Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, December 16, 2023-June 3, 2024; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, July 27, 2024-May 11, 2025; and Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, June 13-August 31, 2025
Since World War II, women have made influential contributions to the ceramics field in Japan that have not been adequately recognized. This exhibition focuses on the explosion of innovative and technically ambitious compositions by such artists since 1970--a body of work which they developed in parallel with, but often separately from, traditional, male-dominated Japanese practice and its countermovements