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    Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within

    Illustration for Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within

    February 14 – July 26, 2026

    Noguchi Museum

    9-01 33rd Rd, Queens, NY 11106

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    About This Event

    Live event at Noguchi Museum

    About Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within

    At The Noguchi Museum, *Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within* situates the artist’s ceramic practice in a setting shaped by another major figure of postwar sculpture. The exhibition follows Takaezu’s closed-form “moon jars,” vessels that hold sound, weight, and interior space as part of their meaning. Her work sits within the history of American studio ceramics and the city’s long conversation between craft and fine art. One clear takeaway is how she uses containment not as restraint, but as a way to make attention measurable.

    About the Artist

    Toshiko Takaezu

    Toshiko Takaezu was an American artist and educator whose practice moved between ceramics, painting, sculpture, textiles, and bronze. Raised in Hawaii and shaped by Japanese American heritage, she helped shift clay from utility toward abstraction, developing rounded, enclosed forms that function as objects of contemplation rather than vessels.