Public Opening Day of Wild Earth: JB Blunk and Toshiko Takaezu
March 7, 2025
10:00 AM–5:00 PM
Location: CMA
Join us for the public opening day of Wild Earth: JB Blunk and Toshiko Takaezu.
Wild Earth is the first museum exhibition to pair these virtuosic artists, whose experiments across a range of handcrafted media—starting with clay—yielded some of the most iconic works of the postwar studio craft movement.
Wild Earth explores Takaezu and Blunk’s parallel creation of handmade worlds, as expressed through objects ranging in scale from monumental ceramics and woodcarvings to tea bowls and jewelry. Placing their work in dialogue, the exhibition highlights a shared interest in organic forms and patterns of growth, as inspired by garden vegetables, river stones, weathered timber, and the land and seascapes of the Pacific Rim.
Organized by Daniel Marcus, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Wild Earth brings together around 200 works from private and public collections, including twenty ceramic works gifted by Takaezu to the museum in 2007—the first time this collection has been shown in its entirety.
Wild Earth is the first museum exhibition to pair these virtuosic artists, whose experiments across a range of handcrafted media—starting with clay—yielded some of the most iconic works of the postwar studio craft movement.
Wild Earth explores Takaezu and Blunk’s parallel creation of handmade worlds, as expressed through objects ranging in scale from monumental ceramics and woodcarvings to tea bowls and jewelry. Placing their work in dialogue, the exhibition highlights a shared interest in organic forms and patterns of growth, as inspired by garden vegetables, river stones, weathered timber, and the land and seascapes of the Pacific Rim.
Organized by Daniel Marcus, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Wild Earth brings together around 200 works from private and public collections, including twenty ceramic works gifted by Takaezu to the museum in 2007—the first time this collection has been shown in its entirety.
