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Jody Mussoff (born 1952 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American ceramist and artist, living in Virginia.

Jody Mussoff
Born	1952 Pittsburgh
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Carnegie-Mellon University Corcoran College of Art and Design
Known for	ceramic arts

Biography

Mussoff was born in 1952 in Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania.[1] She received her art training at Carnegie-Mellon University and the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Her work was included in the exhibition Graphic Masters III, held at the Smithsonian Institution's American Art Museum in 2010. [2]

Work

Mussoff's brightly colored drawings[3] represent people and animals from her imagination. She uses a cross-hatching technique, and leaves much of the background blank. Her ceramics are earthenware, also brightly colored, decorated with people and animals. There is humor and a surrealistic quality to her drawings and ceramics.^{[citation needed]}

Critical reception

Mossoff's drawings have been described by The Washington Post as "technically brilliant",[3] while The Orlando Sentinel observed that her drawing's richly colored skin again stands out, although here to more quirkily psychological effect."[4]

The Baltimore Sun described her drawings as having a "degree of understated humor that keeps the message from becoming heavy-handed."[5]

Collections

Mussoff's work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art's Corcoran Collection,[6] the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,[7] the Princeton University Art Museum[8] Smithsonian American Art Museum,[1] University of Maryland, [9] the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts[10] Yale University Art Gallery,[11] the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Kunsthalle Nürnberg, and the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts.[2]

Mussoff is listed in major artist databases.[12][13][14]

References

External links

• Mussoff's Drawings Speak Quietly on Life
• Go Figure: Representing the Representational at Maryland Art Place
• Representative Offerings, By Pamela Murray Winters

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