Collection of Musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet, Paris
Born 1950, Shizuoka, Japan
After attending Japan Women's University, KATSUMATA CHIEKO received a grant in 1972 from the French government to study industrial design in Paris. While there, after a chance meeting with the well-known American potter Fance Franck (1931-2008), she was inspired to pursue a career in ceramics. Upon returning to Kyoto in 1978, she began to focus on the application of color to clay under the mentorship of Yanagihara Mutsuo. Instead of painting directly on her biomorphic, vegetal vessels, she covers the form with a thin piece of cloth through which she repeatedly applies color, leaving no trace of her brushwork. After repeated firings, followed by new applications of color, the surfaces take on a penetrating vivid color and soft textural appearance. She has exhibited extensively both in and outside of Japan, including France, Holland and the U.S.
Katsumata Chieko (b. 1950)
Blue and green biomorphic conical sculpture in the form of a pumpkin (akoda)
2019
Slip-glazed stoneware
11 ¼ x 16 ¼ x 13 ¼ in.
Inv# 11667
SOLD
Katsumata Chieko (b. 1950)
Biomorphic sculpture in the cinched form of a pumpkin in orange and green
2018
Slip-glazed stoneware
11 ¼ x 10 ½ in.
Inv# 11668
SOLD
Katsumata Chieko (b. 1950)
White chamotte-encrusted sculpture in the form of seaweed
2019
Glazed chamotte-encrusted stoneware
10 ½ x 9 1/8 in.
Inv# 11669
SOLD
Katsumata Chieko (b. 1950)
White chamotte-encrusted biomorphic sculpture in the form of coral
2018
Glazed chamotte-encrusted stoneware
10 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 10 in.
Inv# 10752
SOLD
Biomorphic sculpture in the form of a pumpkin with matte glazes in red and black
2015
Stoneware with colored slip glazes
11 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 13 in.
Inv# 9138
SOLD
