November 7- December 30 2025 Gallery Opening November 7 6-9pm
Plinth Gallery rounds out its exhibitions for 2025 with a presentation of sculptural ceramics by artist Margaret Bohls. Currently an associate professor of Art at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, her work isgrounded in her abiding interest in historical vessel forms, and their socialcontext. Plinth will showcase her “Bucchero” collection of black and whitecoil-built stoneware from her “Italian” series which is based on anexamination of several types of historical ceramics produced on the Italian peninsula. Bohl’s methodology for creating new work often begins with a study of a particular set of historical vessels. “I strive to identify a set of physical, formal attributes of these objects that visually communicate something about the culture that produced them or the era during which they were created.” She explains. “I do this through a close visual examination of theobjects and by making drawings of the objects. In these drawings I attempt to distill the objects down to what I consider to be their critical visual andformal characteristics. These drawings become the basis for the creation ofaseries of ceramic forms of my own.“Bohls is a highly regarded educator,
