Modern clay art

Basic shapes of my sculptures: Metamorphic forms like crystals, cubes and stars.

Specializing in Japanese fine art for over forty years, Joan B Mirviss LTD features Japanese screens and scrolls, woodblock prints (ukiyo-e), and most prominently, modern and contemporary Japanese ceramics at its Madison Avenue gallery. Joan B Mirviss LTD continues to bring audiences in New York, around the country and abroad, the very best in Japanese fine art, featuring solo and collaborative shows by important ceramists and thematic exhibitions of paintings, screens, prints and ceramics…

now on view at musée LaM, isamu noguchi's multi-disciplinary works blended traditional craft with groundbreaking modernity.

Korean sculptor Cha Jong-Rye works with wood as if it were clay or paint. She layers and sands hundreds of delicate wood pieces to create pockmarked canvases, threatening beds of thorns, or wall-sized recreations of crumpled cloth napkins. Jong-Rye completed her graduate work at Ewha Women’s University in Seoul in 1996 and has had numerous group exhibits and five solo shows, her latest at the Sungkok Art Museum.

Monolithic abstract contemporary paleolithic sculpture

Kumakura Junkichi Clay dimensions and Zen One of the underlying traditions that permeates life in Japan, arising from their culture and Zen Buddhist/Shinto influences is mindfulness, contemplation and a deep respect for nature and its rhythms. Objects in the process of decay or conception are considered to be more evocative then in full bloom because they reinforce the sense of transience. This is encapsulated by the deliberate attention given to oppositional forces, created for example…