Mon November 18, 2024
Matter and Form: Jonathan Kline and Takashi Endo
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MARCH in San Francisco presents Matter and Form, a two-person exhibition showcasing work from artists Jonathan Kline and Takashi Endo, opening thru November 18th.
Matter & Form brings together two practices led by material and informed by tradition that result in forms reduced to their essence. American artist Jonathan Kline and Japanese artist Takashi Endo each work with specific, regional materials which are then sculpted into modern interpretations of what has historically been craft. With a sympathetic approach to tradition and an entirely novel application of materials, both artists work in a stark palette derived from the organic expressions in each respective region.
Artist Jonthan Kline is a sculptor and basket maker based in New York's Finger Lakes Region. Kline's process begins in the black ash and hickory woodlands surrounding his homestead. There, he strips bark from a selection of logs, crushing the spongy fibers found between growth layers by steel mallet before peeling long strips from the logs, cutting to size, and shaving by knife. Pieces are lashed into functional baskets or non-functional sculptural vessels and finished in linseed oil or with casein and mineral pigments. Kline was first introduced to the art of black ash baskets in 1980 while working with Newt Washburn, a fourth-generation basket maker of Abnaki and European descent living in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Black ash basketry is a distinct process, working the material which grows in isolated pockets of the Northeast and southeastern Canada and retains the unique ability to separate along its annual growth layers. With a studied approach perfected in the decades to follow, Kline has developed his own technique and relationship with the historical material and medium while exploring the artfulness of the sculptural vessel.
Based in the Kanagawa prefecture of Japan, ceramic artist Takashi Endo presents organic textures in the shape of incredibly lightweight ceramics. Through his ceramic forms, Endo explores notions of fragility, durability, and Enso, the Zen interpretation of the circle. With a self-taught practice spanning decades, Endo works with a combination of porous clays, most notably purion clay sourced from the Iga and Shigaraki regions, part of the Six Ancient Kilns of Japan. After a reduction firing method followed by cold reduction, purion clay reveals natural artifacts within such as feldspar and other minerals. Endo intentionally presents these organic textures, finishing pieces in a raw, monochromatic palette to express the true nature of the clay.
October 17 - November 18, 2024
MARCH
3075 Sacramento Street
San Francisco, CA
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Matter & Form brings together two practices led by material and informed by tradition that result in forms reduced to their essence. American artist Jonathan Kline and Japanese artist Takashi Endo each work with specific, regional materials which are then sculpted into modern interpretations of what has historically been craft. With a sympathetic approach to tradition and an entirely novel application of materials, both artists work in a stark palette derived from the organic expressions in each respective region.
Artist Jonthan Kline is a sculptor and basket maker based in New York's Finger Lakes Region. Kline's process begins in the black ash and hickory woodlands surrounding his homestead. There, he strips bark from a selection of logs, crushing the spongy fibers found between growth layers by steel mallet before peeling long strips from the logs, cutting to size, and shaving by knife. Pieces are lashed into functional baskets or non-functional sculptural vessels and finished in linseed oil or with casein and mineral pigments. Kline was first introduced to the art of black ash baskets in 1980 while working with Newt Washburn, a fourth-generation basket maker of Abnaki and European descent living in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Black ash basketry is a distinct process, working the material which grows in isolated pockets of the Northeast and southeastern Canada and retains the unique ability to separate along its annual growth layers. With a studied approach perfected in the decades to follow, Kline has developed his own technique and relationship with the historical material and medium while exploring the artfulness of the sculptural vessel.
Based in the Kanagawa prefecture of Japan, ceramic artist Takashi Endo presents organic textures in the shape of incredibly lightweight ceramics. Through his ceramic forms, Endo explores notions of fragility, durability, and Enso, the Zen interpretation of the circle. With a self-taught practice spanning decades, Endo works with a combination of porous clays, most notably purion clay sourced from the Iga and Shigaraki regions, part of the Six Ancient Kilns of Japan. After a reduction firing method followed by cold reduction, purion clay reveals natural artifacts within such as feldspar and other minerals. Endo intentionally presents these organic textures, finishing pieces in a raw, monochromatic palette to express the true nature of the clay.
