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Torii Ippo (Japan), Spring Surf, 2011, madake bamboo, rattan
29.25 x 28 x 17 in
Torii Ippo (Japan), Spring Surf, 2011, madake bamboo, rattan
29.25 x 28 x 17 in
Torii Ippo (Japan), Floating Clouds, 1996, madake bamboo, rattan
15.5 x 12 x 7.75 in
Torii Ippo (Japan), Floating Clouds, 1996, madake bamboo, rattan
15.5 x 12 x 7.75 in
Isohi Setsuko (Japan), A Mirror Held to the Flower, 2020, madake bamboo, rattan
4.25 x 16.75 x 16.75 in
Isohi Setsuko (Japan), A Mirror Held to the Flower, 2020, madake bamboo, rattan
4.25 x 16.75 x 16.75 in
Exhibition
Torii Ippo
June 25-July 24, 2021
Opening Reception: Friday, June 25, 5-7pm
Torii Ippo (1930 – 2011) began his career in bamboo arts at the age of 20.
This exhibition is a retrospective, showcasing twelve masterworks, including Torii’s first Nitten submission, Bond, 1981, and the last piece he completed, Spring Tide, which was posthumously exhibited in the Modern Craft Artists Exhibition in 2012.
Torii’s work is in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens; De Young Museum; Asian Art Museum San Francisco; Nishio City Museum, Japan; and Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina."
Exhibition
Isohi Setsuko
July 30-August 28, 2021
Isohi Setsuko is only the third woman bamboo artist to gain full membership in the Japan Craft Arts Association. Isohi has received numerous awards and prizes over the course of her career, but one of her greatest achievements was winning Best of Show at the 2010 Japan Traditional Craft Arts Exhibition. Over the course of the 62-year history of this prestigious art competition, only three bamboo artists have ever won this prize.
“I have learned so much from my predecessors and senior artists,” Isohi explains. “In this solo show, I decided to include works that feature the arrow-pattern techniques I learned from Hayakawa-sensei, and the masawari (radial splitting of bamboo) technique I learned from Katsushiro-sensei to pay them my respect.” Isohi’s strength as an artist can be seen in the way she makes these techniques her own, incorporating them into her own precisionist, elegant style. Other works showcase the subtle sophistication of her quadruple layered hexagonal plaiting; each of the four layers is tinted darker than the last, creating a wonderful sense of depth.
The artist used to hate her given name, Setsuko, because of how old-fashioned it sounds. However, since it contains the Chinese character for “bamboo node,” she now likes her name. “I believe it was my destiny to become a bamboo artist.”
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