An architectural form incised and inlayed with colored clay by Kishi Eiko enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Saiseki Zogan-ki. It is 32 x 25.5 x 19.5 cm (13 x 10 x 8 inches) and in perfect condition.
Kishi Eiko (b. 1948, Nara, Japan) is a contemporary ceramic artist renowned for her saiseki-zōgan (“colored stone inlay”) technique, in which pigmented clay is meticulously carved and inlaid to create intricate, mosaic-like surfaces. Educated at Kyoto Seika University and the Tekisui Museum Ceramic Institute, she produces abstract, architectonic forms inspired in part by the light, shadow, and spatial sensibility of traditional Noh theater. She was first exhibited in 1981 at the Women’s Association of Ceramic Art and was awarded that year. She took the grand prize at the 1985 Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition, and from then her list of exhibitions both within Japan and out is extensive. Honored with the Kyoto Art and Culture Award, Kishi is celebrated for transforming clay into geometric, light-infused objects that merge rigorous craftsmanship with a meditative, sculptural presence. Her works are held in major museum collections worldwide, including the Ashmloean Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum, Chazen Museum of Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Faenza International Ceramic Museum, Hamilton Art Gallery in Australia, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN, Musée Cernuschi, National Museum of Scotland, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Arts and Design, Paris Musée national de céramique, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Sekiguchi Museum, Seto City Art Museum, Taipei County Yingee Ceramics Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum and Yale University Art Gallery among others. For more on this artist see Soaring Voices (2007) or Touch Fire (2009) or New Forms, New Voices (2017).
