ZOOM Gallery Talk
Taking Space, Making Space: Japanese Women Ceramic Artists
in conjunction with Radical Clay at the Art Institute of Chicago
and our presentation at The Winter Show 2024 at the Park Avenue Armory
Recorded December 14, 2023
Coinciding with Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan, which opens at the Art Institute of Chicago just a few days later, this ZOOM Gallery Talk explores the vital role of 20th and 21st century Japanese women clay artists within Japanese ceramics today. Drawn from the Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz Collection and featuring work by 20 of our gallery artists, the museum exhibition celebrates the achievements and profound influence of these creative visionaries on a traditionally male-dominated ceramics field. Panelists for this event include key figures who contributed to this important exhibition, including collector and museum patron Carol Horvitz, curator and Radical Clay catalogue contributor Hollis Goodall, and two prominent gallery artists featured in the exhibition, Tashima Etsuko and Tomita Mikiko, who represent different generational perspectives.
PANELISTS:
HOLLIS GOODALL, Former Curator of Japanese Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), CA
CAROL HORVITZ, Japanese art collector and museum patron, MA
TASHIMA ETSUKO, Gallery artist and Professor of Ceramics at Osaka University of the Arts, Japan
TOMITA MIKIKO, Gallery artist
interpretation by DANIEL BORENGASSER
moderated by JOAN MIRVISS