Ricca OKANO

RICCA OKANO Solo Exhibition|ennen.
2024.Dec.14(sat) - 25 (wed) Open : 13:00 -19:00, Shanghai
上海市徐汇区衡山路8号 210B

Ceramic Salon ｜Sea View

Opening Reception: December 14, 11am – 5pm

Open Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm

4166 Sea View Avenue

Los Angeles, CA

+1 (323) 230-0362

Sea View and ATLA are pleased to present, Ceramic Salon 陶芸サロン, a group exhibition that merges Japanese and Californian practices into a dialogue around the rich history and innovations of clay.

Ceramic Salon 陶芸サロン showcases an intergenerational range of traditional and contemporary craftsmanship, offering insights into how ceramic reflects and shapes cross-cultural narratives between Japan and California.

Spanning both galleries at Sea View, the ceramic works will be displayed on shallow shelves beneath the paintings by Brazilian artist Beatrice Arraes in her current exhibition Jogo de Mesa, which makes for an apt intimate pairing around materiality, time, and transformation.

Featuring Artists:

Adam Alessi

Akihide Nakao

Kuniko Kinoto

Magdalena Suarez Frimkess

Myosyu Wataru

Ricca Okano

Roger Herman

Skye Chamberlain

Stan Edmonson

Yoshikazu Tanaka

Yu Kobayashi

In me, in me, in me..

Artist: Ricca Okano

Exhibition: 2024.9.28. SAT- 2024.10.14.MON

Venue: CIBONE CASE (Ginza)

Artist in Gallery: 9.28. SAT 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

We are pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Ricca Okano, a ceramic artist based in Nagano.

Last year at CIBONE, we described the colors in her works as afterimages projected behind the eyelids—colors that are unique, belonging neither entirely to dreams nor reality. In those colors, we found traces of her emotions.

For this exhibition, we asked her to explore the theme of "black." Even though it may seem simple to encapsulate everything into the term “black,” her interpretation of black is far more intricate. It is elusive and unreachable, requiring one to pass through countless layers of emotions and colors before reaching the depths of it. Her black possesses a mysterious beauty, much like the way stars gradually become visible in a clear, dark sky.

We refer to her works as “emotional fluctuation devices.” Beyond serving their functional purpose, her vessels act as touchpoints with human emotions. We invite you to experience the deep waves of emotion embedded in the clay and glaze, and to be drawn into the world of “black and color.”

Sydney:The DEA_Store_

UK: two persimmons_

Canada: Vessels+Sticks

Shanghai: ennen

Brooklyn: CIBONE Brooklyn

Tokyo:CIBONE_Tokyo

interview: Crafters of Today

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