Born of Fire: Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramic Artists
On view January 30, 2021 - January 30, 2022 at the Crow Museum of Asian Art
This exhibition travelled to Museums at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA and was on view February 1-April 29, 2023 (Learn more here), and to Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, OH, and was on view June 24-September 17, 2023 (Learn more here)
Women have traditionally played only a minor role in Japan's long history in clay. This exhibition features a selection of works by living emerging and internationally established Japanese women ceramic artists. Pioneering new forms and technical and aesthetic innovations in the medium, these remarkable artists are breaking barriers and forging new ways of creating and thinking about ceramics that reflect changes occurring in contemporary Japanese art and society. The works express the influence of nature, innovations in ceramic making techniques, and a diverse array of practices.
This exhibition draws from the collection of Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz, who have amassed an important encyclopedic collection of major Japanese modern and contemporary ceramics. Their collection of over 1,000 works is the largest, public or private, of contemporary Japanese ceramics outside of Japan.
Born of Fire: Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramic Artists is organized by the Crow Museum of Asian Art and curated by Jacqueline Chao.
Exhibition-related Press:
Kelsey Goodwin, “Lighting a Fire”, The Columns at Washington and Lee University, March 27, 2023 (Read here)
Header Image: Fukumoto Fuku (b. 1973), Tsukikage (Moonlight), 2012. Set of three blue and teal glazed porcelain bowls stacked unevenly and glazed fused. 5 x 11 3/8 x 11 3/8 in. (12.5 x 29 cm). Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz Collection. Photo: Mike Lundgren; Courtesy of Phoenix Art Museum.
Installation photography by Chad Redmon, Courtesy of the Crow Museum of Asian Art.
