Description

The Noguchi Museum plans an expansive, nationally-touring retrospective exhibition of the work of Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011), one of the 20th century’s most original and technically brilliant ceramicists. Of Okinawan heritage and born in Hawai‘i, Takaezu enjoyed a seventy-year career as a ceramicist, painter, weaver, and teacher. The exhibition aims to expand the understanding of her immense body of work with a dual-focus: a chronological installation; and thematic installations that feature the artist’s ambitious efforts to create conceptually- and culturally-hybrid environments of innovative closed-form ceramics, produced at various scales and treated as paintings-in-the-round. The exhibition, set to tour to four venues, and the accompanying catalogue, will provide a long-overdue in-depth consideration of the artist and her work.