Marek Cecula
Arts/Industry: Pottery, 1982
Marek Cecula immigrated to the United States in 1976 after studying ceramics in Israel and working in Brazil. Cecula’s contribution to the ceramics field is the ease with which he moves between design, craft, and sculpture. His work is strongly influenced by industrial processes and materials.
Cecula established his first studio and gallery, Contemporary Porcelain, in New York City. In 1995 he founded Modus Design in New York, NY. Modus produces the domestic wares Cecula designed for both mass production and limited editions. An example of this production is Colorware, a mix-and-match approach to dinnerware with brightly colored reserves within black rimmed plates.
Cecula’s work is included in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum; and the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. He has shown work at the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Winda, Kielce, Poland; Garth Clark Gallery in New York; Galeri Ram in Oslo, Norway; and the Racine Art Museum in Wisconsin.
His work is included in numerous publications about ceramics. He lives and works in Poland and New York City.
