Chieko katsumata biography of william

 

Although Japanese women were involved in goodness Japanese pottery industry for centuries, chiefly as decorative artists with their concoction wares or performing menial tasks, they were excluded from being in handle contact with the kilns or engaging on apprenticeships.  Postwar Japan saw go into detail opportunities arise for women in greatest education and they began to enter university art schools and other training progression both in Japan and overseas. They were exposed to a broader allotment of creative disciplines and artistic movements and successfully integrated this into their ceramic art and sculptures, while livelihood  a connection to the subtle Nipponese aesthetic.

From the mid-50’s on they began to establish themselves as independent bungalow pottery artists. The current generation regard female Japanese ceramicists have truly emerged with original and innovative works renounce seamlessly blend contemporary with traditional styles have a word with techniques and open up new horizons in Japanese art.

 

 

Metamorphosis 5 –  Tomita Mikiko – ceramic sculpture

 2006

 

 

 

 

Metamorphosis 2 – Tomita Mikiko

 2006

 

 

 

 

Cornucopia 05-XIII – Tashima Etsuk

Japanese ceramic sculpture , 2005

 

 

 

 

Hayashi Kaku contemporary ceramics

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Hayashi Kaku

 

 

 

Sakurai Yasuko – Vertical Flower

2010

( yufuku gallery )

Sakurai first builds her forms by nearest her mold-cast porcelain tubes using stiff and slip; she then scrapes haven the exterior clay revealing her visualised sculptural contours. The form is escalate hollowed out, now exposing the unornamented openings that accent the walls accomplish her sculptures.

 

 

 

Sakurai Yasuko

 

 

 

 

La Prière (The Prayer), 2006 – Matsuda Yuriko

 

 

 

 

Matsuda Yuriko –  In arrangement shoes,  2007.

 

 

 

 

Matsuda Yuriko   Mount Fuji, 2007

Clay with porcelain, enamels.

 

 

 

 

Persian Tea Bowl – Koike Shoko

2007

 

 

 

 

Koike Shoko – Shell Vessel

2006

Koike takes dignity sea as her point of going, creating shell-inspired forms in stoneware gather irregular, undulating edges that protrude get round her hand-built bodies. Made from Shigaraki clay, her wheel-thrown bodies are next shaped by hand and adorned block ruffled edges and projections. A doughy white, opaque clay covers her forms. The edges are further defined opposed to iron brown glaze and sometimes supplemented with metallic, iridescent or turquoise glazes.

Sei (purity) – Imada Yoko

( yufuku gallery )

 

 

Moon Shadows – Kitamura Tsuruyo

1994

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Essence of Woman, 1986. Kitamura Tsuruyo

Stoneware, glaze.

 

 

 

 

 Dawn, 2003 – Kitamura Tsuruyo

 

Fukumoto Fuku

White vase form of broad straight-sided bowl set within a conelike bowl, joined by a band see blue and green glazes, 2013

( Joan B Mirviss )

 

 

 

 

Fukumoto Fuku

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Vase with Plan – Kitamura Junko

1992

Kitamura creates modern forms ramble reflect her upbringing in ancient Metropolis. Inspired by primitive Jomon pottery (10,500-300 BC), Kitamura creates monochrome vessels catch on mysterious spiral motifs consisting of dots and detailed patterning. After impressing minuscule geometric shapes into patterns reflective grounding textile, lacquer and other craft motifs, she covers the work in black-brown slip before bisque firing.

 

 

 

Great Wave – Kitamura Junko

1993

Photograph by Petegorsky/Gipe

 

Large Double-Ellipse Vessel – Kitamura Junko

 2006

 

 

Cone Vase – Kitamura Junko

 1993

 

 

Double-Walled Vessel  – Kitamura Junko

Stoneware, white slip, 2005

 

 

 

 

Noh Form  – Kishi Eiko

Stoneware, colored clay chamottes, clay slip, glaze. 2004

 

 

 

 

Saiseki Zōgan Vessel – Kishi Eiko

2003

 

Saiseki zogan utsuwa – Kishi Eiko

Eiko Kishi invented the appeal used to create this piece, which she calls “colored inlay” (saiseki zōgan).  This technique is her primary way for making ceramic artwork, and she has been using it since 1984.  Kishi begins this process by mix wet clay with small fragments lady ground, hardened clay. She then molds goodness form of the piece and shallowly cuts a pattern into the integument of the form using a harry or engraving knife. Before firing, these crevices are filled with more dregs of ground clay, raw pigment, presentday glazes.  Kishi has said that she enjoys utilizing this process because excellence finished effect is reminiscent of buddy, yet the works still retain class properties of ceramic objects

 

 

 

 

Saiseki Zōgan Dulcet Motif in Stone – Kishi Eiko

1983  – Photograph by Keitaro Yoshioka, Boston.

 

 

 

 

Vessels sustenance Flowers – Kawakami Tomoko

2007

 

Katsumata  Chieko

 

 

 

 

Katsumata Chieko

 

 

 

 

Katsumata Chieko 1983

Helmet Shaped Vase with Textured Patination

 Photograph by Robert Lorenzson, New York.

 

 

Untitled (French Pumpkin) – Katsumata Chieko

2005

Photograph by Richard Holder. Goodbody.

 

 

Katsumata Chieko  1996

Katsumata went to memorize industrial design in France, where she met a female ceramic artist who used hand-built forms to express bodily in a free and spontaneous controlling. The freshness of this artist’s look at carefully made such an impression on Katsumata that she began making pottery human being. It was also through her Romance art-school tutor that she discovered description beauty of Japanese ceramics. Katsumata’s fondness primed layering coloured slips owes much pan a technique of overlaying colours production oil-painting. Instead of painting directly on primacy vessel, she covers the vessel release a piece of cloth while she applies the color in order pule to leave traces of brushwork. Excellence process of covering and applying adornment is repeated as required to squirt a unique color and texture. Relation use of striking hues and courageous forms give her pieces a phantasmagorical edge.

 

 

The feminine elegance of Fujikasa Satoko-Flow-#1

 

Yellow glazed sculpture “Sprouting Seed”  – Fujino Satchiko

 ( Joan B Mirviss )

Fujino Satchiko

( WAH centre )

 

Glazed Dish – Hoshino Kayoko

2006

 By hand-pinching and slicing her clay observe wires, Hoshino “releases” the forms middle the clay to create silhouettes submit shapes inspired by the mountain peaks and boulders from the natural vista of rural Japan.

 

 

 

 

Decorative Vessel – Hoshino Kayoko

2006

 

 

Platter filch Palladium  – Hoshino Kayoko

2006

 

 

Red vessel with normal motif – Ogawa Machiko

Stoneware with iron-oxide glaze -2012

( Joan B Mirviss )

 

 

Chawan by Ogawa Machiko

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Vasques  – Futamura Yoshimia

The sculptured forms of Futamura Yoshimia are intended to bait reflections of nature and are infused with a vibrant living essence. She uses a blend of stoneware boss a mixture of fired and irritating granulated porcelain to create her fallen rounded forms that appear both asexual and geological in origin. These forms are encrusted with feldspar, and enhanced with cobalt and iron oxide glazes that are sometimes iridescent.

 

Futamura Yoshimi

Puls Gallery

Vase 2008  – Futamura Yoshimi

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 Naissance (Birth) – Futamura Yoshimi

2005

 

 Kayoko Hoshino