Vetri Glass-Seattle is pleased to present glass artist Takuya Tokizawa in Tempora, his second exhibition with the gallery.  Featured in the show is a series of brightly colored blown glass vessels with loose and organic contours that reflect the "perfect imperfections of nature through bumps, indentations and (fluid) shapes".  Throught Temporal, Tokizawa captures what is ephermeral, a passing moment, and fashions it into something permanent.  Each vessel is a means of perserving the temporal elements of nature while expressing the temporal nature of human memory.

Having grown up in Kiryû City, along the rural perimeter of Tokyo, Japan, Tokizawa has a profound appreciation for nature as well as the different ways in which peoples across the globe view their environment.  His memories of Japan shine as brightly in his mind as the silver that glides and shimmers across the surfaces of his blown glass forms and vessels.  The fleeting silver patterns are abstracted symbols of nature: spring flowerbuds, the autumn moon, the wind, stones, grass, and small creatures.  The precious metal is Tokizawa's ideal vehicle for impressing the significance of those early memories and when teamed with bright colors in the glass the sweetness of remembrance and nostalgia are tenderly expressed. Tokizawa offers the concentrated essence of a moment rather than a realistic representation. 

Takuya Tokizawa owns and operates his own studio in Arlington, Wasington.  He has worked alongside David Levi, Boyd Sugiki, Jim Mongrain, John De Wit, Januscz Pozniak and Dante Marioni at Pilchuck Glass School and Penland School of Crafts in the United States.  Tokizawa has also worked in hot shops across the United Kingdom and Japan, beginning his career at Ohmura Glass Studio in Chiba, Japan.  Tokizawa's work has been included in such publications as 500 Glass Objects and the New Glass Review 29 issued by Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York.

 

 

Contact: Susan Marabito, Director

susan@vetriglass.com

1404 First Avenue, Seattle, Washington  98101

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Image details: Skipper 1, blown glass and silver,  15.5”h x 9”w x 9”d - 2009

Photo: Russell Johnson