Out to Supper

Kottler’s philosophical combination of sacred and profane, utilising commercial pottery with decals as a vehicle for his art, grew in response to the Bay Area funk art movement and shares many of its ceramic-centric ideologies towards humour and a rejection of ‘traditional’ art principles. ‘The Last Supper Ghost’ is a perfect example of the simple and profound alternations Kottler tended to lean towards, the transformation of Jesus at the last supper into a white-sheeted ghost a vaguely childish reduction of the weight and shape of the original iconographic depiction, but with a remaining resonance.