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Quintessential Ogawa Machiko Contemporary Clay Vessel

Quintessential Ogawa Machiko Contemporary Clay Vessel


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An inverted cone lined with gleaming silver rises from a base of raw white clay in this sculptural vessel capturing the essence of the artist Ogawa Machiko enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled simply Utsuwa (receptacle). It is 12.5 x 10cm x 17 cm (5 x 4 x 6-3/4 inches) and is in perfect condition.
Ogawa Machiko was born in Sapporo on the Northern Island of Hokkaido in 1946. She studied under future Living National Treasures Fujimoto Yoshimichi, Tamura Koichi and Kato Hajime at the Tokyo University of Arts, graduating in 1969, then went on to further studies in France and Africa, returning to Japan in 1975. She began garnering attention in the mid eighties, and has since become one of the leading female figures in Japanese pottery. She was awarded the JCS prize in 2001, one of Japans most prestigious awards. Work by her is held in the Brooklyn Art Museum, LACMA, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smith College, MIA, MOMAT and a host of others. For more see “Touch Fire, Contemporary Ceramics by Women Artists” (2009) or Toh, volume 67 (1993). For more information see the current exhibition Radical Clay at the Chicago Art Institute.