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Inuzuka installs fantastic ceramic world at IU Kokomo Gallery

Sadashi Inuzuka

KOKOMO, Ind.—Shapes from animal and plant life, from nature and from fantasy, overlap in the art installations of Sadashi Inuzuka, featured artist at Indiana University Kokomo Art Gallery March 12–April 22.

The Japanese-born Inuzuka creates hundreds of individual earthenware forms and arranges them in large installations, expressing his “endless wonder at the world in which we live.”

Reviewer Robin Laurence wrote that, while Inuzuka pieces often remind viewers of fantastic sea creatures, the artist shapes the clay into “ridges and spirals, twists and ruffles, . . . puckers and coils” that go beyond a mere imitation of the natural. In an Inuzuka installation, familiar fossil forms are altered and “come together in a clamorous drama of evolution,” Laurence stated.

Over the past two decades, galleries throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and other countries have sought out Inuzuka’s work for solo and group exhibitions. He teaches in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Admission to Installation by Sadashi Inuzuka at the IU Kokomo Art Gallery is free. Gallery hours are Monday–Thursday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.; Wednesdays, until 8 p.m.; Saturdays, noon–4 p.m.; and Sundays, 1–5 p.m. Call (765) 455-9523 or visit www.iuk.edu/gallery for more information.

Funding for exhibitions at the IU Kokomo Art Gallery comes in part from the Kokomo Community Arts Commission, the Tippecanoe Arts Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Indiana Arts Commission/Indiana Endowment for the Arts.

A few of the hundreds of sculptures that will be featured in Installation by Sadashi Inuzuka at the IU Kokomo Art Gallery March 12–April 22.