About John Roloff
Born 1947. John Roloff is an American installation artist, conceptual artist and ceramicist.
John Roloff (b. 1947) is an American sculptor and conceptual craft artist.
Work During the late 1970s through the early 1990s, Roloff produced a series of site-specific kiln/furnace pieces. In addition to ceramic work and sculpture, Roloff has created numerous works of public art including the work, Green Glass Ship–Deep Gradient/Suspect Terrain, at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco.
Collections Roloff's work is held in the permanent collections of the National Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Chazen Museum of Art, among other institutions.
His papers from 1980 to 2002 are held in the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Who is John Roloff?
artist (born 1947)
When was John Roloff born?
John Roloff was born in 1947 in Portland.
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John Roloff is an installation artist, conceptual artist and ceramicist.
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John Roloff is American.
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