Pottery | Pexels by Antoni Shkraba
Pottery | Pexels by Antoni Shkraba
From February 20 to March 24, Tiffin University’s Diane Kidd Gallery will feature “Patterns in Clay.” Kaname and Sumiko Takada, husband and wife, are both ceramic artists and have created Studio Takada, located in Columbus. The show’s reception will be Friday, March 10 from 5 to 7 p.m., with an artist talk starting at 5:30. Light refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public.
Kaname Takada is a professor in the School of Studio Arts at the Columbus College of Art and Design. His hand-built pieces are decorated with intricate patterns created with multiple slips and glazes on the surface. The shape, scale, colors and textures are chosen to complement and enhance the patterns on the forms. He feels a piece is successful when all elements work together as a unit.
Kaname says, “Even though art is increasingly becoming a theory-oriented field and art objects becoming investment commodities, I consider my pieces as sensuous objects, as I would like the viewer to feel them by both sight and touch. It would be my great pleasure if the viewer can enjoy and appreciate my work rather than understand it.”
Sumiko Takada has been working with clay for over 20 years. She has studied in Japan and in Columbus at the Worthington Community Center and the Columbus College of Art and Design. Sumiko creates her functional work with stoneware. Her inlaid pieces are also crafted by hand. She also uses slip decorations and various glazes of her own formula in her work. Motifs for her inlaid designs come from various sources, but are influenced most by traditional Japanese geometric and floral patterns found in many common objects people use in their daily lives.
Sumiko says, “Though I was born and raised in a region rich in Japanese ceramics history and tradition, cities like Seto, Tokoname and Tajimi are nearby. There were occasions I could not find pieces of the shapes, sizes and decorations I needed or liked. That’s why I started making my own pieces.”
For more information about this exhibition, email Joseph Van Kerkhove at vankerkhovejm@tiffin.edu.
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