Scholarly Talk: Joe Earle on “Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan”

Join Joe Earle, expert on Japanese ceramics and Radical Clay catalogue author, for a discussion of the significance of several of the stunning works on view in Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan, which opens today. Radical Clay features thirty-six contemporary ceramic artists — all women — represented by works selected from the private collection of Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz. All have explored the technical and conceptual possibilities of clay in ways that are inventive, expressive, and often surprising.

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Read more about Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan. 

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Joe Earle, Bonhams Global Senior Consultant for Japanese Art, has worked in the East Asian art field for the last 50 years. He has held leadership positions in Asian art departments at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and was Director of Japan Society Gallery in New York from 2007 to 2012. Joe has organized more than two dozen exhibitions in Britain, Japan, Italy, and the United States and written, translated, or edited books and catalogs on aspects of Japanese culture ranging from contemporary art and design through to samurai sword-fittings, netsuke, bamboo art, flower-arrangement bronzes, lacquer, and the art of the Meiji era.