The Monterey Peninsula College Creative Arts Division is pleased to present the multi-departmental art exhibition

POV* 

100th Anniversary of The Reductionists

*provenance offered vicariously

This immersive exhibition invites audiences into the imaginative and often irreverent world of The Reductionists—a collective of artists founded in 1955 who pushed ceramics beyond its functional roots into the realms of narrative, theater, and the absurd. Moving fluidly between craft and fine art, their work explored atmosphere, form, and the material possibilities of clay as a stage for storytelling and experimentation. 

Curated by Dr. Louise Josephson, the retrospective draws from her personal collection of objects, images, and ephemera created by more than a dozen artists associated with the group, from its inception in 1955 to present day. Together, these works reveal not only the ingenuity of their makers but also the humor, tension, and poetic strangeness that marked The Reductionists’ radical reimagining of ceramic practice.  

Opening Reception Saturday, October 25th from 4-7PM

Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery

980 Fremont Street, Monterey CA 93940

The Reductionists and the POV 100th Anniversary Show are part of a parafictional art movement conceived by artist, fabulist, and MPC instructor, Mark Tanous. What you see here is both archive and invention, history and play—a story staged in clay.