Installation view of Expanding Earth: New Works by Yukiya Izumita at Ippodo Gallery

Expanding Earth: New Works by Yukiya Izumita
Closing Thursday, October 3, 2024
32 East 67th St, 3rd Fl, NYC

This the final week to experience Expanding Earth: New Works by Yukiya Izumita, featuring 40 of the artist’s latest creations, including laminate-layered sculptures, flat-folded vases, and tea bowls at Ippodo Gallery.

From his studio in Iwate Prefecture in Japan’s north-east Tohoku region, Izumita hand-collects coastal clay and driftwood, incorporating materials washed ashore into his art. The sea-soaked elements add a rustic, salt-fired quality to his works, which are coated in rare manganese glaze. His sculptures achieve a delicate, weightless appearance, despite being made from heavy clay, shaped with precision on paper sheets. By blending salt-rich clay with Chamotte, he mimics the rugged textures and colors of Iwate’s coastal cliffs, evoking the passage of time.⁠ Izumita’s unseen sceneries of earthen formations demonstrate his capacity to push the physical constraints of hand-built ceramic and miraculously defy the laws of gravity withstanding the intensity of the anagama tunnel-kiln fire.

Izumita’s ceramics are held in the permeant collections of world-class collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and Minneapolis Institute of Art. In Japan, Izumita is the recipient of accolades including the Excellence Award at the 20th Biennial Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition in 2009 and the Asahi Ceramic Exhibition Grand Prix in 2000 and 2002.

Ippodo Gallery and Yukiya Izumita welcome a collaboration with Bronze Craft Foundry to cast a limited edition of sculptures from the artist’s original ceramic forms, which will also be included in the exhibition.

Don’t miss the chance to see these marvelous sculptures in person before the exhibition closes on Thursday, October 3rd!

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