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Mineo Mizuno, Screw, 1974
stoneware
19 x 6 in

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Mineo Mizuno was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, in 1944. From 1966 to 1968 he studied ceramics at the Chouinart Art Institute in Los Angeles, where he was exposed to the almost machine-perfect, "fetish finish" style of the West Coast potters under Ralph Bacerra. He worked as a ceramics designer from Interpace China Corporation in Glendale, California, for ten years, establishing his own studio in 1978. In 1981 he received a National Endowment for the Arts Award. His work has been widely shown at venues including the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, the American Craft Museum in New York, and the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg. Profoundly influenced by Josef Albers, Mizuno explores color and texture through various glazes and gestural brushstrokes in his exquisitely crafted pieces, which he sometimes combines into series for added compositional effect.