Gleaming golden lacquer coats the inside of this dark glass bowl by Okushima Keiji enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Hari Kyushitsu Wan Hakuoshi (Glass Bowl Lined with Lacquer). The glass is blue at the top, settling to olive green then to red tinge spotted with color.The bowl is 13.5 cm (5-1/2 inches) diameter, 8 cm (just over 3 inches) tall and in excellent condition, directly from the artist.
Okushima Keiji was born in Kyoto in 1977, and raised in rural Shiga prefecture just over the mountains from his birthplace. In 2000 he graduated Ritsumeikan University, and entered the Toyama Garasu Zokei Kenkyusho Glass Research Facility, graduating there in 2002. After working in a glass studio for several years, he established his own studio in Shiga in 2010. Since he has focused on the world of private exhibitions as his preferred venue. That said, he has been accepted into the Glass Craft Triennale in 2010, the National Craft Exhibition (Nihon Kurafuto Ten) in 2011, and received the Iwata prize at the Tableware Taishoten in 2012. 2013 saw his work in display in the Lansing At Gallery (US) and in Korea where he would be seen again in 2014 and 2015. From 2016 to 2019 his list of exhibitions is impressive, including exhibitions throughout Japan as well as New York and Korea.
