Toshiko Takaezu

James Cohan is delighted to present Toshiko Takaezu: Interplay, a special viewing room presentation of works by the late artist.

This focused exhibition is presented on the occasion of the first nationally touring retrospective of Takaezu’s work in over twenty years, opening on March 20, 2024 at The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum.

American master ceramicist Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011), is known for her signature closed forms, inspired by Abstract Expressionism and the traditions of East Asia, including ink painting and the Japanese tea ceremony. Her ceramics fuse these visual inspirations and demonstrate the artist’s process of abstraction, in which she experimented with gestural application of glazes, treating the vessel as a canvas in the round.