In a little more than a decade New York-based sculptor Noriko Kuresumi has amassed an impressive list of awards and honors. Last year she won the People’s Award at the 15th Tokyo-New York Friendship Ceramic Competition. In 2013 she took the grand prize at that same competition and received an honorable mention at the Cheongju International Craft Competition in Korea.
Above image: Noriko Kuresumi, Sea of Memory 023, 2011. Photograph by Shin Ono. Courtesy of the artist.
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Noriko Kuresumi, Sea of Memory 046, 2014. Click to see a larger image.
She works mainly with biological forms that draw their inspiration from the sea. Her artist statement about this is elegant in its simplicity, saying as much about her work in three sentences as other artists do in pages.
The sea is the origin of life.
All lives are connected and have been supporting each other.
I create my work by imagining the source of harmony and balance of the ocean.
Noriko Kuresumi, Sea of Memory 012, 2011
Noriko Kuresumi, Sea of Memory 045, 2014. Photograph by Shin Ono.
We like her small-scale sculptures for their poise, they have grace juxtaposed against their thin, fragile forms. Like the life forms they draw their inspiration from, they are balanced between poles of elegance and frailty. Spoon & Tamago, a blog about Japanese art, states:
While mind-numbingly detailed, I find myself in an odd, calming trance while gazing at her work. The fluidity and airiness that Kuresumi is able to achieve through porcelain is astonishing.
Bill Rodgers is the General Editor of CFile.
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Noriko Kuresumi, Sea of Memory 031
Noriko Kuresumi, Sea of Memory 042. Photograph by Shin Ono. Click to see a larger image.
Noriko Kuresumi, Sea of Memory 046. Photograph by Shin Ono.
Works by Noriko Kuresumi. Courtesy of the artist.
my name is connor the great/ biggest i love this it made me so hungry is it edible and avalable for purchace? ilysm thank you
my name is david johns the 6th i also made the imici, mimic i mean. this was my first ever project, and it was diffucilkyt to put the pieces together. my biggest inspiration in life was this peace of artwork, oh my goodness, i feel the nausea approching, the birds will fly ansd so will i, its time to run, run as far as u can please.
ohmygod! i first looked at this proceiline lovley peive of work and i fell in love, it reminds me of that one time i was in new yaerk i took an ice cream and threw it ohn a seagoul. yes.
this is such a good 3D shape. my kids would love this. how much? love it so much. it kindof looks like my one kid named lenard.
EXQUISITE!
very, very good, wonderfull!
I was in a show with her in Mino, Japan. Her work is very voluptuous.
Astonishingly beautiful.