Greengrassi is pleased to announce Shio Kusaka’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. The artist will present new ceramics featuring animals.

Shio Kusaka is well known for her ceramic pots, bowls and vases but for her second exhibition at greengrassi, she is presenting a group of 53 small porcelain animals such as cats, zebra, camels, elephants and cheetahs but also dinosaurs of all kind (diplodocus, stegosaurus or tyrannosaurus).

Shio Kusaka adorns her ceramics with marks, grids, and stripes inscribed into the vessels themselves or delineated by color. Working primarily in white, brown, and gray, Kusaka forms the cylindrical and pear-shaped pots in occasionally counter-intuitive combinations of pattern and shape, as in dot 16 (2011), which features concentric dots on a lightly curved vessel, creating an optical quality. Kusaka’s works are distinguished by a subtly imprecise handmade aesthetic imparted by impressions of the artist’s fingers and visible glaze drips.

Shio Kusaka (b. 1972, Japan) received her B.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Kusaka has had solo exhibitions at greengrassi, London (2011); Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY (2010); Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI (2009); Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL (2009); and Tortoise, Venice, CA (2005). Notable group exhibitions include Paul Clay, Salon 94, New York, NY (2011); Dwelling, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY (2011); Banquet of the Jackal, The Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University, Los Angeles, CA (2011); Not Extractions, but Abstractions (Part 2), Clifton Benevento, New York, NY (2010); Multiple Pleasures: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY (2010); Not Extractions, but Abstractions, Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland (2010); Objects, Furniture & Patterns, Art Since the Summer of ’69, New York, NY (2009); Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY (2008); Faith, Champion Fine Art, Culver City, CA (2004); and164 ½ Group Show, Los Angeles, CA (2004).

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Related images

1 Shio Kusaka, Group 1, 2014, porcelainm elephant 3: 2 1/2″ × 2 1/4" / 6.3 × 5.7 cm, camel 2: 2 1/4″ × 2 1/2″ × 1 1/4" / 5.7 × 6.3 × 3.2 cm, camel 1: 3 1/2″ × 5 1/4″ × 1 3/4" / 8.9 × 13.3 × 4.4 cm, zebra 1: 3″ × 4 1/4″ × 1 1/2" / 7.6 × 10.8 × 3.8 cm, Photo: Studio Kusaka. Courtesy of greengrassi, London
2, 4 & 6 Shio Kusaka, Installation view at Greengrassi, London, 2014, Photo: Marcus Leith. Courtesy of greengrassi, London
3 Shio Kusaka, Group 4, 2014, porcelain, rabbit 1: 2″ × 3″ × 1 1/4" / 5 × 7.6 × 3.2 cm, bear 1: 3 1/4″ × 3 3/4″ × 2″ / 8.2 × 9.5 × 5 cm, rhinoceros 2: 2″ × 4 1/2″ × 2″ / 5 × 11.4 × 5 cm, rhinoceros 1: 1 1/2″ × 2 3/4″ × 1″ / 3.8 × 7 × 2.5 cm, Photo: Studio Kusaka. Courtesy of greengrassi, London
5 Shio Kusaka, Group 2, 2014, porcelain, lion 2: 2 1/2″ × 6 1/4″ × 2 1/4" / 6.3 × 15.8 × 5.7 cm, lion 4: 2 1/4″ × 4″ × 1 1/2" / 5.7 × 10.2 × 3.8 cm, cheetah 2: 2 1/4″ × 4″ × 1 1/2" / 5.7 × 10.2 × 3.8 cm, cheetah 1: 1 3/4″ × 3″ × 1″ / 4.5 × 7.6 × 2.5 cm, Photo: Studio Kusaka. Courtesy of greengrassi, London