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Touching Stone Gallery Santa Fe New Mexico USA
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Touching Stone Gallery Santa Fe New Mexico USA
www.touchingstone.com Email: director@touchingstone.com
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Fusako Akao Memory of Time May 4 - 30, 2012 Meet the artist on May 11, 10 am - noon Read about the show in May 4 issue of Pasatiempo , the New Mexican's Weekly Art & Culture Magazine |
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Fusako Akao 赤尾ふさこ : Memory of Time Touching Stone Gallery is privileged to introduce an exciting woman ceramic artist, Fusako Akao, whose conceptual sculptural work brings a unique perspective to contemporary Japanese ceramics.Fusako Akao (b. 1950) studied ceramic art in Gifu National University. After graduation, she sought further training with renowned contemporary ceramist Kiyoyuki Kato in Seto, who had a profound influence on her artistic philosophy and development. Traditionally, Japanese pottery is based largely on functional forms. By contrast, Akao emphasizes conceptual ideas and inspiration. One of her earliest work entitled Ruins won the Grand Prize in Asahi Ceramic Exhibition in 1987, setting a direction towards conceptual art for her productive career. Akao’s work is a tribute to nature rather than an imitation of its beauty. She wants to capture the fleeting inspiring moments of what she calls ‘instants of twinkles’ that she has experienced in nature. It is important for her to choose clay as her medium. She sees the natural world as a slice in time in eons of a changing process. She believes every component in nature - each soil particle, each drop of water - holds memories of its creation. Her task as an artist is to reveal the innate beauty in her medium, as she turns clay into works of art. Akao's style is powerful and dynamic. Her juxtaposing angles and surfaces are carved by intuition rather than design. She sculpts with swift, forceful faceting movements, as if to uncover hidden memories in the clay. She uses various traditional glazes - black and green Oribe, white ash - to transform her work into beautiful landscapes that evoke memories of jagged mountains, turquoise streams, or luminous ice crystals. In a field dominated by men, Akao never wavers from her vision, creating many original forms throughout her career. The current show, entitled Memory of Time, is the first time her works are shown in the U.S. The show features over twenty sculptural pieces, each a remembrance of an inspiring moment. It is only appropriate that this body of work is exhibited in a centuries-old adobe house in Santa Fe, itself full of memories, adding yet another layer in the long creative process. |
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Click on images to view selected pieces Inquiry/order: director@touchingstone.com, see Inquiry/Order |
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Memory of Time C1 Ceramic sculpture 19" x 9" x 13.5"h (2 views) Sold
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Memory of Time F1 Ceramic sculpture 9.5" x 4.5" x 6.5"h (3 views)
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Memory of Time F2 Ceramic sculpture 13" x 6.5" x 8"h (2 views) Sold
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  Memory of Time F4 Ceramic sculpture 16.5" x 8" x 12"h (2 views)
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   Memory of Time F3 Ceramic sculpture 8.5" x 5" x 5.5"h (3 views) Sold
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Memory of Time B1 Ceramic sculpture 8" x 4" x 6.5"h (2 views) Sold
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Memory of Time B3 Ceramic sculpture 10" x 5" x 5.5"h (2 views)
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Memory of Time B4 Ceramic sculpture 12" x 5" x 5"h (2 views) Sold
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Memory of Time B5 Ceramic sculpture 12" x 5.5" x 5.5"h (2 views) Sold
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Memory of Time A1 Ceramic vase/sculpture 10" x 9" x 5.5"h (2 views) Sold
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Memory of Time A2 Ceramic vase/sculpture 10" x 8" x 4.5"h (2 views) Sold
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Memory of Time A4 Ceramic vase/sculpture 7.5" x 5.5" x 3"h (2 views) Sold
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Memory of Time M1 Ceramic vase/sculpture 10" x 7" x 5"h (2 views) Sold
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Memory of Time M2 Ceramic vase/sculpture 8" x 6.5" x 4"h (2 views) Sold
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Memory of Time M4 Ceramic vase/sculpture 7.5" x 7" x 4"h (2 views) Sold
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Memory of Time M5
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vase/sculpture 8" x 8" x 5"h (2 views) |
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  Memory of Time M6 Ceramic vase/sculpture 9" x 6" x 4.5"h (2 views)
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  Memory of Time M8 Ceramic vase/sculpture 7" x 5.5" x 4"h (2 views) Sold
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  Memory of Time R3 Ceramic sculpture 11.5" x 5.5" x 4.5"h (2 views) Sold
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  Memory of Time R4 Ceramic sculpture 9" x 5" x 4"h (2 views)
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 Memory of Time K2 Ceramic hanging vase 11.5"h x 4.5" x 3.5"h Sold
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 Memory of Time K3 Ceramic hanging vase 11"h x 4.5" x 3.5"h Sold
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Reception for Fusako Akao in Touching Stone Gallery, Santa Fe |
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Shows and Honors 1972 Graduated from Art & Craft Department in Gifu National University 1983 Studied with Kiyoyuki Kato in Seto 1987 Grand Prize, Asahi Ceramic Exhibition 1988 Established kiln in Yunone, Seto 1990 Solo show, Gallery Isogaya, Tokyo 1991 Solo show, Gallery Isogaya, Tokyo 1993 Solo show, Gallery Isogaya, Tokyo 1994 Solo show, Gallery M, Tokyo 1996 Solo show, Gallery M, Tokyo 1997 Established new kiln in Gifu Solo show, Gallery Ten, Tokyo Solo show, Gallery Fuu, Nagoya Solo show, Gallery M, Tokyo 1998 Solo show, Gallery Fuu, Nagoya 1999 Solo show, Gallery Kura, Gifu Solo show, Gallery Nin, Tokyo 2000 Solo show, Galley Oribetei 2001 Appointed lecturer, Asahi Culture Center 2002 Solo show, Art Space So, Nagoya Solo show, Gallery Kanon, Tokyo 2003 Solo show, Gallery Nin, Tokyo Solo show, Gallery Jyugenmon, Tokyo 2005 Solo show, Gallery Nin, Tokyo 2007 Solo show, Gallery Nin, Tokyo 2008 Solo show, Gallery Brocken, Tokyo 2009 Solo show, Gallery Nin, Tokyo 2010 Tokio-Barcelona II, Barcelona, Spain Solo show, Gallery Nin, Tokyo 2011 Solo show, Gallery Nin, Tokyo 2012 Solo show, Touching Stone Gallery, Santa Fe, USA Publications 1995 Tojiro, Vol. 4. 2001 Exhibition catalogue, 39th Asahi Ceramic Exhibition 2003 Tojiro, Vol. 23. 2009 Sogetsu, Vol. 236. 2010 Exhibition catalogue, Tokio-Barcelona II |
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