
Ogawa Machiko returns to Joan B Mirviss, LTD for her second solo exhibition, "Lunar Fragments". She presents a new body of work featuring boulder-like sculptures of unglazed porcelain with translucent, crystallized formed glass. The artist draws her inspiration for these elemental, yet strikingly modern pieces from a life-long interest in rocks and minerals. In another series, her forms suggest deconstructed and broken vessel fragments and contain interior pools of clear blue glass. Renown for her technical skill, she blends feldspar, silica, and glass with porcelain and stoneware in her sculptural works. Her teabowls likewise demonstrate her acumen with materials with their bold, unctuous and varied glazes poured over rough, powerful stoneware forms.
A pioneer since the beginning of her artistic career, Ogawa was the first woman admitted to the prestigious ceramic department at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music and is one of only six women to be awarded the Japanese Ceramic Society Prize since its inception is 1954. A testament to her critical success, Ogawa has already been the focus of two major Japanese museum career retrospectives: Today’s Artists VIII: Ogawa Machiko Li2O・NaO・Cao・Al2O3・SiO2 Breathing Bubbles, in 2002 at Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama and Umaretate no utsuwa (Archetypical Vessels), in 2011 at Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi. Lunar Fragments will first be shown at Salon: Art + Design (November 13-17) and thereafter at Joan B. Mirviss LTD (November 24- December 19)
SALON ART + DESIGN
Park Avenue Armory (at 66th Street) New York, NY
Joan B Mirviss Ltd. November 24 – December 19