Ortiz, Virgil

Virgil Ortiz moves into a new era combining art, décor, fashion, video, and film. One of the most innovative potters of his time, Ortiz’s exquisite works have been exhibited in museum collections around the world including the Stedelijk Museum- Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands; Paris’s Foundation Cartier pour I’art Contemporain; the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian; the Virginia Museum of Fine Art; and the Denver Art Museum.

Ortiz, the youngest of six children, grew up in a creative environment in which storytelling, collecting clay, gathering wild plants, and producing figurative pottery was part of everyday life.His grandmother Laurencita Herrera and his mother, Seferina Ortiz, were both renowned Pueblo potters and part of an ongoing matrilineal heritage. “I didn’t even know it was art that was being produced while I was growing up,” he remembers. Ortiz keeps Cochiti pottery traditions alive but transforms them into a contemporary vision that embraces his Pueblo history and culture and merges it with apocalyptic themes, science fiction, and his own storytelling.

Episodes:
Tom Joyce, Kelly Eckel, Virgil Ortiz
Sculptor Virgil Ortiz, painter Philip Noyed, calligrapher Xu Bing, sculptor Bobby Zokaites
Virgil Ortiz – Traveling Through Time
Virgil Ortiz, Navajo Weaver Venancio Aragon & Kathleen Wall
Virgil Ortiz at Meow Wolf
Randy Boogie, Virgil Ortiz & Miguel Trujillo