Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within

 Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within

March 20 2024 - July 28 2024

Bill's ceramic mentor, professor at Princeton University for whom he apprenticed two years; introducing us and Bill continuing to fire her kilns and demonstrate coil building for university classes while our sons were small, is now having an astonishing exhibit at the Noguchi Museum featuring about 200 pieces of her art.

Last year, one of Toshiko Takaezu's Moon Pots sold for $541,800.

I remember handwashing the floor rug below when it first came back to the studio.

Bill & I brought back these Guatamalen hammocks in the 70's for Moon Pots to be displayed in.

The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum has assembled a major nationally touring retrospective and largest ceramic monograph (Yale University Press) centered on Toshiko Takaezu's life. It is organized by The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum with assistance from the Toshiko Takaezu Foundation and the Takaezu family with works from private and public collections around the country. 

The opening we attended was packed followed by a dinner for over 100 apprentices, artists, friends & family celebrating her consumate artistic lifestyle and ethics which were embraced by all and well ahead of her time. A concurrent dinner featuring her monograph for donors and organizers was also held.

A bronzed bell in the Noguchi Garden Museum. Princeton University has a large one on campus.

All astonishing! This exhibition is outrageously breaking attendance records.

Tile Trivet

White hydrangeas on one of Bill's lovely tile tops we use as a large trivet. 

Black framed & beautiful.

One of Bill's "Garden Stones" on Leif's porch. Nice place to see & sit on real art, feel it and deal with your shoes.

Caryatid Sculptures

Bill has two new "Caryatid" Sculptures fired in a very hot glaze fire which gave them a tinge of warmer; deeper colors. These sculptures add to a series of seven. 

Faucet Find

Leif has used an extra faucet I had and his studio cabinet is finished. It was installed with the sink before the counter, and a P-trap constructed when all was secured in place.

Marine paint around the faucet base helps elongate the bar sink and protect the counter; installed with Liquid Nails, small wood blocks & screws, and silcone. Total cost: $420.

Wall mounted tall cabinet for art supplies, being built next to it with modern legs: $240.

Track lighting: $165. Done (the wall opposite is half glass).

LED Lights

Leif has been switching all of his house lights and most recently old flourescent tube lights to LED lighting. He choose "toggled" 4' & 3' 3000K LED T8 strip lights ordered from Home Depot for $60 total, to cover 24' over 6 sliding glass doors. They are the warmest type and will have walnut board baffles remounted in front. Next will be a dimmer switch added and WAC track lights matching the kitchen, attached to large ceiling beams here.