he teamed up with the songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Scott Mathews to write songs for Barbra Streisand, Michelle Phillips, and many other major recording artists. He and Mathews also briefly had a band project called the Durocs, named after a breed of pig with extremely big ears and testicles. The Durocs were signed to Capitol Records until (Wikipedia reports) they busted into an executive meeting one day, accompanied by dwarfs blasting fanfare trumpets and squealing pigs running loose. They had no subsequent releases.
Nagle lives and works in San Francisco. His lecture will be titled "The Latest and the Greatest."
The Design and Craft Lecture Series is funded by the Wornick Endowment Fund.
Generous support for CCA public programs in San Francisco has been provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
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