Kayoko Hoshino
Kayoko Hoshino (星野 佳代子, Hoshino Kayoko, born 1949, Kyushu, Japan) is a Japanese ceramicist. Hoshino first developed an interest in ceramics while studying European history in Kyoto, the ceramics capital of Japan. Her work draws inspiration from nature.
Kayoko Hoshino
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- 1949 · Fukuoka.
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- Japan
- Occupation
- ceramicist · potter
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Kayoko Hoshino (星野 佳代子, Hoshino Kayoko, born 1949, Kyushu, Japan) is a Japanese ceramicist. Hoshino first developed an interest in ceramics while studying European history in Kyoto, the ceramics capital of Japan. Her work draws inspiration from nature.
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She says of her process, “I often go for a walk in the mountains around this area as a break between working sessions, and I often feel a longing to express the natural expansiveness and monumentality of the landscape in my work.”
Cutout 11-2, 2011. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2015.442.3). Untitled, 2006. Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2012.637).
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1949
Kayoko Hoshino born at Fukuoka.
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Hoshino mixes red and white clay together by kneading them until she notices the clay creating a uniquely organic form. “Sometimes in the moment when I am kneading I notice that the shape is beautiful, with lovely movement," she says. Upon reaching this moment, she utilizes a wire tool to texturize the surface along the clay body’s contours and to hollow out the piece to accentuate its natural form.
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