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Our new exhibition, “The Exodus”, opens TONIGHT, 12-13-2019 in Portland!
If you are in Portland, OR please come by Nucleus Portland tonight 6-9pm and say hi and check out our new show of kozy’s ceramic sculptures, and paintings by us as well! We are presenting almost 130 new “bunny primitive” sculptures, most of whom have been on a long journey from the traditional wood kilns in the Japanese countryside, to Los Angeles, to Portland to share with all of you! We also made 7 new paintings to accompany the sculptures.
As always, each sculpture is a one-of-a-kind, hand built ceramic sculpture, and each comes with a card with their picture, name, and story, stamped and signed by kozy.
The show runs December 13, 2019 - January 15, 2020 at Nucleus Portland. 1445 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Portland, OR. 97214 ph: (503) 231-2702
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Hand made by kozy, this one-of-a-kind ceramic sculpture was created for her 2018 exhibition “Growing Into Roots”, part of her ongoing series of “bunny primitive” sculptures, she made this piece while doing a residency at the prestigious Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Japan. The sculpture measures 8 x 7.5 x 5 inches and comes with a card with the its photo, name, and story, signed and stamped by kozy.
“Ando-san is a homebody. His good friends can sometimes get him to go out, but doesn’t like loud bars.”
“Keita”
Hand made by kozy, this one-of-a-kind ceramic sculpture was created for her 2018 exhibition “Growing Into Roots”, part of her ongoing series of “bunny primitive” sculptures, she made this piece while doing a residency at the prestigious Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Japan. The sculpture measures
6.5 x 3.25 x 5.25 inches and is also a noise-making rattle when shaken! Sculpture comes with a card with the its photo, name, and story, signed and stamped by kozy.
“Keita is a famous video game designer, but really he wants to build playgrounds.”
“By the Crystal’s Light”
2018
Dan play a bit in the dark with Kozy’s sculptures for new new exhibition, “Growing Into Roots”, before we delivered them to GR2 Gallery. Super fun to imagine the world her bunny primitive sculptures live in - their social structures, their recreation, their rituals, all the oddities, as well as parallels to our own world.
I think we have some similar ideas about the world the characters inhabit, and what they are like, but we don’t discuss it between us too much - the sculptures just exist in our own personal worlds, and we expect each viewer of the exhibition will fill out their own version of the bunny primitive world.
Some of these one-of-a-kind, hand built ceramic sculptures are still available for purchase HERE on Giant Robot’s web store.
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38 of the 140+ new bunny primitive sculptures Kozy made for her solo show, “Growing Into Roots”, at Giant Robot. The exhibition runs September 8-26th, 2018. Remaining sculptures are available at Giant Robot’s Web Store now!
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Purchase available artworks HERE!
“Growing Into Roots” is the new exhibition by Kozy Kitchens at Giant Robot 2 - GR2 Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. The exhibition will be on viewSeptember 8th, 2018 through September 26th, 2018.
Giant Robot GR2 Gallery
2062 Sawtelle Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 20025
www.giantrobot.com
Kozy is presenting an installation of over 160 new ceramic sculptures, including 140+ new figures in her ongoing “Bunny Primitive” series, as well as glowing crystal sculptures, wind chimes, and sound objects.
From Kozy:
“This summer I had the honor of attending the prestigious residency program at the Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Park in Shiga prefecture, Japan, to further my exploration of ceramics, a medium that I have developed a passion for in the last 6 years. It was a humbling experience to learn traditional techniques and to use the traditional wood fueled kilns, as well as discover that all the local clays and different techniques of glazing and firing employed in my home country for centuries. During my 3 month stay at the residency I chose to make learning about these techniques, about my own cultural heritage, my priority. I continued working with the same ” bunny primitive" forms I had been creating in the US, and found so much joy in discovering these parts of my culture I wasn’t aware of before.
It’s struck me that I had left Japan in 1997 as a teenager, wanting to escape what I thought of as a rigid, staid culture, for the relative excitement and artistic freedom of the USA. I have made a good life here in Los Angeles over the last two decades, and have been fortunate to make a living from my artistic practice, but I have missed my family and thought of this residency as a good excuse to see more of them while I continued to work. What I found, though, was a new appreciation for my own heritage. Maybe it is just a function of having been away so long, or the newly chaotic cultural climate in the US these last few years, or maybe I have just matured enough to appreciate Japanese culture (a culture that, unlike American culture, really reveres, and in many ways is geared toward, older people). Probably it is a combination of all these things, but whatever the case, attending the residency, and creating the works I am presenting in this exhibition, altered my direction in life, and gave me a new understanding of my identity. “
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“Growing Into Roots” is the new exhibition by Kozy Kitchens opening Saturday, September 8th, 2018 at Giant Robot 2 - GR2 Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. The exhibition will be on view through September 26th, 2018.
Remaining sculptures are now available on Giant Robot’s web store! Click Here to view them.
Giant Robot GR2 Gallery
2062 Sawtelle Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 20025
www.giantrobot.com
(424) 246-7626
Kozy is presenting an installation of over 160 new ceramic sculptures, including 140+ new figures in her ongoing “Bunny Primitive” series.
From Kozy:
“This summer I had the honor of attending the prestigious residency program at the Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Park in Shiga prefecture, Japan, to further my exploration of ceramics, a medium that I have developed a passion for in the last 6 years. It was a humbling experience to learn traditional techniques and to use the traditional wood fueled kilns, as well as discover that all the local clays and different techniques of glazing and firing employed in my home country for centuries. During my 3 month stay at the residency I chose to make learning about these techniques, about my own cultural heritage, my priority. I continued working with the same ” bunny primitive" forms I had been creating in the US, and found so much joy in discovering these parts of my culture I wasn’t aware of before.
It’s struck me that I had left Japan in 1997 as a teenager, wanting to escape what I thought of as a rigid, staid culture, for the relative excitement and artistic freedom of the USA. I have made a good life here in Los Angeles over the last two decades, and have been fortunate to make a living from my artistic practice, but I have missed my family and thought of this residency as a good excuse to see more of them while I continued to work. What I found, though, was a new appreciation for my own heritage. Maybe it is just a function of having been away so long, or the newly chaotic cultural climate in the US these last few years, or maybe I have just matured enough to appreciate Japanese culture (a culture that, unlike American culture, really reveres, and in many ways is geared toward, older people). Probably it is a combination of all these things, but whatever the case, attending the residency, and creating the works I am presenting in this exhibition, altered my direction in life, and gave me a new understanding of my identity. “
A few of the many new “bunny primitive” sculptures kozy made for our show “The Exodus” that opened in December 2019 at Nucleus Portland. Some of these pieces are still available through their website, so check it out!
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