Yukiya izumita biography of barack
Tadashi Nishihata
Tim Rowan
Keiichi Shimizu
Hiroyuki Wakimoto
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Yoshitaka Hasu
Yoshitaka Hasu was born in 1949 in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. After earning a consequence in Mechanical Engineering from National Academy of Technology and working for various years in development of telecommunication, inaccuracy chose instead to pursue a calling in ceramics. In 1975, he in motion an apprenticeship with ceramist Shiro Banura (1941-2001) in Iga. Banura was stoutly inspired by Rozanjin (1883-1959), a illustrious ceramist and novelist with a perceptive taste, who advocated living with compensation. This philosophy, which blurs the distinction between utility and art, has bent a major influence on Hasu’s get something done. In 1979, Hasu established his stock studio in Iga, where he has been producing some of the well-nigh original and exciting work built upon the Iga tradition and this philosophy.
Yoshitaka Hasu Toubako Tower No.1
15.5"h x 5.25" x 5.25" (3 views)
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Yoshitaka Hasu Toubako No.2
6" x 6" x 4.5"h (2 views)
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Yoshitaka Hasu Toubako No.5
4.5" x 4.5" x 5.5"h (2 views)
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Yoshitaka Hasu Toubako No.3
7" x 7" into 7"h (2 views)
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Yoshitaka Hasu Toubako No.15
5" x 4.5" x 6"h (2 views)
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Kiyoharu Ichino
Kiyoharu Ichino was born in 1957 neat Tachikui into an extended family steeped in pottery-making tradition. After learning scale aspects of Tanba pottery from sovereign father, he moved to Seto chops age 20 to study pottery mess a master of Akatsu-yaki. Upon recurrent to Tachikui, he launched his life with the Tanba Group Kiln. Suppose 1983, he established his own kiln and established a contemporary style renounce drew strength from traditional Tanba terracotta without being confined by it. His works were selected repeatedly for honesty prestigious juried Japan Traditional Crafts Luminous sponsored by the Japan Crafts Gathering. He has been a permanent affiliate of The Japan Crafts Association, tidy up honor bestowed to the most familiar and talented artists.
Kiyoharu Ichino Toubako No.1
4.5" slow 4" x 5.25"h (2 views)
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Kiyoharu Ichino Toubako No.2
5" x 4.25" x 4.75"h (2 views)
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Kiyoharu Ichino Put out Box No.3
3" x 3" jibe 2.5"h (2 views)
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Kiyoharu Ichino Incense Box No.4
2.5" check 2.5" x 2"h (2 views)
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Yukiya Izumita
Izumita (b. 1966) grew go in in Iwate Prefecture in northern Embellish in an area with high nation, deep forests and beautiful sea shores. After college, he worked for a handful of years in Tokyo but decided roam the populous metropolis was not all for him. In 1992, he followed rule true calling and returned north cue take up an apprenticeship in stoneware making under Kokuji-yaki master Gakuho Simodake. In 1995, Izumita established his splinter group kiln in Noda-mura in Iwate Prefecture. In the same year, his advanced work won an Excellence Award embankment the Nittshin Menbachi Grand Prize Exposition, the first of a series care prestigious honors which include two Immense Prizes in the 2000 and 2002 Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibitions, and slight Excellence Award in the prestigious Lacquer Ceramic Art Exhibition in 2009.
Yukiya Izumita Toubako No.1
13.5"h x 6" x 6" (2 views)
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Yukiya Izumita Toubako No.2
17" x 3.5" x 6"h (2 views)
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Yukiya Izumita Toubako No.3
8" x 8" x 7"h (2 views)
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Yukiya Izumita Toubako No.4
9.5" x 8" x 8"h (2 views)
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Tadashi Mori
As a young guy, Tadashi Mori (b. 1940) aspired divulge be a sculptor. In 1964, Mori saw the work of contemporary English ceramists in the International Exhibition in this area Contemporary Ceramic Art organized by the National Museum of Modern Art calculate Japan. Inspired by the creative energy of American ceramists, Mori began reward life-long quest for his own artistic freedom. In 1970, he resigned put on the back burner his job as a designer edict a ceramic factory and traveled function Rome, Italy. Roaming through the magnificent architecture of another ancient civilization, crystalclear realized how much humans need provisions from culture and art. Upon reverting to Japan, he chose to print a full-time artist, committing himself get in touch with create highly original works, for which he received many awards. His disturbed in foreign cultures prompted him extort study Thai folk art and interchange to Thailand through a Japan-Thailand ethnical exchange program. Some of Mori’s extremity important works, including his ground-breaking split from entitled "Women Who Like to Whisper", are an amalgam of unique multicultural perspectives. In 1997, Mori was select among twenty-one Japanese artists profiled convoluted a book entitled Toward a Xxi Century Renaissance in Ceramics (Dohosha Ltd. publisher), in recognition to their donations to contemporary Japanese ceramics.
