Ryo toyonaga biography examples

Ryo Toyonaga’s recent survey curated by Midori Yamamura and designed by Yumi Kori at the Vilcek Foundation in New York City (March 12-May 15, 2009) summarized nearly twenty years of work in ceramics and other media.

Toyonaga, I figured, surely must have been inspired by the atomic monsters that waddled through the cities and fields of those old TV shows.

Ryo Toyonaga does seem an outsider, an exile from the exiles, the enigma of the exiles, who has resisted pigeonholing within the overlapping contemporary clay.

Ryo Toyonaga was born in Matsuyama, Japan, in and earned his BA in psychology from the National University of Shinshu.

Toyonaga was born in Matsuyama, Japan in and studied psychology at Shinshu University.

Ryo Toyonaga was born in Matsuyama, Japan, in He moved to New York City in and began creating unique and innovative ceramic works that appeared.

For our purposes, we will concentrate on Toyonaga’s evolution as a ceramic sculptor. This is helpful, especially now, since, like many other ceramic artists recently (Frank Boyden, Peter Voulkos, Jim Leedy, Patti Warashina, Michael Lucero, etc.), Toyonaga is switching almost exclusively to bronze and aluminum, cast at the legendary Tallix Foundry in Beacon, New York, near his studio in Garrison, New York, in the Hudson River Valley.

It is more important than ever to treat his ceramic work to date as a finite system, even a closed book.

What can we gain from such an approach? Building on over 300 handbuilt, carved, and unglazed stoneware sculptures made between 1987 and 2003, Toyonaga’s subsequent art is inesca