Yoshihiko Takahashi Seeking the Light Saturday, July 29 - Friday, August 11, 2023

Gallery NOW is pleased to present “YoshihikoTakahashi: Seeking Light” from July 29 (Sat) to August 11 (Fri), 2023.
While a student at Tama Art University, YoshihikoTakahashi (b. 1958, Tokyo) was inspired by the “studio glass movement” that was emerging in the U.S. and other countries at the time, and began working from a different perspective than conventional glass art.
His works, created using the air-blown glass technique, make full use of Takahashi’s breath, gravity, and centrifugal force. The shapes created with minimal applied force have a softness and natural form.
In this exhibition, Takahashi will show his new object “Seeking Light” as well as vases, cups, and other vessels.

Biography
1958 Born in Tokyo, Japan
1980 Graduated from Tama Art University
1985 Opened a studio in Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture
2012-2022 Professor at Tama Art University

Selected Exhibitions
1984 Galerie Nordend, Germany (’86)
2001 Five words (Five words exhibition) Gallery NOW
2004 Ruthless Objects – 11 Contemporary Craftsmen, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
2005 YoshihikoTakahashi GLASS WORKS, Gallery NOW
2011 Glass *YoshihikoTakahashi Exhibition, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Crafts Gallery, Tokyo
2011 Glass Works by Yoshihiko Takahashi, Gallery NOW
2013 Contemporary Crafts – Now – Words of Itsutsu – Raku Suitei Art Museum
2020 Looking at Utsuwa – Crafts in Our Daily Lives, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2021 Flower Vessels – Flowers in Daily Life Gallery NOW
2021 Yoshihiko Takahashi playtime, Toyama City Museum of Glass Art

And many more.

Major public collections
Toyama City Museum of Glass Art (Toyama)
Raku Suitei Art Museum (Toyama)
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Hokkaido)
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Tokyo)
Koganezaki Crystal Park (Shizuoka)
Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, U.K.
Powerhouse Museum, Australia
Museum Kunstpalast (Dusseldorf, Germany)
Glasmuseum (Ebeltoft, Denmark)
Museum of Decorative Arts (Losanne, Switzerland)
Glasmuseum Rheinbach (Rheinbach, Germany)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
National Museums of Scotland, England
Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA