Toshiko Takaezu: The Art of Clay

 

Toshiko Takaezu: The Art of Clay was first organized by the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles in 2005. Bringing the exhibition to Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art is a project that has been over a year in the making and has involved many individuals and institutions. Green Hill’s staff, board, and volunteers all felt strongly that the opportunity to host this stunning exhibition which was curated by Karin Higa, Senior Curator of Art of the Japanese American National Museum, was a chance to be seized. The encouragement and assistance that Karin Higa and her colleagues at JANM have demonstrated throughout this undertaking has been invaluable to bringing Toshiko Takaezu’s art back to North Carolina after a long absence.

The exhibition includes exceptional examples of Takaezu’s distinctive sculptural forms. On view are works such as the life size stoneware Fuyu (1996) and the glazed porcelain Three Graces (2002) which exemplify Takaezu’s unique distillation of Eastern and Western artistic traditions. Green Hill’s exhibition will present several woven textiles by Takaezu not included in the Los Angeles exhibition. It is also augmented by a selection of ceramic and stoneware forms presented in Green Hill’s window gallery which reflect Takaezu’s unparalleled mastery of glaze techniques and surface treatments. These works have been loaned by the Charles Cowles Gallery in New York. Charles Cowles, Mary Dohne, and the staff of the gallery all are thanked for making this addition to the Green Hill exhibition possible.

Curated by Edie Carpenter

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To view additional information related to the exhibition, click HERE.