2008
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: 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: Moss
By Niho Kozuru
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Title: Liquid Sunshine: Moss Year: 2009 Medium: Hand-dyed cast polymer rubber, painted steel Size: H 33 x W 9.5 x D 9.5 (in) Niho Kozuru is a Japanese-born mixed media artist based...
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
PLexus 3
By José Castro
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Acrylic strips are mounted on an acrylic panel with a handsome double frame. Jose Castro was born in Matanzas, Cuba in 1947. In 1961, when he was 14, he was sent to Miami to escape ...
Acrylic
"Lotus" - Vintage Glass Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
Resurrect Studio, “Lotus,” Vintage Glass Sculpture, 11 x 11 x 8.5 in. “Lotus” is a delicate vintage glass sculpture by Resurrect Studio, the collaborative practice of Nancy Wu and J...
Glass, Resin
Turkish Delight
By Robert Kvenild
Located in Napa, CA
Robert Kvenild took his BA from the UC Santa Cruz and went on to SF State University for his MA. His whimsical, colorful ceramic pieces have been in many solo and group shows throug...
Ceramic
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
Icare Abstract Resin Sculpture, Slender Design, Contemporary, 2010+
By Patrice Breteau
Located in Miami, FL
Icare is a tall abstract resin sculpture made by Patrice Breteau, a French contemporary artist. Very slender shape, this resin sculpture is available in eight different colors, all r...
Resin
"Desire" Abstract Sculpture 84" x 13" x 13" in by Shawn Kolodny
By Shawn Kolodny
Located in Culver City, CA
"Desire" Abstract Sculpture 84" x 13" x 13" in by Shawn Kolodny Medium: Steel and Automotive Paint Shawn Kolodny is a Miami-based artist renowned for his immersive, large-scale ins...
Stainless Steel
Mistral
By Gabriel Sobin
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Gabriel Sobin was born in 1971 in Salon de Provence, France, to an English mother and an American father. Sobin studied at l’École d’Arts Appliqués ...
Alabaster, Marble
