Vessel with tapered base and natural ash glaze in gray and light green tones, 2008
Stoneware with Natural ash glaze
18 x 13 1/2 in.
Inv# 5724
$ 5,800
Stoneware with Natural ash glaze
18 x 13 1/2 in.
Inv# 5724
$ 5,800
Artist Bio
Tsujimura Kai is the second son of one of the most gifted potters active in Japan today, Tsujimura Shirô. Despite his youth, Kai has inherited from his father a great facility with the wheel and a magician’s touch in his ash-glazing resulting from his command of the process of wood-burning firings. Influenced by Momoyama era aesthetics, he creates powerful functional vessels that are both dramatic and sensual. Unlike most of his contemporaries, who closely control the firing process, Kai delights in the unexpected and incorporates chance into his creative process. His oeuvre includes in addition to ash-glazed vessels, ceramics with translucent glaze (egarasu) as well as white slip glaze (kohiki).
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1976 Born in Nara Prefecture
1994 Upon graduating from high school, starts his career as ceramicist studying under his father, Tsujimura Shirô
2000 Opened own kiln in Sakurai city, Nara Prefecture and started to work independently
2001 First solo exhibition at Utsuwa Nanohana Gallery, Odawara city, Kanagawa
2003 Solo show at Gallery Ippodô, Tokyo
2004 Solo show at Tachikichi Gallery, Kyôto
Solo show in Osaka
2006 Solo show at Tachikichi Gallery, Kyôto
2007 Work enters the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
2008 Solo show at Ippodo Gallery
2008 Patterns of Summer: Ash-glazed Japanese Ceramics, Joan B. Mirviss Ltd, New York
Public Collections:
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Gallery Exhibitions
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Summer 2010
Opening Reception on Wednesday, June 9th 6 - 8 pm Viewing hours: Monday - Friday 11 - 5pm and by appointment
Summer 2010
Opening Reception on Wednesday, June 9th 6 - 8 pm Viewing hours: Monday - Friday 11 - 5pm and by appointment
Joan B Mirviss LTD at SOFA:WEST (Santa Fe)
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Opening Night Preview: Wed, July 7th 6:30 – 9 pm VIP Pass holders only Visiting dates and times: Thurs, July 8th – Sun, July 11th 12 – 6 pm Daily Santa Fe Convention Center 201 W. Marcy Street Santa Fe, NM 87501 (505) 955-6200
Booth 401
Opening Night Preview: Wed, July 7th 6:30 – 9 pm VIP Pass holders only Visiting dates and times: Thurs, July 8th – Sun, July 11th 12 – 6 pm Daily Santa Fe Convention Center 201 W. Marcy Street Santa Fe, NM 87501 (505) 955-6200
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