June 3 - July 3, 2022

Opening Reception on Friday, June 3, 5 pm - 7 pm

No reservation required. Please join us! 

Sunday, June 19, 11am / Sunday, June 26, 11 am

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at Setsugekka East Village

We are pleased to announce that we will be holding ceramic exhibition by Judy Weddle, and Souheki Mori will hold Japanese tea ceremony and incense ceremony in conjunction with exhibition. The title is "The Many Faces of Each Small Thing: Vessels for the Japanese Tea Ceremony."

Judy Weddle is ceramic artist based in New York City where she works at Greenwich House Pottery in the West Village. She grew up in Western Colorado in a part of the country where a confluence of the Rocky Mountains, fertile Colorado River valley and sunbaked desert landscape have inspired artists for centuries. As the daughter of a horticulturist, Judy had her hands in soil from a young age, but it took many years for that influence to find expression in clay. She had first contact with pottery as an art form as a teenager through her brother who studied with some of the West’s early experimenters in “American Raku.” Judy followed a more practical path, studying political science and philosophy, plus a little art, at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, and receiving an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. She enjoyed a successful career in investment banking and executive search before becoming a potter.

Judy’s work in ceramics grew out of a life-long love of tea and a fascination with the unique history shared between tea and clay. It was to gain a deeper understanding of her own extensive tea ware collection that brought Judy to Greenwich House in 2017. What she thought would be one class quickly turned into a life passion. In 2018, she attended a workshop with Ken Matsuzaki, one of Japan’s most celebrated ceramic artists, and immediately felt the pull of the Japanese aesthetic that has inspired her work ever since. Judy traveled to Japan in 2019 with Jeff Shapiro where she was able to interact with some of the country’s most iconic master potters, among them Suzuki Goro, Shiro Tsujimura, Tomoo Hamada, LTN Jun Isezaki, Koichiro Isezaki, and Ryuichi Kakurezaki. Judy also studies Chanoyu, the Japanese Tea Ceremony, under the guidance of Souheki Mori of the Dai Nihon Chado Gakki (Japan Tea Ceremony Association), in order to imbue her own creations with a personal experience of the culture and special practices that embrace them.

Judy describes herself as a Teapotter, referring to the growing number of ceramic artists outside the traditional tea producing countries dedicated to making artisanal tea wares. The focus of her work is on creating specialized pottery for brewing and enjoying tea, with an emphasis on the unique equipage used in both Chinese and Japanese tea rituals. Judy believes there is a magical affinity between tea and the vessels involved in its preparation and in carrying it to the senses. She strives in her pottery to capture that affinity and thereby elevate the overall tea experience.

During this exhibition, Japanese tea and Incense ceremony hosted by Souheki Mori, assisted by Junya Mori, with Judy's artworks will be held on Sunday, June 19 from 11 am and on Sunday, June 29 from 11 am respectively. Please kindly note that the seats for each ceremony are limited, so please register early. Thank you for your kind understanding.

We are looking forward to seeing you and sharing the pleasant surprise of discovering the many beautiful faces in each piece of Judy’s artwork.

Judy Weddle陶芸個展

イーストビレッジの雪月華で

NY在住のジュディ・ウェドル氏の陶芸個展「それぞれの小さなものにあるたくさんの表情」が6月3日から7月3日まで開催される。

オープニングレセプションは6月3日（金）午後5から7時まで開催される。ジュディの作品を存分に楽しめる茶会が6月19日（日）午前11時、聞香が6月26日（日）午前11時から開催される。森宗碧による茶会と聞香は座席に限りがあり事前予約が必要。