NIYOKO IKUTA

Ikuta started making glass sculptures in the early 1980s. Fascinated by the capacity of light to reflect and refract while passing through broken sections of plate glass, the Kyoto-based artist composes ethereal, geometric sequences into layered sculptures. She laminates sheets of glass using adhesive and exposes the cross sections to create a dynamic energy and an illusion of motion. Her works often suggest waves or flight.

Niyoko lkuta

It's a beauty that you have to hold your breath to appreciate, infusing a space with dynamic energy to bring it to life.

Themes come from: the tenderness and harshness experienced in contact with nature, fear and feelings of infinite expansion, imagery in music, racial conflict, the temperamental heart, and prayer casting.
Her work has been collected by numerous Japanese museums and exhibited in the United States by the Corning Museum of Glass, among other institutions.

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It's haunting, like entering a no-man's land, and helps you cleanse the world of noise.

Japanese artist Niyoko lkuta has been exploring the properties of glass to create ethereal geometric sequences that manifest as layered sculptures.

Niyoko describes her work: "I am fascinated by the complexity of light as it reflects, refracts and passes through the broken cross-section of flat glass. in 1980, I began to make artworks by laminating sheets of glass and exposing the cross-section using adhesive.