Akio takamori biography of michael lewis

Printer version. Unknown Apprenticed with a master folk potter, Koishiwara, Kyushu, Japan. Akio Takamori who is known for his coil-built figurative sculptures in which the narrative painting defines the form. The use of figurative, narrative surfaces is also carried through to his wheel thrown vessels. His work is often autobiographical, drawing on his life in Japan, his family, as well as mythological themes.

His surface drawings of male and female figures, often in sexual positions, swirl around the outside and the inside of his vessels. He has also created a large body of work on paper. In Takamori was the first place recipient of the Virginia A. Groot Foundation Award.

Akio is one of the few "clay" people who I think of as an artist first and foremost.

He emigrated to the United States in to study with Ken Ferguson. The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, Indiana. Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin. Spencer Museum of Art, Laurence, Kansas. Clark, Garth. American Ceramics to the Present.