Kishi Eiko 岸 映子
D7.6xW22.8xH24.1cm
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Director's note: Back in 2002, the American potter Warren Mackenzie brought Kishi Eiko to our gallery in New York City after she had finished the Minnesota Workshop. I later visited her at her studio in Kyoto, and was completely blown away by her powerful and meticulous ceramic sculptures. Even though my gallery focused on functional tea wares at the time, my enthusiasm and curiosity for her work was unavoidable.
Back in the 1980s, Kishi started to create colored chamottes in Shigaraki clay. She then inlaid these into hand-built ceramic forms of breathtakingly precise shape. Once fired, she reveals the chamottes through a careful process of hand picking and engraving a web of fine lines into the surface. One piece of chamotte is roughly 2mm, and when glazed shines like silk thread. Kishi calls this Saishiki-Zogan 「彩石象嵌」.
This flower vessel uses surface to play with light and shadow. Her signature surfaces shine through in this hand built vase.
Her works have been collected widely, and can be found at Seto City Culture Center, Aichi; Tokoname City, Aichi; Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Art and Design, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Brooklyn Museum; Smith College Museum of Art; Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin; Institute of Arts, Minnesota; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana; Hamilton Art Gallery, Australia; International Ceramic Museum, Faenza; Kecskemet International Ceramics Studio, Hungary; Musée Cernuschi, Paris; Musée Nationale de Ceramiques, Sèvres, France; National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Taipei County Yingee Ceramics Museum, Taiwan; and many more.