Background on John Mason 

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John Mason was born in 1927 in  Madrid, Nebraska and died in Carlsbad, California in 2019. He created work over a four decades and had different phases of work. From 1950 to 1966 he created tall sculptures and wall reliefs. After 1966 to the early 1970's he created huge monolithic pieces that were extremely hard to fire as well as smaller crosses and X's. In the early 1970's he abandoned ceramics altogether and started to use commercially produced firebricks to create massive projects with extreme speed. However by the 1980's he returned to ceramics with a new focus on small hand built geometric pieces. 

Throughout his long life John Mason definitely had a style that focused more on the form then the color. He used a monochromatic color scheme and almost always created geometric pieces. His work helped transform ceramics from just a craft to a justifiable fine art.