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Jun Kaneko (金子 潤, Kaneko Jun, born 1942) is a Japanese-born American ceramic artist known for creating large scale ceramic sculpture. [2] Based out of a studio warehouse in Omaha, Nebraska , Kaneko primarily works in clay to explore the effects of repeated abstract surface motifs by using ceramic glaze .
An exhibit at KANEKO is celebrating their founder, Jun Kaneko, who recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center.
This is a list of Japanese artists.This list is intended to encompass Japanese who are primarily fine artists. For information on those who work primarily in film, television, advertising, manga, anime, video games, or performance arts, please see the relevant respective articles.
The Bemis was a collaboration between Kaneko, her sculptor husband Jun Kaneko, ceramic artist Tony Hepburn, and visual arts curator and professor Lorne Faluk. [8] Kaneko founded Bemis and served as its executive director until 2001, when she and husband Jun Kaneko dedicated their efforts to founding a new center for creativity in downtown Omaha ...
The exterior of the facility is highlighted by a 30 feet (360 in) high metal panel canopy over pavestone walkway at the main entry. The southern elevation of the building again features a high canopy with fixed blade sunshades and opens onto a decorative concrete plaza designed by Jun Kaneko, a renowned Japanese ceramic artist.
Dale Patrick Chihuly was born on September 20, 1941, in Tacoma, Washington. [3] His parents were George and Viola Chihuly; his paternal grandfather was born in Slovakia. [3]
Recent acquisitions to the collection include a mobile by Mel Ritsau installed below the central skylight on the second floor/main level and first floor entrance at the end of the building renovation in 2009, and an untitled monumental head sculpture by Jun Kaneko added to the Kahn addition of the library in 2006. [8]
The Honolulu Museum of Art was called "the finest small museum in the United States" by J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art from 1969 to 1992. [4] In addition to an internationally renowned permanent collection, the museum houses innovative exhibitions, an art school, an independent art house theatre, a café and a museum shop.