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Born in 1929, Toshiko Takaezu has been working in clay for over 40 years, and she has moved from producing functional vessels to abstract sculptural forms. She draws on a combination of Eastern and Western techniques and aesthetics as well as her love of the natural world. Throughout her career, Takaezu has explored a select repertoire of forms, often focusing on the vertical closed vessel that has become a symbol of her work. While earlier pieces were almost exclusively wheel-thrown, she began incorporating hand-building techniques, which allowed her to compose vessels vertically. The simple, cohesive structures for which she is now well-known are united by their common form but gain individual character through the painterly aspects of their surface decoration. Takaezu’s spontaneous approach to glazing, in which she walks around the vessel freely applying glaze through pouring and painting, balances her more methodical building process and allows her to add an improvisational element to her work.
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Untitled
Glazed porcelain
7 x 5 x 5 in.
2007
Estimated value: $3,000
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