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森野泰明 Morino Hiroaki Taimei, artist

born 1934

vase, mid 1980s

Where object was made: Japan

Material/technique: stoneware; glaze

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 21.6 x 22.2 x 10.5 cm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 8 1/2 x 8 3/4 x 4 1/8 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Friends of the Art Museum

Accession number: 1989.0020

On display: Lee Study Center

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Form & Flux: Contemporary East Asian Ceramics and Surface Stories

While known for ceramic sculpture, Morino Hiroaki also creates refined functional works. This square vessel features a bold red abstract design, balancing expressive surface with subtle form and color—hallmarks of his distinctive artistic language. Morino gained international recognition with a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1963 during a teaching residency at the University of Chicago. A graduate of Kyoto City Art University, he studied under Living National Treasure Tomimoto Kenkichi.

Exhibition Label:
"Contemporary Ceramics East and West," Feb-2002, Susan Earle, Mary M. Dusenbury
The Kyoto potter Morino Hiroaki is best known in the West for his one-man show at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1963, held while he was teaching at the University of Chicago in 1962-63. He studied with the Living National Treasure Tomimoto Kenkichi and several other distinguished potters at Kyoto Bijutsu Daigaku (Kyoto City Art University), completing the graduate course in 1960. Morino is well known on the international scene for his ceramic sculpture, but he also makes functional pieces, such as this, which are distinguished by the same balance of form, abstract decoration, and subtle sense of color that mark his sculpture.