L-R: Oshiyama Motoko (born 1957), Kakuhanmon Vase “Shunen” (Spring Festival), 2022, silver, brass, shakudo, and copper, H. 15 5/8 x W. 5 3/4 x Dia. 2 3/8 in. (39.7 x 14.5 x 8.5 cm), Onishi Gallery and Ogawa Machiko (born 1946), Akai utsuwa, “Red Vessel”, 2021, unglazed porcelain and stoneware with iron-oxide glaze, 16 x 13 3/4 in., Joan B Mirviss LTD

RED EARTH: New Work by Ogawa Machiko, Joan B Mirviss LTD
Concludes October 28, 2022

Ogawa Machiko is one of the most celebrated ceramic artists today, male or female. She won the Japan Ceramics Society Award in 2000 and their Gold Prize in 2018—one of only three women to be so honored by this prestigious institution. Evoking the geological cycles that have long informed her works, RED EARTH brings this venerated artist full circle to her origins. Her latest solo exhibition at Joan B Mirviss LTD is inspired by the Japanese concept of the vessel, utsuwa, as well as by the unique red-colored earth of Burkina Faso, West Africa, where she lived as a young woman for several years.

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Heated Colors, Hammered Forms: Female Metal Artists of Japan, Onishi Gallery
Concludes October 29, 2022

Onishi Gallery is proud to feature the best of Japanese metalwork and represents many of its leading contemporary practitioners, including nine who have been designated Living National Treasures. Our September exhibition, Heated Colors, Hammered Forms: Female Metal Artists of Japan, turns the spotlight on the contribution made by women to the revival of this demanding art form, highlighting four female artists who are distinct in their personal modes of expression, but united in their embrace and adaptation of traditional methods.

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