Jack Earl, Bill Escaping Potiphar’s wife, 1990, whiteware and oil paint.

“The real poet studies the world as it is: lovely, terrible, sensible, grotesque; and would ask for no other in its place. Humor is the final sign and seal of seriousness for it is a proof that reality is held in honor and in love.” -- Mark van Doren

Jack Earl
Bill Escaping Potiphar’s wife, 1990, whiteware and oil paint.

“Jack Earl makes two kinds of small-scale porcelain sculpture. The fist type is realistic and humorous; the other , fantastic and enigmatic. His realistic pieces concern ordinary people in everyday settings and situations.”
--Art in America, Nov/Dec 1978