Medium: Glazed stoneware
Artist: Seiko Kato Behr (Japanese-American, 1941–2010)
Form: Ikebana Vessel with hand-coiled handle
Dimensions: 7.25" H x 7" W x 6.25" D
Signature: Stamped on the bottom with the artist's cypher
Condition: Good; wear consistent with age
Postmodern greenish-blue glazed stoneware ikebana vessel with a hand-coiled handle. Stamped on the bottom with the artist's cypher. In good condition with wear consistent with age.
Seiko Kato Behr (1941–2010) was a Japanese-born American potter, sculptor, and installation artist based in Chestertown, Maryland. Born in Osaka, she was raised and educated in Tokyo before completing her pottery studies under Master Potter Teruo Hara and becoming a private student of Master Shino artist Kozo Kato in Tajimi, Japan.
For over thirty years, Behr focused on creating container forms for ikebana arrangements that also functioned as independent sculptural works. She was a second-degree master of the Ohara-ryū school of ikebana, and her ceramics merge Japanese ceramic traditions with modernist abstraction.
Behr received an award at the Second Sogetsu International Container Competition in Tokyo in 1993 and shared the Judges' Choice Award in the final competition in 1996. In 2007, she presented a solo exhibition of sculptures, installations, and containers at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland.
Exhibition History:
Behr's work was featured in major exhibitions in Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan, as well as at the Smithsonian Institution, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Flower Show, and the National Arboretum.
Museum Holdings:
Institutional holdings for Seiko Kato Behr are not widely documented in available records. Her work is represented through exhibition history at the Smithsonian Institution and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and through private collections. A solo exhibition of her work was held at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland, in 2007.
Medium: Glazed stoneware
Artist: Seiko Kato Behr (Japanese-American, 1941–2010)
Form: Ikebana Vessel with hand-coiled handle
Dimensions: 7.25" H x 7" W x 6.25" D
Signature: Stamped on the bottom with the artist's cypher
Condition: Good; wear consistent with age
Postmodern greenish-blue glazed stoneware ikebana vessel with a hand-coiled handle. Stamped on the bottom with the artist's cypher. In good condition with wear consistent with age.
Seiko Kato Behr (1941–2010) was a Japanese-born American potter, sculptor, and installation artist based in Chestertown, Maryland. Born in Osaka, she was raised and educated in Tokyo before completing her pottery studies under Master Potter Teruo Hara and becoming a private student of Master Shino artist Kozo Kato in Tajimi, Japan.
For over thirty years, Behr focused on creating container forms for ikebana arrangements that also functioned as independent sculptural works. She was a second-degree master of the Ohara-ryū school of ikebana, and her ceramics merge Japanese ceramic traditions with modernist abstraction.
Behr received an award at the Second Sogetsu International Container Competition in Tokyo in 1993 and shared the Judges' Choice Award in the final competition in 1996. In 2007, she presented a solo exhibition of sculptures, installations, and containers at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland.
Exhibition History:
Behr's work was featured in major exhibitions in Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan, as well as at the Smithsonian Institution, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Flower Show, and the National Arboretum.
Museum Holdings:
Institutional holdings for Seiko Kato Behr are not widely documented in available records. Her work is represented through exhibition history at the Smithsonian Institution and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and through private collections. A solo exhibition of her work was held at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland, in 2007.
