September 11 - October 24, 2015
“Pictures don’t capture the depth and subtly of Kanako Togawa’s new work in glass.
Using inks and oils the artist renders delicate tableaus on sheets of cast glass imbuing the pieces with a preternatural gravity. Her softly executed birds and moths float in murky atmospheres and her dark lush landscapes merge into inky ambience. In two of the new works Togawa continues to apply a visual strategy she has tried before; juxtaposing a scene applied to the front and back surface of her flat glass with a 3 dimensional depiction in cast glass of glistening wet leaves and fruits…
Kanako Togawa’s work is in the permanent collection of the Corning Museum of Glass and the Rochester Institute of Technology. She has won several awards in Japan and the United States for her work and has appeared in the Corning Museum’s New Glass Review 32, 33 and 34. This is the artist’s second exhibition in the United States and at Ken Saunders Gallery.”
Ken Saunders, 2015
(excerpt from exhibition catalogue)
Artist | Kanako Togawa
