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Yoshikawa Masamichi's Kayō (Gorgeous Effigy), a light blue gradient porcelain cube textured with small divots. Two rectangles jut out from the left and right corners, with the far corner rising higher than the rest. The base flares out giving it a cloud like appearance

Kayō (Gorgeous Effigy), 2018, Yoshikawa Masamichi (b. 1946), Japan, glazed porcelain, Courtesy of Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz, L9.2020:14 © Yoshikawa Masamichi. Photography by Richard Goodbody courtesy of Joan B Mirviss LTD.

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Bold Gestures: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics

December 15, 2020­–January 2, 2022 | Gallery 136

 

The latest in an ongoing rotation of loaned and recently accessioned Japanese ceramics, this new display features the work of artists who have mastered techniques from the traditional to the radical to achieve artistic revelations. Their bold gestures push the material and conceptual boundaries of the medium.