“Rudy Autio's ceramic art possesses a quiet knowledge. You will say, ‘what of the tumbling horses, the contortionist women with arms and legs bent in directions even a gyroscope could not balance?’ And you would be correct, but then consider: the bending clay, the drawn slip forming arabesque figures, the increasingly colorful glazes. Here is the quiet knowledge, as the decision to repeat or discard, shift the hue, thicken the line, each accumulate for a mature vision. There is an additional subtlety, one of constancy, created from a lifelong commitment to drawing and to the clay vessel.”

This page consists of mostly work from the 60s and 70s, in Rudy’s abstract phase. Note the lack of color.

photographs and labels are a work in progress!