Exhibitions

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  A Lotus in Bloom

  The Beauty That Rises 2020年6月10日 - 7月10日 Lotus: Beauty that Rises from the Mud Growing out of muddy water, the lotus produces flowers that represent purity and clarity, resulting its use as a symbol of Buddha’s wisdom. Although most often depicted with a Buddha sitting on a lotus Blossom, numerous cultures have used the flower to express... Read more

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  Ceramics on Lacquerware

  Keiji Ito and Tohru Matsuzaki 2020年10月9日 - 10月18日 Ippodo Gallery Tokyo is holding “Ceramics on the Lacquerware”, a collaborative exhibition featuring Keiji Ito, ceramic artist, and Tohru Matsuzaki, wooden lacquerware artist. 　 The two artists were first connected by Ippodo Gallery and Shigeru Uchida, renowned interior designer. Uchida once wrote “Keiji Ito’s artwork reassures me ‘the power of... Read more

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  Massimo Micheluzzi

  Master of Venetian Glass 2021年10月12日 - 11月19日 As I gaze at the glass mosaic of Massimo Micheluzzi, which has just arrived from Venice, I am overcome with a strange feeling of nostalgia. Among Micheluzzi's latest works, some are evocative of a tortoiseshell design, the stone paving in a Japanese garden, or the dyed patterns of a kimono... Read more

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  Moonlit Night

  A selection of crafts that celebrates this Otsukimi season 2021年9月2日 - 10月5日 The Moon and Japan The moon can be seen faintly against the blue sky as the sun goes down. The waxing and waning of the moon have long appealed to the sensibility of the people of Japan—a full moon shining in a pitch-black sky ushering in dreams, or a hazy... Read more

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  Kogei: The Art of Japanese craft

  Summer Selections from Ippodo Gallery, New York 2021年8月5日 - 8月27日 The Japanese festival of Obon ( お盆) traces back to ancient Chinese and Buddhist rituals that honor one’s ancestors. It is believe that this time every year, the ancestor’s spirits come back and visit their living relatives. During the holiday, from August 13th to 15th, many families visit ancestral graves... Read more

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  Magic of the Tea Bowl

  A Survey of 11 Contemporary Ippodo Gallery Artists 2021年6月17日 - 7月28日 The Japanese tea ceremony was first established during the 16th century and has continued to flourish to the present day. Closely related to Zen philosophy, it has held a central place in Japanese art, culture and soul. Known as Chawan, tea bowls are handed from the tea master, who prepares... Read more

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  The Garden of Dreams

  Porcelain Stories by Yuki Hayama 2021年4月30日 - 6月11日 A surface completely covered in flowers; Yuki Hayama’s Offering Bowl with Ten Thousand Flowers is like a radiant dream. The form of the offering bowl suggests a sense of openness and vulnerability, one that can be filled with prayer and love. Stories tell of our ancestors, offering flowers to the... Read more

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  Painting Radiance

  Light and Nature in the Art of Daisuke Nakano 2021年3月25日 - 4月23日 If There is a Heaven Daisuke Nakano creates paintings of light. I think, if heaven exists, it would resemble the landscapes of Nakano’s creation. Following Illuminating All Over the World, a painting that had brought hope last summer, this spring Nakano added a pair of two-panel screens titled, Blessed with... Read more

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  Through Her Eyes

  In Memory of Laura de Santillana 2020年10月21日 - 11月18日 An exhibition at Ippodo Gallery New York featuring artist Laura de Santillana's glass sculptures. Read more

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  Samsara 輪廻:

  Sculptures by Sho Kishino 2020年9月10日 - 10月8日 The sound of footsteps, the rounded shoulders of a priest, the crowing of a gamecock, a mother’s gentle smile…these works possess not only sorrow, but also humor. Light and shadow coexist. Using wood from old temple or shrine buildings, pine, cedar driftwood, or stones he finds in the Kizugawa river... Read more

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  The Breath of Clay

  The Life of Koichiro Isezaki's Contemporary Bizen 2020年3月12日 - 4月16日 Time seems to pass slowly in this small village. Set among the greenery of the surrounding mountains, passing along a road lined with walls made of pottery shards, we come to a large mound of raw clay that marks Isezaki’s studio. Following in the footsteps of his grandfather, Yōzan, and... Read more

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  Conversations in Tea

  The Modern Ritual Through Ippodo Artists 2020年2月6日 - 2月24日 Read more

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  Scenes of Lightness

  Works by Yukiya Izumita 2019年12月13日 - 2020年1月24日 Izumita begins his day standing on a beach in the northern Tōhoku region of Japan. He travels back and forth along the path that leads to his studio, carrying salt-rich clay and wishing that ‘the clay could be lighter.’ Heavy and light, living and dying, he searches for a comfortable... Read more

