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Shō (Soaring)

Shō (Soaring)

Artist/Maker (Japanese, b. 1947)
Date2007
MediumGlazed porcelain with wood base
DimensionsOverall: 10 1/4 × 24 3/8 × 7 7/8 in. (26 × 61.9 × 20 cm)
Overall (Storage Box): 12 1/4 × 28 1/8 × 11 in. (31.1 × 71.4 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineSanford L. Palay (OC 1940) Japanese Art Fund and Oberlin Friends of Art Fund
Edition2/8
Object number2015.17
Status
On view
More Information
Fukami Sueharu is perhaps the foremost Japanese ceramicist active today. During a time of intense vitality in Japanese ceramic arts, Fukami is a bridge between tradition and contemporary global art movements. His work takes many forms, from vessels to abstract sculptures, all existing in a liminal space between soft and hard, solid and void.

Fukami creates his sharp-edged, organic forms by adapting the modern industrial method of high-pressure, slip casting of porcelain. The subtle blue-green glaze, however, is based on a traditional Chinese qingbai 青白 (“blue-green white” or “clear blue-green”) glaze developed around the 10th century. Known in Japan as seihakuExhibition History
Conversations: Past and Present in Asia and America
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (July 12, 2016 - July 10, 2017 )
Form and Emptiness: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Japanes Ceramics
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 15, 2021 - January 23, 2022 )
Inspirations: Global Dialogue Through the Arts
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (July 5, 2023 - May 31, 2025 )
Collections
  • On View
  • Asian
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