Kimiyo Mishima Solo Show
VIP Preview: Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 11 AM 〜 6 PM
Dates: Thursday, February 2 〜 Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Venue: Sokyo
Sokyo Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Kimiyo Mishima. This follows her first solo exhibition at Sokyo Gallery in 2017.
Since the 1960’s, Mishima has been concerned about the environmental and social effects of our mass-consumption and technology-driven society—the mounds of trash, the dangers of uncontrolled information. She started her career working in figurative painting, and over the decades she has explored a variety of approaches and materials, including abstract painting, sculpture, etching, ceramics and large-scale installations, often making works using discarded, found objects or crafting ceramics to mimic everyday objects. She pioneered the technique of printing realistic exteriors on ceramic shapes of well-known consumer products, thus reproducing the “trash” of modern consumption via breakable ceramics. This exhibition will feature an installation of ceramic advertisement fliers, anearly work from the 1960s, experimental sculpture, rare ceramics from the 1980s, etchings, and two of her latest works.