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  Kukai : Sun and Moon

  Paintings by Ken Matsubara | Grand Opening Exhibition at 32 E 67th street gallery 2019年10月10日 - 11月22日 Benevolent Painting The Kuroshio Current that flows along Japan’s south-eastern coastline creates powerful eddies around the sunken rocks while the raging waves thunder against the coast, raising fine spray. The sun rises in the sky, day by day, while at night the silver light of the moon shines through the... Read more

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  Ethereal Clay

  Ceramic works by Shin Fujihira 2019年6月13日 - 7月21日 Read more

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  Laura de Santillana | Moon.

  From Kyoto to New York 2019年4月19日 - 5月24日 In last autumn’s exhibition in Kyoto, Laura’s work was displayed together with kimonos and obi sashes in a traditional Japanese building, where it harmonized beautifully with the tatami matsand painted folding screens. Despite being glass, the light that passes through it is softened, as if it had passed through shōji... Read more

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  Burst of Nature

  Nihonga paintings by Daisuke Nakano 2019年3月7日 - 4月6日 Burst of Nature Shoko Aono A nandina plant with red berries struggles under the weight of the falling snow while a marten holds its breath, its eyes gazing in our direction. The sweet perfume of a magnolia in full bloom almost wafts from the image as the carp stream against... Read more

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  Rinpa: Silver Waves

  Lacquer works by Tohru Matsuzaki 2018年11月1日 - 11月21日 Matsuzaki's studio is set among the quiet mountains of Motegi town in Tochigi Prefecture, which is situated next to the village of Mashiko where the potter, Shoji Hamada, one of the leaders of the mingei (folk-art) movement of the 1920s and 1930s, based his activities. In Mashiko, Matsuzaki studied under... Read more

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  Moon : Tsuki wo koso …

  Kondaya Genbey x Laura de Santillana 2018年10月6日 - 10月8日 Moon : Tsuki wo koso… Genbey Yamaguchi, the tenth generation owner of the famous Kyoto obi specialist, Kondaya, is a rare breed of man. Kondaya has remained a leader in its field for 280 years, and Yamaguchi believes that challenging tradition is the best way to protect it. He therefore... Read more

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  Between Forms

  The Terracotta Cosmos by Mokichi Otsuka 2018年6月6日 - 6月28日 Endless Bonds Shoko Aono One day in late summer, I visited Mokichi Ōtsuka at his home in Yamanashi Prefecture. The evening cicadas called as a gentle breeze blew through the trees in the garden of his classical Japanese home, bringing with it a cool scent. The breeze blew past the... Read more

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  Oceans Formed

  Glass Works by Midori Tsukada 2018年5月24日 - 6月21日 To the Forest, Wind and Ocean Depths Shoko Aono When I first saw works by Midori Tsukada, my immediate impressions were of the forest, the wind, and the sea. The refreshing scent of the new leaves experienced when walking through the forest. A form resembling the draping aurora becomes light... Read more

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  Tea Bowls: Art of Five Senses

  Contemporary Japanese Tea Ceremony Wares 2018年3月15日 - 4月7日 Expressing Gratitude for Ippodo Gallery’s First 10 Years Shoko Aono “It (Teaism) insulates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we... Read more

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  Ripples & Blooms

  Metal Works by Shota Suzuki 2017年12月7日 - 12月29日 Still Life: Creating a Moment for Eternity Shoko Aono When I was young, I ran through the fields, picking the wildflowers that grew close to the ground. I would return home, hands full of flowers, only for the buds to soon wilt away. But the flowers that Suzuki creates capture... Read more

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  The Essence of Imperfection

  Wabi Sabi at Ippodo Gallery 2017年10月26日 - 11月22日 Wabi Sabi Shoko Aono The call of the evening cicada that signals the approach of autumn, a lonely plain of eulalia grass, a moss-covered rock, a simple teahouse… The Japanese philosophy of wabi and sabi derives from a close affinity with nature and an abiding love for the changes created... Read more

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  Earth From Sky

  Stoneware Works By Mitsukuni Misaki 2017年9月7日 - 9月29日 Beginning to Breathe Shoko Aono Blue oceans, endless skies, billowing clouds — a boundless world with a horizon separating earth from sky. Misaki’s works create an impression of limitless space and time, like an ever-expanding universe. Their slightly distorted forms are evocative of naturally sprouting seeds or fruit. Perhaps they... Read more