October 17 - November 18, 2024
MARCH
3075 Sacramento Street
San Francisco, CA
MARCH in San Francisco presents Matter and Form, a two-person exhibition showcasing work from artists Jonathan Kline and Takashi Endo, opening thru November 18th.
Matter & Form brings together two practices led by material and informed by tradition that result in forms reduced to their essence. American artist Jonathan Kline and Japanese artist Takashi Endo each work with specific, regional materials which are then sculpted into modern interpretations of what has historically been craft. With a sympathetic approach to tradition and an entirely novel application of materials, both artists work in a stark palette derived from the organic expressions in each respective region.
Artist Jonthan Kline is a sculptor and basket maker based in New York's Finger Lakes Region. Kline's process begins in the black ash and hickory woodlands surrounding his homestead. There, he strips bark from a selection of logs, crushing the spongy fibers found between growth layers by steel mallet before peeling long strips from the logs, cutting to size, and shaving by knife. Pieces are lashed into functional baskets or non-functional sculptural vessels and finished in linseed oil or with casein and mineral pigments. Kline was first introduced to the art of black ash baskets in 1980 while working with Newt Washburn, a fourth-generation basket maker of Abnaki and European descent living in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Black ash basketry is a distinct process, working the material which grows in isolated pockets of the Northeast and southeastern Canada and retains the unique ability to separate along its annual growth layers. With a studied approach perfected in the decades to follow, Kline has developed his own technique and relationship with the historical material and medium while exploring the artfulness of the sculptural vessel.
Based in the Kanagawa prefecture of Japan, ceramic artist Takashi Endo presents organic textures in the shape of incredibly lightweight ceramics. Through his ceramic forms, Endo explores notions of fragility, durability, and Enso, the Zen interpretation of the circle. With a self-taught practice spanning decades, Endo works with a combination of porous clays, most notably purion clay sourced from the Iga and Shigaraki regions, part of the Six Ancient Kilns of Japan. After a reduction firing method followed by cold reduction, purion clay reveals natural artifacts within such as feldspar and other minerals. Endo intentionally presents these organic textures, finishing pieces in a raw, monochromatic palette to express the true nature of the clay.
October 17 - November 18, 2024
MARCH
3075 Sacramento Street
San Francisco, CA
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Matter & Form brings together two practices led by material and informed by tradition that result in forms reduced to their essence. American artist Jonathan Kline and Japanese artist Takashi Endo each work with specific, regional materials which are then sculpted into modern interpretations of what has historically been craft. With a sympathetic approach to tradition and an entirely novel application of materials, both artists work in a stark palette derived from the organic expressions in each respective region.
Artist Jonthan Kline is a sculptor and basket maker based in New York's Finger Lakes Region. Kline's process begins in the black ash and hickory woodlands surrounding his homestead. There, he strips bark from a selection of logs, crushing the spongy fibers found between growth layers by steel mallet before peeling long strips from the logs, cutting to size, and shaving by knife. Pieces are lashed into functional baskets or non-functional sculptural vessels and finished in linseed oil or with casein and mineral pigments. Kline was first introduced to the art of black ash baskets in 1980 while working with Newt Washburn, a fourth-generation basket maker of Abnaki and European descent living in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Black ash basketry is a distinct process, working the material which grows in isolated pockets of the Northeast and southeastern Canada and retains the unique ability to separate along its annual growth layers. With a studied approach perfected in the decades to follow, Kline has developed his own technique and relationship with the historical material and medium while exploring the artfulness of the sculptural vessel.
Based in the Kanagawa prefecture of Japan, ceramic artist Takashi Endo presents organic textures in the shape of incredibly lightweight ceramics. Through his ceramic forms, Endo explores notions of fragility, durability, and Enso, the Zen interpretation of the circle. With a self-taught practice spanning decades, Endo works with a combination of porous clays, most notably purion clay sourced from the Iga and Shigaraki regions, part of the Six Ancient Kilns of Japan. After a reduction firing method followed by cold reduction, purion clay reveals natural artifacts within such as feldspar and other minerals. Endo intentionally presents these organic textures, finishing pieces in a raw, monochromatic palette to express the true nature of the clay.
October 17 - November 18, 2024
MARCH
3075 Sacramento Street
San Francisco, CA
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