Masamichi Yoshikawa
Japanese Ceramic Artist
“BREAKING PORCELAIN TRADITION TO CREATE THICK SCULPTURAL FORMS, BOLD, & COVERED WITH POOLING & DRIPPING GLAZE”
Based in Tokoname, Yoshikawa specializes in porcelain with a pale blue seihakuji glaze. He explores a love of texture, carved surfaces, and architectural forms. With sculptural, architectural, porcelain objects, which are usually composed of porcelain cubes. He assembles slabs of clay and carves into them to produce geometric forms with minor irregularities expressing how beauty manifests itself through imperfection. The often dripping seihakuji glaze adds another level of tactile tension. His love of painting is expressed by drawings in cobalt blue underglaze, to create calligraphic patterns on the surfaces of his work, sometimes even underneath. The drawings covey personal stories and traces of the artist.
