Cavin-Morris Gallery is pleased to announce Uncontained Excitement: Woven Sculpture from Japan, an exhibition opening June 28th, 2012 which will present the work of 14 sculptors who have expanded and veered from traditional craft, making sculpture rooted in basketry, but using organic and inorganic materials not part of the basket heritage of Japan. Few of these works are strictly functional. None of the artists have been previously shown in the United States. This group represents the second, third and fourth generation of artists breaking away from traditional bamboo forms, who use materials ranging from palm fronds to sheets of industrial plastic and paper packing tape. Some of the artists were inspired by, or were students of Chizu Sekiguchi, who herself was inspired by Hisako Sekijima (not in the exhibition) who came to the US in the late 1970’s and was herself inspired to push the envelope by the work of Ed Rossbach, John McQueen, and Kay Sekimachi. Rossbach was one of the first artists to recognize and push the best of the field of New Basketry as fine Contemporary Art. This is still not an easy path in either the East or West. This exhibition allows a group of smaller works to speak volumes for these new sculptural forms, astonishing in their wide range and conceptual complexity. Included will be: Michiko Fukai, Yasuko Hoshino, Sachiko Itabashi, Ritsuko Jinnouchi, Mieko Kawase, Yukari Kikuchi, Shigeru Matsuyama, Akiko Mio, Hiroko Okuno, Chizu Sekiguchi, Shizuko Takahashi, Mayumi Tsukuda, Nobuko Ueda, and Emiko Yoshiya.
For further information please contact Shari Cavin, Randall Morris, or Mimi Kano at 212.226.3768 or info@cavinmorris.com. |
