The Tucson Museum of Art will be displaying the work of Tucson’s own Rose Cabat entitled Rose Cabat at 100: A Retrospective Exhibition of Ceramics beginning next month.
Rose Cabat is an American studio ceramicist living in Tucson. She was born in 1914 in the Bronx, New York and began her ceramics works in the late 1930’s when her husband, Erni, an assistant to art deco ceramist Vally Wiselthier, brought home some clay from work in order to make dinner plates. She always loved clay and after making some pieces, her husband purchased a membership for her to attend the Greenwich House, where she learned how to use a potter’s wheel.
Cabat moved with her family to Arizona in 1942, where she continued to make innovative ceramics.
Considered one of the most important ceramics artists of the Mid-century Modernist movement, Cabat is best known for her innovative glazes on small porcelain pots called “feelies,” which she developed in the 1960s. Her organic forms often resemble the shape of onions and figs, and her glazes range from organic to jewel tones.
This exhibition will begin on February 1 and run until September 14, 2014. A survey of her different styles from the 1960s until the present will be available in order to celebrate the year of her 100th birthday.
The Tucson Museum of Art is located at 140 North Main Avenue in Tucson.
For more information, call 520.624.2333 or email at info@TucsonMuseumofArt.org