The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles

Kinetic Stillness: Sculptural Ceramics features artists exploring the intersection of material, culture, and nature through ceramic forms.

The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles has launched a new weekly program “Doors to Arts of Japan – Introductory Message by Meher McArthur”. L.A.-based Asian art historian Meher McArthur will introduce videos with concise explanations regarding various forms of Japanese art and culture such as painting, ceramics, dolls, sushi and manga, adding insightful commentary from her own professional perspective.

Through the concept of kinetic stillness, this exhibition brings together seven Japanese and Japanese American artists who approach ceramics not as vessels for utility or tradition, but as sculptural sites of flux. Each form bears the imprint of motion and history, embodying what we call kinetic stillness, an energy suspended in silence.