FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Forming a VoiceNew Sculptures by Fujino Sachiko
Opening May 11, 2021
Fujino Sachiko's latest multi-dimensional clay forms challenge the viewer to thinkbeyond petals and blossoms. For her third exhibition at Joan B Mirviss LTD, Fujinopresents hybrid sculptures that take center stage in FORMING A VOICE. Her earlier
explorations in both stark geometric forms and organic blooms merge to find new
expression here—intricate artworks are built upon strong, balanced shapes ofForm 20-7
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spheres and wedges and crowned with soft, irregular folds in velvety gray-black or
creamy white. Through the laborious process of coil-building and hand-sculpting,
and without the use of maquettes, the artist herself does not know the artwork's final
form until the end. Through the medium of clay, her sculptures speak her voice witha powerful inner conviction. Fujino states:"The act of kneading clay and creating shapes connects meto the thoughts and memories deep in my heart."
Fujino Sachiko (b. 1950) began her studies in the world of fashion-design in Kyoto,
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pottery class in the 1980s first introduced her to the ceramic world and resulted inher becoming the student of the pioneering, female ceramic artist Tsuboi Asuka(b. 1932), herself a pupil of the celebrated Tomimoto Kenkichi. Drawing on her textile
background, Fujino folds and tucks clay with the deftness of manipulating cloth. She
gently textures the surface with matte slip sprayed through an airbrush. Her latest
works are in gradations of charcoal-gray or white, enhancing their evocative
silhouettes. Tempting as it is to call them flowers, the artist says, "My interest in the
mystery of plants has been deeply rooted in me since childhood, but my work is notintended to be a direct image of flowers."

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Fujino’s work has been highly awarded both nationally and internationally. She wasrepresented in the immensely popular traveling exhibition, “Soaring Voices:Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramic Artists” from 2007-2012; in "New Forms,
New Voices: Japanese Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection" at the New
Orleans Museum of Art from 2017-2018; and in "Japan Now: Female Masters" at theGardiner Museum in Toronto, Canada. Museums such as the Faenza International
Ceramic Museum, Italy; Kyoto City Cultural Museum; Minneapolis Institute of Art;
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art; and Yale University
Art Gallery, to name a few, hold her artwork in their collections.

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