White Dragon-skin Chawan Tea Bowl by Tokumaru Kyoko
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A beautiful and elegant work by important female artist Tokumaru Kyoko comes enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Hakuji Ryuhimon Chawan (White Dragon-skin) and dating to Reiwa 3 nen (2021).
Her spiky lances and unfurling fronds forming are fantastical. The artist begins with slabs of clay and then constructs them to create work rooted in existential explorations. In this regard, Tokumaru notes that her spatial expressions allow her to travel deep inside herself. Describing the experience as “an accumulation of texture,” she explains that she can feel her inner emotions being transferred into the clay through the touch of her hands.
Size, D 14.1 cm H 10.4 cm
Condition, Excellent
Tokumaru was born in Tokyo in 1963. She holds both a BFA and MFA in ceramics from Tama Art University, Tokyo. She has received the Japan Agency for Cultural Affaires Fellowship as well as the Izushi Porcelain Award Bronze-Prix. A veteran of numerous solo and group exhibitions, the artist has shown her ceramic sculptures internationally, and her work is included in several public collections, including the Mino Contemporary Ceramic Art Museum ,The Foundation of Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park ,Tokoname City Public Collectionand the Philadelphia Museum of Art,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston among many many others.
A beautiful and elegant work by important female artist Tokumaru Kyoko comes enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Hakuji Ryuhimon Chawan (White Dragon-skin) and dating to Reiwa 3 nen (2021).
Her spiky lances and unfurling fronds forming are fantastical. The artist begins with slabs of clay and then constructs them to create work rooted in existential explorations. In this regard, Tokumaru notes that her spatial expressions allow her to travel deep inside herself. Describing the experience as “an accumulation of texture,” she explains that she can feel her inner emotions being transferred into the clay through the touch of her hands.
Size, D 14.1 cm H 10.4 cm
Condition, Excellent
Tokumaru was born in Tokyo in 1963. She holds both a BFA and MFA in ceramics from Tama Art University, Tokyo. She has received the Japan Agency for Cultural Affaires Fellowship as well as the Izushi Porcelain Award Bronze-Prix. A veteran of numerous solo and group exhibitions, the artist has shown her ceramic sculptures internationally, and her work is included in several public collections, including the Mino Contemporary Ceramic Art Museum ,The Foundation of Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park ,Tokoname City Public Collectionand the Philadelphia Museum of Art,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston among many many others.
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