| Anna Silver | ||
| Birth Date: August 21, 1935 |
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| Anna Silver was born in Flint, Michigan August 21, 1935. Silver began her career as a painter, but her interests were always wide-ranging. She studied painting, printmaking and sculpture at the University of Berkeley and the Art Students League in New York City. In the early 50s she studied with Fernand Leger in Paris. Silver made her first ceramics at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles in the late 50s, during the extraordinary period there of Peter Volkus, Michael Frimkess and Paul Soldner. In 1975 she decided to work exclusively in clay: she like the feel and challenge of it and the opportunity to combine plasticity with painterliness.
In Anna Silver’s own words she describes herself; “I was raised in an upper middle class Jewish family. My parents were immigrants, and my father became a very successful businessman. He was musically talented and I studied violin and piano beginning at around 6 years of age until about 15 years of age. I went to high school in Toronto and moved to Los Angeles at which time I went to Berkeley. I became interested in art when I was a teenager. I was an easel painter for years, studying sculpture, print making in all aspects, etc. While raising my family I always made art. My favorite medium is the one in which I now work and have worked exclusively now for 15 years. I am very serious about my art and work almost every day. I am married to a psychiatrist and have three children – one is a musician.
I am primarily a vessel maker and am influenced by attic pottery and contemporary painting”.
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