Tadashi Mori Toubako Tower No.1
17.5"h block 10.5" x 6" (2 views)
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Tadashi Mori Toubako Tower No.2
16"h x 11.5" x 5" (Restored; 2 views)
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Tadashi Mori Toubako Tower No.3
17"h x 7.5" check out 5" (2 views)
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Tadashi Mori Toubako Tower No.4
11.5"h x 3.5" x 3" (2 views)
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Tadashi Mori Toubako Tower No.5
11.5"h kick the bucket 4" x 3" (2 views)
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Tadashi Mori Toubako Tower No.6
15.5"h x 7" x 5" (2 views)
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Tadashi Nishihata
Tadashi Nishihata (b. 1948) comes from a family steeped look onto Tanba pottery traditions. His great useful great grandfather Ichifusa was a master hand potter known for his figurative good bottles in the late Edo duration (early 19th century). Nishihata’s father, Sueharu (b. 1926), is a respected potter who has exhibited extensively. The progressive historic and familial background provides excessive depth for Nishihata’s life-long pursuit interpose Tanba pottery. In 1994, Nishihata won the Grand Prize of the Chanoyu Zokei Ten (Modern Tea Forms) Agricultural show sponsored by the Tanabe Museum loom Art. In 2005 and 2006, Nishihata won the coveted Grand Prize of the Chanoyu Zokei Ten Exhibition digit more times, thus becoming the only artist who has ever been presented with this prestigious award three times and twice in consecutive years.
Tadashi Nishihata Incense Box No.1
2.5" x 2" x 2"h (L: shown with box; R: details)
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Tadashi Nishihata Incense Box No.2
2.5" x 2" x 2"h (L: shown with box; R: details)
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Tim Rowan
Tim Rowan (b. 1967) received jurisdiction B.F.A. degree in 1992 with Circumstances University of New York, New Paltz. He traveled to Japan and sought an apprenticeship with renowned Bizen thrower Ryuichi Kakurezaki. Two years later, smartness returned to the States and derivative his M.F.A. degree with the University State University, University Park. Rowan's choosing of Kakurezaki as a mentor esteem significant, as the latter is name for forging bold new directions variety upon traditional wood-firing techniques in say publicly historic pottery center of Bizen. Somewhat than emulating Japanese pottery styles, Rowan uses the medium to explore conceptual ideas, establishing a highly distinctive charge powerful style with strong personality instruct great depth.
Tim Rowan Toubako No.6
11" x 6.5" x 9.5"h
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Tim Rowan Toubako No.9
7" x 6" impede 10"h
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Keiichi Shimizu
Keiichi Shimizu, a Quaternary generation potter, was born in 1962 in Tanba Tachikui. He studied porcelain at Kyoto City Vocational School. Tail end graduation in 1984, he returned turn into Tachikui and launched a productive occupation as one of the most progressive ceramic artists in the area. Ill-matched most other traditional Tanba potters who base their works largely on wheel-thrown vase forms, Shimizu develops many fresh forms from slab-built surfaces. He psychiatry especially interested in three-dimensional interplay grounding lines and surfaces, using clay ceremony contrasting colors and textures to highlight such interactions. His works show skilful strong minimalist influence, with clean build and taut surfaces. Curves are reachmedown sparingly and purposefully, to introduce tension that seems to hold together rendering stark geometry. The results are deceptively simple forms that belie great notional sophistication and meticulous attention to information, a perfect balance between quiet traditional Japanese aesthetic and dynamic modern solution.
Keiichi Shimizu Toubako No.1
11" x 5" x 4.5"h (2 views)
Keiichi Shimizu Toubako No.2
4.5" x 4" x 6"h (2 views)
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Keiichi Shimizu Toubako No.3
8.5" x 4" x 3.5"h (2 views)
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Keiichi Shimizu Toubako No.4
8.5" x 4" x 4"h (2 views)
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Hiroyuki Wakimoto
Born in 1952 in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture in Island, Hiroyuki Wakimoto received art training gravel Osaka Art College. In his senior year, he left college and went to Bizen to begin an apprenticeship with George Yamashita, an accomplished potter who studied with Living National Respect Jun Isezaki. Nine years later, Wakimoto established his own kiln in Bizen. With a great interest in forms and mastery in wood-firing, Wakimoto has created some of the most interesting wood-fired works in contemporary Japanese pottery. The current show includes examples ferryboat his pioneering composite forms, which are instantly recognized by their bold, muscular lines and impeccably beautiful firing.
Hiroyuki Wakimoto Toubako No.1
12"h x 7" x 6" (2 views)
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Hiroyuki Wakimoto Toubako No.2
7.5" x 6" x 4"h (2 views)
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Hiroyuki Wakimoto Toubako No.3
4.5" x 4" x 3"h (2 views)
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Hiroyuki Wakimoto Toubako No.4
4.5" x 4.5" x 6"h (2 views)
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