And I wanted to learn everything about her! Her work is colorful, feminine, and whimsical.just like her home and her life. She was well known for her exquisite luster glazes. She developed a signature style of glazing, an all-over, in-glaze luster that draws the metallic salts to the surface of the glaze, a technique in which the kiln is denied oxygen during the firing process. Beatrice Wood passed away in 1998 at the age of 105.ĭuring her lifetime, her work was recognized in exhibitions at major museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Beatrice Wood, the "Mama of Dada," was an important contemporary artist, craftwoman, and writer. Its mission is to preserve the legacy of Wood’s long artistic career. Her second home, Happy Valley, is now the Beatrice Wood Center for the Art. They helped her develop the luster glazes she used throughout her career. She became friends with fellow ceramists, Vivika and Otto Heino, who would later purchase her Ojai house and studio. In 1947, Wood built a house and studio in Ojai, California. Wood also made a number of tile paintings that referenced her early associations with the Cubist and Dada artists, including Marcel Duchamp. When she moved back to California, she studied first with Glen Lukens and later with Gertrud and Otto Natzler.
She immersed herself in the Paris and New York Dada and Modern art scenes of the early twentieth century.
She led an eccentric, artistic career before her formal ceramics training began. Wood began working with clay after moving to Southern California in 1933. She soon moved onto more complicated forms and structures.
Her early work features these glazes on utilitarian dinnerware and domestic vessels. She developed a series of characteristic all over luster glazes achieved by reduction firings.
Unknown Studied painting at the Academie Julian, Parisġ947 Independent Studio Potter, Ojai, Californiaīeatrice "BEATO" Wood is known for loosely formed vessels reflective of her interest in Bohemian styles and folk art. Unknown Studied acting at the Comedie-Francaise, Paris
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