Dec.31
Japanese Women Artists You Should Know: Meet Eugénie O’Kin
Dec.31
By Alice Gordenker There was a Japanese female artist active in Paris in the early decades of the 20th century but chances are you’ve never heard of her. It doesn’t help that most of her work remains in private hands, or that she called herself by several different names. But the carved bowls, vases and…
Nov.14
Contemporary glass artist Miya Kitamura
Nov.14
Dasha Klyachko
Contemporary glass artist Miya Kitamura Valuing beauty in the everyday object By Dasha Klyachko Miya Kitamura was born into a family of traditional ceramic artists in Kyoto and was making ceramics from an early age. Though she studied ceramics in high school and college, and was expected to take over the family business, Kitamura felt…
Sept.18
Glass artist brings Japanese sensibility to Venetian lace technique: Ushio Konishi
Sept.18
Dasha Klyachko
One of Japan’s more established contemporary glass artists, Ushio Konishi, is a world leader in the Venetian lace glass technique. This involves creating glass rods with a ‘lace’ pattern before blowing and shaping the final piece. The rods, also known as glass canes, are made by skillfully and delicately twisting molten glass of different colours,…
Aug.15
Contemporary Glass Artist Takeshi Sano
Aug.15
by Dasha Klyachko, specialist in Japanese contemporary glass Contemporary glass art combined with Japanese sensibility philosophy and aesthetic Although records show that…
Jan.18
HORIKI Eriko: Pioneer on the Washi Frontier
Jan.18
Contemporary Art
Traditional handmade washi paper can be found everywhere in Japan, from name cards to beautiful wrapping paper. But washi as large format installation art, using paper tapestries up to 50 feet long, brings this ancient process to a new artistic level altogether.