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Kaneko’s mother and father open their dental practice, which remains in the same office until 2005, when Mrs. Kaneko retires at the age of 87. Kaneko continues his schooling at Hakusui Elementary School in Minami-ku, Nagoya.
Nov 2, 2021 · Unexpected scale. Contrasting patterns. Groundbreaking techniques. Poetic spontaneity. These qualities and many more have made Jun Kaneko one of the most prominent artists to come out of the 1950s and ’60s California Clay Movement.
- Finding Clay Through Serendipity
- Experimenting with Scale
- The Figure Surfaces
In 1966, Marer introduced Kaneko to Voulkos, who accepted him as an assistant in his studio at the University of California, Berkeley. Incited more by the general fire of Voulkos’ creativity than by its specific manifestation in Abstract Expressionism, Kaneko produced some vaguely anthropomorphic sculptures painted with broad swatches of thin and d...
TheDangos of the Omaha and Fremont Projects established what might be described as the tentative grounding of an archetype in matter. Like the motifs of Willem de Kooning’s Woman series or Robert Motherwell’s Elegies to the Spanish Republic the Dango is a primal form to be explored through variation of detail rather than metamorphosis. Consequently...
Originating in the multitude of ceramic tourist trinkets made and sold at Shigaraki, Kaneko’s rendition of the Tanuki seems a fugitive from Japanese anime, a sprightly embodiment of the contemporary that jolts the universal and eternal gravitas of his earlier work. Gathered in brightly colored and boldly patterned packs in public spaces, perhaps mo...
Jun Kaneko was born in Nagoya, Japan, in 1942. He began studying painting and came to the U.S. in 1963 to continue his art studies.
Jun Kaneko was born in Nagoya, Japan, in 1942. He studied painting with Satoshi Ogawa during his adolescence. In 1963, he came to the United States to continue his studies at Chouinard Art Institute when his introduction to Fred Marer drew him to sculptural ceramics.
Apr 1, 2020 · George Kinzo Kaneko was born October 10, 1865 in Hanamaki, a city in the Iwate Prefecture on the north end of Japan’s main Honshu Island. He was the fifth of seven brothers in a well-to-do family that belonged to Japan’s Samurai class [15]. Kaneko was, in fact, “the son of a samurai” [18] .
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Mar 3, 2017 · In 1982, by then in his mid-thirties, he finally made a breakthrough — he found and met with Kaneko’s 77-year-old younger brother, who brought her three worn pocket diaries containing the only extant record of the 512 children’s poems she had written in her blink of a lifetime, most never published.
