Futamura Yoshimi: COLLAPSE / REBIRTH II

Collapse / Rebirth II
Sculpture by Fujino Sachiko and Futamura Yoshimi
September - October 2025
 

In conjunction with Asia Week New York this September, we are thrilled to announce Collapse / Rebirth II, the second conjoint solo exhibition by renowned female ceramists, Fujino Sachiko (b. 1950) and Futamura Yoshimi (b. 1959). While each artist creates works that balance organic spontaneity with deliberate control, their approaches could not be more distinct. In Fujino’s body of work, delicately ruffled, petal-like forms emerge from calculated and geometrical foundations. Futamura treats the surfaces of textured and crevassed biomorphic sculptures with porcelain slip, which she carefully manipulates into crackled striations that evoke an array of natural imagery.

Nearly a decade after the 2016 exhibition that first placed these artists in conversation, Collapse / Rebirth II provides an opportunity to experience these artists’ evolving approaches to clay as a medium of expression.

FUTAMURA YOSHIMI (b. 1959)

A native of Nagoya, Futamura Yoshimi first studied ceramics at the Seto School of Ceramics, where she trained in the region’s historical ceramic techniques. However, it was after moving to Paris in 1986 that she developed her unique technique and aesthetic. She applies porcelain slip to the surface of her powerful, roughly hewn forms before manipulating the clay from the inside in order to create her signature striated and crevassed surface texture.

Both artists’ work can be found in museum collections internationally, including the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Brooklyn Museum; Minneapolis Institute of Art; and Musée Guimet, Paris. They have both also been featured in the traveling exhibition, Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan.