2009
A descendant of Agano ware ceramists with a family history spanning hundreds of years, Niho Kozuru brings time-honored Japanese craft traditions into the 21st century with her colorful contemporary and abstract sculptures.
At the age of 12, Kozuru moved to the United States with her family after her father, ceramic artist Hajime Gen Kozuru, became a visiting fellow in Harvard University’s Ceramics Program. In her youth, Kozuru was inspired by her father’s work. Later she gained an appreciation of American architecture, crafts and decorative arts, particularly in New England, where she grew up. Kozuru attended the Parsons School of Design in New York, where she obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She then studied at the University of Hawaii, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts.
Now based in Boston, Kozuru explores the shapes of turned wood and ceramics, often using casts of historic New England finials, urns and balusters. At the start of her sculpting career, Kozuru experimented with materials such as clay, glass and metal before settling on translucent cast rubber. She infuses it with bold, vibrant colors to emit a "positive energy,” as seen in many of her abstract sculptures, such as Liquid Sunshine: Spring Moss (2009), Longfellow Tower (2016) and the Lantern Column series (1998–2014).
Kozuru has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Japan. Her works are featured in several major collections, including the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the Sheldon Museum of Art, the Fuller Craft Museum, the Danforth Art Museum, the Boston Children’s Hospital and the Nogata Tanio Museum in Japan.
On 1stDibs, find a range of Niho Kozuru’s sculptures and more art.
Liquid Sunshine: Lotus
By Niho Kozuru
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Title: Liquid Sunshine: Lotus Year: 2009 Medium: Hand-dyed cast polymer rubber, painted steel Size: H 33 x W 20 x D 20 (in) Niho Kozuru is a Japanese-born mixed media artist based ...
Steel
Liquid Sunshine: Amber
By Niho Kozuru
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Title: Liquid Sunshine: Gear Column Year: 2009 Medium: Hand-dyed cast polymer rubber, painted steel Size: H 24 x W 10 x D 10 (in) Niho Kozuru is a Japanese-born mixed media artist ...
Steel
Liquid Sunshine: Gear Column
By Niho Kozuru
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Title: Liquid Sunshine: Gear Column Year: 2009 Medium: Hand-dyed cast polymer rubber, painted steel Size: H 24 x W 10 x D 10 (in) Niho Kozuru is a Japanese-born mixed media artist ...
Steel
Lantern Column II
By Niho Kozuru
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Title: Lantern Column II Year: 2019 Medium: Mold blown glass, cast polymer rubber, steel, cast iron Size: H 47 X W 6 X D 6 (in) ( metal base 14 X 14 in) Niho Kozuru is a Japanese...
Steel, Iron
Lantern Column VI
By Niho Kozuru
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Title: Lantern Column VI Year: 2019 Medium: Mold blown glass, cast polymer rubber, steel, cast iron Size: 69.5 W 7 X D 7 (in) ( metal base 18 X 18 in.) Niho Kozuru is a Japanes...
Steel, Iron
Golden Drops - Rich Ochre, Soft Green and Golden Yellow 67 X 78
By Antonio Ugarte
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Golden Drops- Rich Ochre, soft Green and Golden Yellow 67 X 78 oil on canvas Antonio Ugarte paints water as a reflection of the spirit, a form of meditation. He sees water as “a pri...
Canvas, Oil
Spring Green Stacked
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Alex Gabriel Bernstein presents a bold and refreshing exploration of visual form and storytelling through the art of glass. Bernstein skillfully combines metaphor with the impact and...
Steel
Bellezza Mizimah
Located in Missouri, MO
Signed on Base. *This is "one of the finest and most unique from this series" - Toots Zynsky When I hear music, it translates into color. —Toots Zynsky Toots Zynsky’s distinctive heat-formed filet de verre (glass thread) vessels enjoy a widespread popularity and deserved acclaim for their often extraordinary and always unique explorations in color. Defying categorization, her pieces inhabit a region all their own, interweaving the traditions of painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts. Mary Ann Toots Zynsky was born in 1951 and raised in Massachusetts. Known professionally and to her friends as Toots Zynsky, she received her bachelor of fine arts in 1973 at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence. There, she was one of a group of pioneering artists studying with Dale Chihuly, who made studio glass a worldwide phenomenon. “Glassmaking was wide open,” Zynsky remembers. “Hot glass slipped through the air, pulled and stretched. There was music and the furnaces were roaring. . . and everyone was working in concert. . . It was this material that hadn’t been widely explored as an artist’s medium. Everything was possible, and there was so much to be discovered. There were no rules. You could do anything you wanted.” In Chihuly’s words, her class was a group with extraordinary energy, amounting to “the most creative, highly charged institutional experience I’d ever been a part of.” Among Zynsky’s classmates at RISD were other artists who went on to build successful careers, such as James Carpenter, Bruce Chao, Dan Dailey, and Therman Statom...
Glass
M.080601 by Toshio Iezumi - Glass sculpture, green, abstract, column
By Toshio Iezumi
Located in Paris, FR
M.080601 is a glass sculpture by Japanese contemporary artist Toshio Iezumi, dimensions are 130 × 20 × 10 cm (51.2 × 7.9 × 3.9 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part ...
Glass
Courmayer
By Afro Celotto 1
Located in Miami, FL
Murano glass blown in Venice by Afro Celotto. Afro Celotto is an Italian glass artist known for his intricate and colorful glass sculptures. He was born in Murano, Italy in 1963, and...
Glass
M.140801 by Toshio Iezumi - Contemporary glass sculpture, green, abstract
By Toshio Iezumi
Located in Paris, FR
M.140801 is a glass sculpture by Japanese contemporary artist Toshio Iezumi, dimensions are 100 × 10.5 × 7 cm (39.4 × 4.1 × 2.8 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part...
Glass
Green Feather Beads Mesa Sculpture - Abstract Powder Coated Steel
By Christopher Thomson
Located in Santa Fe, NM
It was the tumult of the sixties that compelled me to drop out of Swarthmore College, move “back to the land” and become an intuitive artist. I believed that if we were to survive a...
Steel
