Fukami Sueharu, Ki no toki (Resolute Spirit), 2002, porcelain with seihakuji glaze, on a walnut base, height including base 68 in. (173 cm)

Porcelain Sculptures by Fukami Sueharu
September 12 – October 25, 2025
8 East 67th Street, NYC

Thomsen Gallery is delighted to feature their September Asia Week exhibition of porcelain works by Fukami Sueharu, widely regarded as one of the greatest living ceramic artists of Japan.

Porcelain Sculptures by Fukami Sueharu, their fourth solo exhibition of the artist, includes 20 works from the 1970s to today, including his signature large vertical and horizontal sculptures.

Born into a family of potters in Kyoto in 1947, Fukami mastered the medium of clay from a young age and strove to go beyond traditional pottery, moving on to cultivate, as his work and techniques testify, his own signature style. Making innovative use of a technique involving injecting liquid porcelain into a plaster mold at high pressure, Fukami creates sublime sculptures with lustrous surfaces and soaring forms. Finished using a bluish- white glaze, also known as seihakuji, originating from 11th century China, the resulting pieces have an ethereal quality which this show serves to illuminate.

They look forward to welcoming you to the gallery soon!

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