Night Ship/Submerged Channel/the Frozen Sea
50 in long, ceramic, fused silica /1986 / collection: Smithonian Institution

Installed in The Boat Show / Renwick Gallery / Smithsonian Institution / 1989
The work in the Boat Show also included other ceramic ships from the Smithsonian collection:
Night Ship/Wind Reef/the Frozen Sea and Night Ship/Storm Garden/the Frozen Sea
as well as the installation of the larger work: Lahontan Group III: Vanishing Ship (Greenhouse for Lake Lahontan)
Night Ship/Orchid
50 in long, ceramic, circa 1984
provenance unknown
Night Ship/Hotel of Chemistry
50 in long, ceramic, circa 1984
collection: artist
Night Ship/Twin Retorts
50 in long, ceramic, circa 1984
collection: artist
Night Ship/Two Props/the Frozen Sea,
50 in long, ceramic, fused silica, 1984
collection: Newport Harbor Museum
Night Ship/Double Horizon/the Frozen Sea,
50 in long, ceramic, fused silica, 1985
private collection
Night Ship/Storm Wave/the Frozen Sea,
50 in long, ceramic, fused silica, 1985
private collection
Night Ship/Wind Caves/the Frozen Sea,
50 in long, ceramic, fused silica, 1984
collection:Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA
Night Ship/Dark Garden/the Frozen Sea,
50 in long, ceramic, fused silica, 1985
collection: Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
Night Ship/Mined Hull/the Frozen Sea,
50 in long, ceramic, fused silica, 1984
private collection
Night Ship/Dark Current/the Frozen Sea,
50 in long, ceramic, fused silica, 1985-6
private collection, destroyed in robbery
Night Ship/Storm Garden/the Frozen Sea,
24 in wide, ceramic, fused silica, 1985-6
collection: Smithonian Institution
Night Ship/Lava Caves/the Frozen Sea,
50 in long, ceramic, fused silica, pumice, 1986
private collection
Night Ship/Wind Mountain /the Frozen Sea,
50 in long, ceramic, fused silica, 1985
collection: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Night Ship/Submerged Channel/the Frozen Sea
50 in long, ceramic, fused silica, 1986
collection: Smithonian Institution
Night Ship/Jade Sea/the Frozen Sea,
50 in long, ceramic, fused silica, colorant, 1986
provenance unknown
Night Ship/Storm Reef/the Frozen Sea,
50 in long, ceramic, fused silica, 1986
private collection
Night Ship/Haystack/the Frozen Sea,
50 in long, ceramic, fused silica, 1986
private collection
Night Ship/Five Stacks/the Frozen Sea,
50 in long, ceramic, fused silica, 1984
private collection
Night Ship/Wind Reef/the Frozen Sea,
50 in long, ceramic, fused silica, 1985
collection: Smithonian Institution
Night Ship/Orchard of the Sun,
52 in long, refractory cement, coal, carbon, wood, 1990, collection: Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
Night Ship/Carbon Forest,
52 in long, refractory cement, coal, cabon, wood, 1990, collection:artist
Night Ship/Carbon Reef,
72 in long, refractory cement, ceramic, coal, cabon, wood, 1990, collection:artist
Night Ship/Shaded Memory
52 in long, ceramic, wood, moss,1983-4
collection:UC Berkeley Art Museum
White Sea/Coral Orchid
52 in long, ceramic, wood, shells, white cement
1986, private collection


Night Ship/Lava Caves/the Frozen Sea,
50 in long, ceramic, fused silica, pumice with wood and acrylic vitrine / 1986 / private collection

Mills College, Oakland, CA / 1989
 


Night Ships / Night Ships/the Frozen Sea

Representative images of a series of ship/seascape/landscape sculptures completed from the 1980's thru the early-1990's. Nearly all of the Night Ships are housed in vitrines (examples shown in left and right images).
These are the later of over 50 ships and tableaus at approximately this scale, the majority made from the same mold, completed after the Exile Series of the mid-1970's.

Essay about the Night Ship/Frozen Sea series by Constance Lewallen: The 2nd Newport Biennial: The Bay Area, Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1986
Return: Shear Zones: Displacements/Permutations over 40+ Years of Ceramic Practice