SPRING IS HERE
Honma Hideaki, Warm Spring, 1999, 13 x 36 x 8.5 in.
The first sighting of emerging flowers creates mounting excitement in Japan, culminating in countrywide communal revelry as spring hits full bloom. This exhibition is a reminder that we all need beautiful things to experience and to share. Whether inspired to reference spring directly as in Yako Hodo’s tray Early Spring and Tanioka Aiko’s Springtime Flower Basket, or through the seasonal associations with fertility, growth, and nature’s efflorescence seen in Tanabe Mitsuko’s Cultivating Life and Lance Letscher’s Robin’s Egg, images and thoughts of hope and the possibilities of renewal are what guided this selection. • Margo Thoma
Tanabe Mitsuko, Cultivating Life, 2010, 25 x 14 x 14 in.
Kawano Shoko, Ray of Hope, 2018, 12.5 x 15.5 x 14 in.
Lance Letscher, Robin’s Egg, 2020, 8 x 10 in.
Tanioka Aiko, Springtime Flower Basket, 2002, 5.25 x 16 x 16 in.
Erik Benson Stacks (Golden Tower) 2016, 50 x 60 in.
Shono Tokuzo, Sprouting, 2003, 17 x 9.25 x 9.25 in.
Katsushiro Soho, First Grass that Appears in Spring, 2010, 17.75 x 9 x 9 in.
Hirasawa Noboru, Flowering Hedgerows, 2000, 2 x 21.5 x 10.5 in.
Nagakura Kenichi, Calyx, 2016, 10 x 8.5 x 3 in.
Yako Hodo, Early Spring, 2012, 2.25 x 13.5 x 13.5 in.
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