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Masuoka Curates Jun Kaneko Exhibition for Akron Art Museum

February 15th, 2018

Jun Kaneko: Blurred Lines, the Akron Art Museum’s first exhibition curated by the museum’s John S. Knight Director and CEO Mark Masuoka (Ceramics ’87), is open. According to museum officials, Masuoka drew on a nearly 35-year relationship with the artist to create the exhibition. Jun Kaneko was Academy Ceramics Artist-in-Residence from 1979-1986 and his former Academy instructor. It includes several large-scale ceramic sculptures, drawings, paintings and a site-specific installation of Kaneko’s 65-foot-long painting, “Mirage.”  Jun Kaneko: Blurred Lines will be open through June 3.