Former Head of Ceramics, Jun Kaneko's, Work on View at Amarillo Museum of Art
Jun Kaneko, Untitled, Heads, 2016, hand-glazed cast raku ceramics, stainless steel. Photo: Colin Conces, Courtesy Amarillo Museum Of Art.
Former Head of Ceramics (1979-86), Jun Kaneko’s ceramic and other works are currently on view at the Amarillo Museum of Art. Included in the exhibition, Jun Kaneko, are works Kaneko created in collaboration with his Academy student Annabeth Rosen (MFA Ceramics 1981) and artist/songwriter Terry Allen.
Kaneko was first introduced to sculptural ceramics at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, CA and he would go on to teach at Scripps College, Rhode Island School of Design, and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Kaneko is known for his large-scale, monumental dango (Japanese for “rounded form”) ceramic sculptures. The earliest of these were created while he was the head of Ceramics at the Academy.
Kaneko has realized more than seventy public art commissions from 1985 to the present. His artwork appears in numerous international and national solo and group exhibitions annually and is included in more than eighty museum collections, including that of Cranbrook Art Museum.
Jun Kaneko is in view at the Amarillo Museum of Art through September 3, 2023.
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