ANNE KRAUS

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The Book and Other Stories Bread Basket (Shining Leaf)

Inner Basket text (3 figures):
I awake from 
a dream in which 
I work in a steel mill 
in Northern Germany 
in the 1880’s

Inner basket (volleyball players):
This entity asks you 
what you are 
waiting for

Inner bottom (fire): 
You give me a book 
with pictures of my past lives 
but when I try to read it, a fire starts

Side (woods & rifle):
In this dream you are 
a sentry and for a moment 
you wonder where we buried the love that brought us 
all to this planet 
to begin with. 

Side (deer):
The deer spoke 
of another world where 
animals and humans 
are friends. 
But her voice faded 
and I wondered 
if I had heard 
just the wind in the trees

ANNE KRAUS

b. 1956, Short Hills, NJ
d. 2003 Boulder, CO

Anne Kraus is best known for painterly narrative scenes on traditional ceramic forms, usually in a white reserve and incorporating text. Kraus began her art career as a painter living in New York City. The European porcelains from Meissen, Sèvres and R.S. Prussia that she saw at the Metropolitan Museum captured her imagination and influenced her decision to work in clay.

Kraus’ early work was done at her Shining Leaf Pottery in New Jersey. The pieces are built from slip-cast stoneware elements that are combined and recombined in many different ways. Kraus mastered the use of under glaze decoration. The emotional images in her narratives may appear deceptively calm, often drawn from her dream diaries, they frequently present her deeply personal views on political, social and cultural issues. In addition to images, her work typically includes carefully drawn text relating to the images. Toward the end of her career she began making tile paintings.