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  Bamboo Exposed

  Mastery in Modernity of Hafu Matsumoto 2017年6月8日 - 7月30日 Bamboo Exposed Shoko Aono Bamboo has played an important role in Japanese culture since earliest times. Its elegant form, its straight, hollow, green stems reaching up into the skies, symbolize purity and good fortune. In ‘Kaguyahime (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter)’, which is said to be the world’s oldest... Read more

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  Surface Folds

  Yukiya Izumita Clay Wares 2017年3月9日 - 4月7日 Unforseen Lines Shoko Aono Yukiya Izumita’s studio is situated in Noda Village, on the border between Iwate and Aomori prefectures, in Japan’s northernmost ceramic production area.　Facing the Pacific Ocean, the Tohoku region’s distinctive climate is forged by strong winds and rough seas. Izumita’s native landscape lies amidst deserted coastlines, cracked... Read more

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  Lacquer Forms : Modern Negoro

  Lacquer Works by Jihei Murase 2016年10月13日 - 11月3日 The lacquerwork of Jihei Murase embodies the essence of formative art. It represents not merely the ‘beauty of functionality’ that settles comfortably into the hand, but is simultaneously a refined sculpture in its own right. Jihei is the third generation of the Murase family to adopt the name, following his... Read more

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  Beauty of Life

  The Debut Exhibition of Ceramic Works by Yuki Hayama in collaboration with Joseph Carini Carpets 2016年9月9日 - 9月29日 Yuki Hayama— A Ceramic Paradise Shoko Aono Yuki Hayama is an exceptional artist whose ceramics resemble gleaming, finely polished gemstones. Those who see these works of ceramic art are drawn into an uncanny world, unable to discern the era or the land in which they were produced but enchanted by... Read more

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  Distillation

  Paintings by Ken Matsubara 2016年5月12日 - 6月10日 “When the ability to express emotion was acquired, that is when man became human. I would like to get back to this starting point. If my paintings strike a sympathetic chord with, and awaken nostalgia in the back of a viewer’s mind, it will be my pleasure as... Read more

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  Synthesis

  Japanese Fusuma Photography by Kenji Wakasugi 2016年3月10日 - 4月22日 Wakasugi combines views of nature he has photographed while traveling the remote regions of the world with fusuma, decorated sliding doors. These particular fusuma have been taken from a Japanese room with over four hundred years of history, and his photographs have been artfully inserted into them. This represents a... Read more

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  Japanese Kogei

  by Five Ippodo Artists 2015年10月21日 - 11月28日 Kôgei art springs from detailed technique and genuine internal soul. In honor of our artists’ participation in the Japanese Kôgei Future Forward exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design, Ippodo will be presenting the newest works by our five exhibiting artists: Shinya Yamamura, Toshio Ohi, Kohei Nakamura, Harumi Noguchi,... Read more

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  Art of Lines | " Human, and We Live "

  Calligraphy by Suikei Saito 2015年9月12日 - 10月3日 'My struggle has started when I was fascinated and astonished by the world of calligraphy, which is the 'art of lines', and its depth, and when I made up my mind to master it. “ Suikei Saito Suikei Saito first held a writing brush when she was twelve. After... Read more

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  Spiral

  Ceramic works By Ken Akaji 2015年6月18日 - 7月3日 Spiral The shape of the Milky Way, of whirlwinds and whirlpools, snails and ivy tendrils—it is the form of the fundamental and mathematical energy of nature, and the pattern we, mankind, have used as a symbol of death and rebirth. Ken Akaji was born in the city of... Read more

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  Hime | The Princess of Japan

  Was I born to Play? Was I born to Frolic? (“Ryōjin Hishō” (1179) ) 2015年3月12日 - 3月30日 Was I born to Play? Was I born to Frolic? (“Ryōjin Hishō” 1179) Shoko Aono The samurai lived for victory in the battles that swept the country, creating the history of Japan in the process, but they could not have done so without the support of the brave yet elegant... Read more

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  OKAMI | Wolf & The Elemental Spirits of Nature

  Ceramic sculpture by Harumi Noguchi 2014年12月8日 - 12月27日 “There was a time when I was small that I was looked after by a cross between a Japanese wolf and a dog. Like foxes and deer, wolves are said to be messengers of the gods, while simultaneously they are revered as gods in their own right. It can be... Read more

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  Sculpting ‘Emptiness’

  Wood sculptures by Sho Kishino 2013年9月12日 - 10月3日 An Artist Who Sculpts ‘Emptiness’ Shoko Aono Shō Kishino’s sculptures depict the ‘emptiness’ that envelops them. Although they may take the form of a human figure, an animal or a priest, by paring away all superfluous material, he manages to accentuate their inner spirit. He works in wood—old wood from... Read more