Ippodo Gallery

About the Gallery
Ippodo Gallery is a cultural bridge to Japan’s living master artists.  Founded in Tokyo (1996-), the New York gallery (2008-) presents fine handcrafted and rare works created using traditional materials and methods.  Each piece selected embodies Japanese aesthetic sensitivity that is born of a spiritual bond with nature.  Ippodo's exhibition program features unique objects — fine ceramics, lacquerware, metal crafts, sculpture, paintings, and works on paper — that celebrate human invention, the natural world, and sublime beauty.

About the Presentation
Ippodo Gallery presents the group exhibition Voyage Blue, an invitation to embark on an odyssey in Japanese culture. Acclaimed for his revival of the ancient reverse-side painting style urazaishiki, Masaaki Miyasako is one of Japan’s foremost living painters. His six-foot-long screen Firework ‘Aqua’ is a vision of the fisherman’s cast net: a timeless symbol of opportunity and good fortune. Working with the best materials available in Japan today, Miyasako has cultivated an unparalleled pointillism-like technique, beginning in the center of the painting and emanating outwards in an expanding spiral. His work will be juxtaposed with tea bowls, ceramic sculptures, and glass from nine Japanese artists who are introducing new design perspectives while remaining deeply rooted in the traditions of earth-wrought materials.