SHIGEMASA HIGASHIDA

Harmony of Clay and Glaze

April 5 – May 3, 2025

Shigemasa Higashida

Oribe Round Plate, 2025

16.14h x 16.14w x 4.13d in

HH007

$2,800.00

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Shigemasa Higashida

Oribe Plate, 2025

4.53h x 21.65w x 12.99d in

HH008

$ 3,200.00

Shigemasa Higashida

Oribe Plate, 2025

3.15h x 20.87w x 11.42d in

HH010

$ 2,750.00

Shigemasa Higashida

Oribe Long and Thin platter, 2025

2.56h x 7.48w x 28.74d in

HH018

$2,600.00

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Shigemasa Higashida

Oribe Covered Jar or Vase, 2025

9.25h x 8.07w x 13.98d in

HH011

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Shigemasa Higashida

Oribe Box, 2025

7.48h x 7.68w x 10.63d in

HH009

$ 2,745.00

Shigemasa Higashida

Oribe Hand Bucket, 2025

13.58h x 8.27w x 10.83d in

HH019

$ 2,900.00

Shigemasa Higashida

Oribe Water Jar, 2025

8.27h x 7.87w x 8.86d in

HH012

$ 2,745.00

Shigemasa Higashida

Oribe Vase, 2025

12.60h x 5.43w x 5.91d in

HH021

$ 1,800.00

Shigemasa Higashida

Oribe Vase with Waterfall, 2025

12.80h x 7.87w x 7.68d in

HH014

$ 2,250.00

Shigemasa Higashida

Oribe vase with lid, 2025

13.19h x 8.27w x 7.48d in

HH020

$ 2,375.00

Shigemasa Higashida

Ash Glazed Tea Bowl, 2025

4.45h x 5.31w x 5.31d in

HH023

$ 2,375.00

Shigemasa Higashida

Oribe Tea Bowl, 2025

5h x 4.72w x 4.53d in

HH022

$ 2,375.00

Shigemasa Higashida

Shino Tea Bowl, 2025

5.04h x 4.13w x 4.13d in

HH016

$ 2,375.00

Shigemasa Higashida

Oribe Tea Bowl, 2025

5.04h x 3.94w x 3.94d in

HH015

$ 2,375.00

Shigemasa Higashida

Kuro Oribe Tea Bowl, 2025

5h x 4.72w x 5d in

HH017

SOLD

Shigemasa Higashida

Kiseto Covered Jar, 2025

9.65h x 10.24w x 10.83d in

HH013

$ 2,745.00

Shigemasa Higashida

Oribe Incense Burner, 2025

6.57h x 5.71w x 8.27d in

HH025

SOLD

Shigemasa Higashida

Oribe Tea Caddy, 2025

6.50h x 4.33w x 4.25d in

HH026

SOLD

Shigemasa Higashida

Ash Glazed Tea Caddy, 2025

5.83h x 3.46w x 3.54d in

HH027

SOLD

Shigemasa Higashida

Oribe Incense Burner, 2025

6.57h x 5.71w x 8.27d in

HH024

$ 1,600.00

Press Release

SHIGEMASA HIGASHIDA: Harmony of Clay and Glaze April 5 – May 3, 2025

Lucy Lacoste Gallery is thrilled to present Shigemasa Higashida: Harmony of Clay and Glaze the third solo exhibition with the revered Japanese ceramic artist April 5 - May 3, 2025, at the Gallery in Concord, MA. This exhibition, many years in the planning, features the artist’s signature creative use of lush and nuanced glazes in dialogue with the many expressions unique to the potential of clay such as roughness, smoothness, tearing and faceting.

Shigemasa Higashida (1955), takes his inspiration from the slightly imperfect in nature. At first glance we are awed by the lush visuals of glaze only to become aware of the geometric planes and plateaus to which the color is aligned. Again and again, he re-invents nature.

A master of glaze as well as form, Higashida is distinguished by his rich green Oribe glazes, which flow and cascade into white waterfalls and deep emerald lagoons and pools of water. He is also known for his creative use of Shino, an esoteric glaze that goes from a reddish brown to white with bubbles and can trap carbon to create unusual effects on functional and experimental forms. The artist is also fond of using Black (Kuro Oribe) with White for a dramatic expressionistic effect.

In Oribe Round Plate the torn edges connect us to features of land and stone with the inviting green of Oribe running down the land formations to pool in the basin at the bottom.
His rectangular Oribe Plate does this as well and looks like a landscape seen from above.

His teabowls become canvases for special effects.
In Oribe Teabowl with Orange, the Oribe green is used poetically in contrast to the dry orange slip to make us think geologically and imaginatively.

Kuro Oribe Teabowl is a tour de force of an abstract composition in black and white utilizing glaze relating to form.

Oribe Tea Caddy is a symphony of shading from the green of Oribe glaze fading to amber with accents of aqua all on a very nuanced small form that generates a slightly out of this world nature experience.
Ash Glazed Tea Caddy conveys the artist’s intimate experience with glaze and form-- like a sensuous body lightly touched by the hand. Or like a geologic outcropping only seen on the moon or in Japan.

In a time when ceramic artists often eschew the properties of clay and glaze in favor of concept, Shigemasa Higashida embraces their capabilities and relishes the dance between the two. In the process, as seen in Harmony of Clay and Glaze Higashida he leads us to places of which we are unaware yet recognize in our imaginations.

 

 

 

SAVE THE DATE!

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, April 5th 4-6 pm
ARTIST TALK: Sunday, April 6th at 2pm

The exhibition opens on Saturday, April 5th, at 4:00 PM with a reception for artist Shigemasa Higashida who is traveling from Japan. An artist talk will be held on Sunday, April 6th, at 2:00 PM. Both events are open to the public and will take place at 25 Main St., Concord, MA.

“Shigemasa Higashida is making some of the most innovative contemporary ceramic works in Japan. Known for his Shino, Oribe and Black and White his work blurs the line between the vessel and sculptural forms”.
-Jeff Shapiro, American ceramic artist

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