Detail: OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, July 25, 5-7PM
ARTIST TALK: Saturday, July 26, 2PM

TAI Modern proudly announces the first solo U.S. show of Japanese lacquer artist Sasai Fumie, opening on Friday, July 25. Sasai is currently a professor at Kyoto City University of Arts, where she received her undergraduate and graduate degrees. While the history of Japanese and pan-Asian lacquerware is millenia old (the oldest traces of lacquer being found on Neolithic earthenware pottery), Sasai has focused on refining her technique and design sensibility to imbue her works with a sense of softness and friendliness. The soft-polished sheen, defined corners and folds, approachable shapes, and bright colors of the urushi lacquer all work together to populate the artist’s world.