Michael Lucero
Deer from the Reclamation Series, 1996
Glazed white earthenware and found painted concrete object
40 5/8 x 35 x 9 3/4 inches
Racine Art Museum, Gift of Karen Johnson Boyd
Photography: Michael Tropea, Chicago, IL

Collection Focus: Michael Lucero

September 12, 2009 – January 17, 2010
at Racine Art Museum

RAM presents a career survey of the works of internationally recognized ceramic sculptor Michael Lucero. This exhibition—the third in an ongoing series of exhibitions that feature promised gifts and works already in the museum’s permanent collection—contains a total of 15 works by Lucero, of which eight are recognized as examples of his major sculptures.

Born in Tracy, California in 1953, Michael Lucero received his BA degree from Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. He completed his MFA at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he studied with Howard Kottler. Lucero received national recognition early in his career, while still in graduate school, for a series of large hanging figures made up of ceramic shards that were wired to pipe armatures. Lucero is a three-time recipient of National Endowment for the Arts grants.

Lucero usually works in series. He creates pieces using a specific form or method of working over a period of time before evolving into another way of depicting imagery. RAM’s current representation of this artist’s career includes a number of works from different series and the museum will continue to build on its documentation of Lucero’s work.

In continuation of RAM’s commitment to contemporary craft and to further scholarship in the field, the museum produced a 20-page exhibition catalogue, with essays on the significance of Michael Lucero’s work along with representative images from the museum’s permanent collection. This full-color publication is available for purchase on-site in the RAM Museum Store and online at racineartmuseumstore.org.

More About the Exhibition

Exhibition Catalogue, available for purchase from the RAM Online Store

Press Room

Collection Focus: Michael Lucero

September 12, 2009 – January 17, 2010
at Racine Art Museum
Michael Lucero
Deer from the Reclamation Series, 1996
Glazed white earthenware and found painted concrete object
40 5/8 x 35 x 9 3/4 inches
Racine Art Museum, Gift of Karen Johnson Boyd
Photography: Michael Tropea, Chicago, IL

RAM presents a career survey of the works of internationally recognized ceramic sculptor Michael Lucero. This exhibition—the third in an ongoing series of exhibitions that feature promised gifts and works already in the museum’s permanent collection—contains a total of 15 works by Lucero, of which eight are recognized as examples of his major sculptures.

Born in Tracy, California in 1953, Michael Lucero received his BA degree from Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. He completed his MFA at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he studied with Howard Kottler. Lucero received national recognition early in his career, while still in graduate school, for a series of large hanging figures made up of ceramic shards that were wired to pipe armatures. Lucero is a three-time recipient of National Endowment for the Arts grants.

Lucero usually works in series. He creates pieces using a specific form or method of working over a period of time before evolving into another way of depicting imagery. RAM’s current representation of this artist’s career includes a number of works from different series and the museum will continue to build on its documentation of Lucero’s work.

In continuation of RAM’s commitment to contemporary craft and to further scholarship in the field, the museum produced a 20-page exhibition catalogue, with essays on the significance of Michael Lucero’s work along with representative images from the museum’s permanent collection. This full-color publication is available for purchase on-site in the RAM Museum Store and online at racineartmuseumstore.org.

More About the Exhibition

Exhibition Catalogue, available for purchase from the RAM Online Store

Press Room

Sample of Work in the Exhibition

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Exhibitions at RAM are made possible by:

Platinum Sponsors

The Estate of Karen Johnson Boyd
David Charak
Judith and David Flegel Fund
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Ron and Judith Isaacs
Nicholas and Nancy Kurten
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Windgate Foundation

Diamond Sponsors

City of Racine’s Grow Racine Grant
Osborne and Scekic Family Foundation
Ruffo Family Foundation
Ruth Arts Foundation

Gold Sponsors

Anonymous
Tom and Irene Creecy
Richard and Patricia Ehlert
Herzfeld Foundation
Reliance Controls
Ruth Foundation for the Arts
Trio Foundation of St. Louis
W.T. Walker Group, Inc.
Wisconsin Arts Board

Silver Sponsors

Anonymous
Art Bridges
Baird
A.C. Buhler Family
Lucy G. Feller
Ben and Dawn Flegel
Jim Harris
Sharon and Tom Harty
Lise Iwon
J. Jeffers & Co.
Johnson Financial Group
Dorothy MacVicar
Jan Serr and John Shannon

Bronze Sponsors

Ellen and Joseph Albrecht
Andis Foundation
Susan Boland
Virginia Buhler
Butcher & Barrel/Amos Los Tacos
Educators Credit Union
Express Employment Professionals
Tony and Andrea Hauser
Bill and Debbie Keland
Susan Manalli
Jean and Alex Mandli, Jr.
The Prairie School
Cathy Stanghellin
Georgiana Treivush
Twin Disc, Inc.

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