Arcadia Missa
Redd Ekks: The Conference of the Birds

“Redd Ekks (Robert Rasmussen) is a foundational figure in California’s ceramic arts revolution, and yet his work remains largely elusive. After earning his degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1959, he taught in the school’s ceramics program for the next three decades and forged a body of work informed by symbolism, morphology and West Coast Surrealism. His practice is solemn and secretive, giving form to sculptures that induce a numinous reverence. “