Joan B. Mirviss will present three consecutive exhibitions illuminating the world of post-war contemporary ceramics in Japan. This first show of over 40 works of art, focuses on the work of Kondô Yutaka (1932-83), a remarkable artist and gifted teacher who inspired many of today's established clay artists in Japan, who was the pivotal figure in his ceramic family before his untimely death. Drawn from the family's collection and offered for the first time, fourteen of his works will be seen in the context of his highly unusual heritage, both as a member of a Kyoto samurai family and as the son of the celebrated ceramist and designated Living National Treasure for cobalt blue-and-white (sometsuke) porcelain, Kondô Yûzo (1902-85).
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