The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles

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. Through bending, pressing, collapsing, and building, their works foreground the artists’ physicality and material processes, capturing the moment where form holds movement and stillness pulses with memory.

Tea Ceremony with Pacific Plastics is a UCLA-based interdisciplinary research initiative that uses chanoyu (tea ceremony) as a lens to explore histories of East-West cultural exchange and contemporary ecological issues in the Pacific Ocean. This summer exhibition will showcase ocean-inspired tea utensils created by the collective in collaboration with various artists, an up-cycled tea room, and a small zen garden made entirely from shopping bags and salvaged ocean plastics.

Sanzen Daisen Sekai (三千大千世界) is a two-chapter solo exhibition by Heng Yi, curated by Ann Shi, exploring Buddhist cosmology through ink painting, calligraphy, and philosophical inquiry. The exhibition moves along the axis of form and emptiness, featuring Chapter I at the Steam Gallery and Chapter II at a poco art.