
White Form
2018
Glazed stoneware
20 3/4 x 16 7/8 x 17 inches
Inv# 10804
SOLD
White shell-shaped water jar with flaring edges, incised surface patterning and pooling glass glaze on lid
2015
Glazed stoneware
7 3/4 x 11 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.
Inv# 9282
SOLD
Shell-shaped mid-scaled sculpture with white and silver glazes
2014
Glazed stoneware
10 1/4 x 13 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.
SOLD
Pleated round shell-shaped sculpture
2013
Glazed stoneware with silver glaze
11 x 16 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches
Inv# 8177
SOLD
Large white flower-shaped vessel
2008
Stoneware with white glaze and glass glaze in interior cavity
22 x 23 5/8 inches
Inv# 6516
SOLD
As one of the first female graduates from the prestigious ceramics department of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Koike Shoko is among the very few women ceramists of her generation to support herself as a studio-artist. In so doing, she has become one of the most recognized contemporary female ceramists in Japan with works in museum collections throughout the world. Koike draws inspiration from the sea, creating shell-inspired sculptural forms in shigaraki stoneware with irregular, undulating, pinched, ruffled edges that protrude from her hand-built and wheel-thrown bodies. A creamy white, opaque glaze covers her forms and the edges are further accentuated with brown iron glaze and sometimes supplemented with metallic, iridescent or turquoise glazes.