Collection Highlight: Makoto Yabe
Makoto Yabe, Untitled, from the series "Song of the Wind, Blue," 2003, white clay with blue glaze, oxidation fired, 13 1/2" x 10 1/2" x 9", 16" x 9" x 8", 17" x 8" x 7 1/2", Museum Purchase
Sculpture Terrace Gallery
April 30 – July 31, 2005
Opening Reception: Friday, May 6, 6 – 9 pm
The Museum is delighted to announce the purchase of three ceramic sculptures by distinguished artist and long-time DeCordova Museum School instructor Makoto Yabe. These three blue pieces from the Song of the Wind series join an earlier Yabe vessel in the Museum’s Collection, Trace III, from 1987. All four works will be exhibited in the Fourth Floor Sculpture Terrace Gallery from late April through the end of July.
Makoto Yabe creates intuitively formed ceramics that blend tradition and innovation and eastern and western ceramic traditions. Song of the Wind is an ongoing series that has evolved over ten years. Meant to be seen in small groupings, each blue sculptural form is differently shaped and sized, bending over in one or two folds that suggest human and animal forms.
Yabe’s artwork has been exhibited and collected widely by institutions, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Peabody Essex Museum; the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design; and The Smithsonian Institution.
