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A Moment in Time: Akiyama Yō and Kitamura Junko / Joan B Mirviss, New York

May 15, 2015
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A Moment in Time: Akiyama Yō and Kitamura Junko / Joan B Mirviss, New York
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A Moment in Time: Akiyama Yō and Kitamura Junko at Joan B Mirviss, New York
April 27 – May 29, 2015

Joan B Mirviss LTD is thrilled to present the first US joint-exhibition of critically acclaimed clay artists Akiyama Yō and Kitamura Junko. Featuring twenty dynamic works ranging from delicately inlaid vessels to large-scale sculptural abstractions, this important exhibition highlights the decidedly different yet equally compelling styles of the celebrated Kyoto-based artistic couple. This showing explores each artist’s response to the primary and tactile connotations of clay as a medium and examine their mutual considerations on destruction, renewal and metamorphosis.

A dominating force in Japanese contemporary art, Akiyama Yō (b 1953) continues to gain global recognition for his powerful sculptural works manifested through a passionate engagement with the physicality of clay. Few artists have done more in recent years to bring contemporary Japanese ceramic arts to global attention. His signature unglazed, fractured forms have established him at the forefront of international contemporary sculpture through sold-out solo exhibitions and museum acquisitions spanning East to West.

“Akiyama’s ceramic creations allude to the transformations that have sculpted the earth.”
(Robert Mintz, Chief Curator and Curator of Asian Art, Walters Art Museum, 2014)

Returning to Joan B Mirviss for a third time following his sold-out solo exhibitions in 2011 and 2007, Akiyama presents new works of varying scale created specifically for this show. These powerful unglazed stoneware forms, imbedded with iron filings, appear as if extracted from the earth’s core. Evoking windswept rock or cooled magma, Akiyama’s unique surface treatments seem to capture forms as if in a perpetual state of destruction and regeneration, leading viewers on a visual journey from the beginning of the earth through the end of time.

Akiyama Yō’s works grace many important collections and museums around the world, including: Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia; Faenza International Ceramic Museum, Italy; Musée national de Céramique de Sèvres, France; National Museums of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo; Museum, Honolulu; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo; and Victoria & Albert Museum, London. He currently serves as the chairman of the prestigious ceramics department at Kyoto City University of Arts.

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A key figure in an artistic sphere that is increasingly assuming center stage, Kitamura Junko (b 1956), like fellow pioneering female Japanese ceramicists Koike Shōko, Katsumata Chieko, and Ogawa Machiko, creates conceptually daring works far beyond traditional ties to functionality. Part of two groundbreaking US exhibitions on Japanese ceramics, Contemporary Ceramics for the New Century in 2005 at the MFA Boston and 2009’s Smith College Museum of Fine Art’s celebrated, Touch Fire: Contemporary Ceramics by Women Artists, Kitamura has solidified her standing among the leaders of contemporary clay art.

Presented in a range of dramatic new profiles, works in this exhibition feature Kitamura’s signature, intricate lace-like patterns that appear to arise and break away in rippling, wave-like designs in white slip inlay juxtaposed against a dark, matte, black slip-covered body. These miniscule concentric dots and geometric punchings meld together with adjoining configurations to make intricate designs suggesting textile patterns, snowflakes or celestial constellations.

“(Kitamura’s) tiny stamped motifs accumulate to form clusters and as they repeat—perhaps already hinting at a specific design. They eventually lose their regularity and dissolve into a kind of froth, an organic flux from which the overall pattern emerges.” (Soaring Voices, Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists, Shigaraki Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, 2007)

Kitamura Junko’s works have been featured in solo and group exhibitions across the globe and are in the permanent collections of: British Museum, London; Brooklyn Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Kyoto; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Smithsonian, Washington DC, among many others.

Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday, 11am – 6pm.

Contact
info@mirviss.com
(212) 799-4021

Joan B Mirviss Gallery
39 East 78th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10075
United States

Above: (first image) Akiyama Yō, Untitled MV-151, 2015, Unglazed stoneware fired in a cool reduction atmosphere, 11 ¾ x 16 x 14 ¾ inches / 30 x 41 x 37.5 cm. Photo by Fukunaga Kazuo.
(second image) Kitamura Junko, Vessel 15-A, 2015, Stoneware with black slip and white slip inlay, 9 ¾ x 16 ½ x 16 ½ inches / 25 x 42 x 42 cm. Photo by Fukunaga Kazuo.

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