PRESS RELEASE
Jun Kaneko: Sculpture II
Feb 14 – Apr 5, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Cristin Longo or Beverly Cuyler
For more information call 561.241.3050 or www.bakerspondergallery.com
Jun Kaneko: Sculpture
Opening Reception: February 14th, 2013
BOCA RATON, FL (January 18, 2013) – Baker Sponder Gallery announces the upcoming exhibition of sculpture by Jun Kaneko opening Thursday, February 14th.
Jun Kaneko was born in 1942 in Nagoya, Japan and came to the United States in the 1960’s. Particularly drawn to sculptural ceramics, Kaneko studied at the Chouinard Institute of Art during a pivotal time when ceramics as functional craft was expanding to embrace the highest levels of contemporary artistic expression. After studying with Peter Voulkos, Paul Soldner, and Ken Price in California, Kaneko emerged during the time now identified as the “America Clay Revolution.”
Jun Kaneko’s work is defined by its overwhelming scale and exquisite form, implying a spatial relationship between the object and viewer. Evidence of Kaneko’s early years as a painter exists in the richly glazed surfaces and rhythmic pulse of his marks and patterns. Their sheer size combined with the artists hunger to push the physical limitations of his material, generate an undeniable presence.
For the past two decades Baker Sponder Gallery has been synonymous with contemporary art, and is a respected resource for international collectors, museums, designers and corporations. The gallery offers works by established and mid-career artists, while maintaining an inventory of strong secondary market work. In January 2010, Elaine Baker and her daughter Deborah Sponder opened a second space at the Boca Raton Resort & Club. This new partnership houses a major sculpture program and is dedicated to presenting museum quality sculpture for acquisition.