Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within

Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within is the first nationally touring retrospective of Toshiko Takaezu's work in twenty years. The critically-acclaimed exhibition makes its final stop in Honolulu, where Takaezu began her art education and career. Of Okinawan heritage and born in Hawai'i, Toshiko Takaezu was a groundbreaking twentieth-century abstract artist most celebrated for her prolific output of expressively glazed "closed form" ceramic sculptures that ranged in scale from palm-sized works to immersive sculptural environments. The presentation at the Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) features Takaezu's work in ceramics, painting, textile, and bronze, including more than a dozen pieces from the HoMA collection. The exhibition also includes videos by Native Hawaiian composer and co-curator Leilehua Lanzilotti that demonstrate the important, and often hidden, role that sound played in Takaezu's work.