hiroshi yamano glass artist
Hiroshi Yamano was born in 1956 on the Japanese island of Kyushu and studied history at Chuo University Tokyo before taking a year off to travelHe visited Scandinavia to investigate contemporary art glass and then went to California where he discovered the California College of Arts and Crafts Oakland CAYamano then returned to Japan to finish his degree and save. There is a sense of hushed movement as the artist visually captures the poetry of flora and fauna and lures the viewer into an easy communion with nature.
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. Hiroshi Yamano has lived and worked both in Japan and the United States. He is a co-founder of Ezra Glass Studio and Chairperson of the Osaka University of the Arts Glass Program. Glass sculptures by Hiroshi Yamano including Nagare series and Scenes from Japan series.
Contact Galleria Silecchia for more on Japanese glass artist Hiroshi Yamano. Born in Fukuoka Japan in 1956 Hiroshi Yamano is recognized as one of Japans foremost and innovative glass artists. Yamano has long identified with fish swimming the oceans as he so often traverses the vast waters between continents in his own life.
Hiroshi Yamano is a Japanese glass artist who draws inspiration from traditional Japanese culture and modern European and American glassmaking. The artist reserves all reproduction. He spent most of his professional career studying glass in the US.
1986 Rakow Commission Artist. He is a master glass artist whose work has been called A triumphant blend of both sculptural beauty and graphic intelligence. Hiroshi Yamano A recipient of the coveted Rakow Award from the Corning Museum of Glass in 1990 his blown pieces combine qualities of classical Japanese vessel form and decoration within a uniquely personal idiom.
Hiroshi Yamano started his From East to West series in the late 1980s while he was a graduate student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Hiroshi has long identified with fish swimming the oceans as he so often traverses the vast waters between continents in his own life. Hiroshi Yamanos glass vessels are gorgeously painted with peaceful scenes of natureunfurling blossoms delicate birds and striated skies.
He then studied at prestigious schools throughout the United States and Japan. Japan is a country that has four. Prices and availability are subject to change.
Hiroshi Yamano is a key figure in contemporary glass art lauded for nature-inspired sculptures that fuse traditional and contemporary materials and techniquesYamano studied art in his native Japan and in the US and his recurrent fish motif. From the Rochester Institute of. Japanese artist Hiroshi Yamano has been working with glass since 1975.
There is a sense of hushed movement as the artist visually captures the poetry of flora and fauna and lures the viewer into an easy communion with nature. Working in the tradition of blown glass this accomplished artist has translated his own personal experiences as a man continually traveling between the cultures of east and west into universal statements that. Glass art for sale at Holsten Galleries also includes works by Steven Weinberg Sidney Hutter Nancy Callan and Alex Bernstein.
Before he started to study glass extensively Yamano took some time and traveled through Europe. Blown and Hot Sculpted Glass with Gold and Silver Leaf Engraving and. And Japan before becoming an.
His work with its repeated imagery of fish that are often half in and half out of water mirrors his personal struggle balancing two cultures and his journey through life as he. While studio glass developed later in Japan than in the United States and Europe there are many influential Japanese artists working in glass today. Hiroshi Yamano began his serious study of glass at the California College of Arts and Crafts continued his studies at the Tokyo Glass Art Institute and received his MFA.
Hiroshi Yamanos glass vessels are gorgeously painted with peaceful scenes of nature unfurling blossoms delicate birds and striated skies. He is known for his intricate vessels and sculptures that incorporate mixed materials including copper. The medium drew Yamano in after he saw an exhibition of Scandinavian glass in Kyoto.
His work is included in such significant public collections as the Corning Glass Museum the Wheaton Glass Museum the Chrysler Museum and the Grand Crystal Gallery of Taiwan. Sculptor Hiroshi Yamano has repeatedly explored these issues throughout his career as he has used the fish as his elusive alter ego. In 1991 he was awarded the prestigious Rakow Commission by the Corning Museum of Glass.
A much vaunted series East to West begun while he was studying and working in America incorporates silver leaf electroplated and. He received the 2015 Peoples Choice Award from the Museum of Glass-Tacoma. 1125 x 1775 x 155 inches.
A career artist and an educator Hiroshi Yamano has helped to establish and fortify the pursuit and study of contemporary glass art in Japan.