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Ron Nagle's brilliant new sculptures expand the idiom of ceramic form that has occupied him for the past forty years. Shapes that loosely resemble tea and sake cups, snuff bottles, and the more organic - thin fins - categorize the works. They are slicker than previously with glossy, candy-coated finishes on glass-like surfaces that melt and drip over bases that are smooth and bright or pebbly and muted. The drips change color as they descend like day-glo icing on pastel confections. Other glaze flourishes include airbrushed puffs of color, ceramic decals, and iridescence from spraying glaze at an angle.

Mr. Nagle obtained a BFA from San Francisco State University and is currently a professor at Mills College. He has been the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Adeline Kent Award, two Mellon Grants, and a Flintridge Foundation Visual Artist Award. Nagle's work is included in the collections of the Oakland and San Francisco Museums, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London among others.