June Sekiguchi profile from Northwest Designer Craftartists
Thank you to the Northwest Designer Craftartists organization for this wonderful profile and interview with June Sekiguchi.
Thank you to the Northwest Designer Craftartists organization for this wonderful profile and interview with June Sekiguchi.
ArtX Contemporary presents The Geometry of Resilience, a new solo exhibition by sculptor June Sekiguchi, inspired by the radiating, symmetrical forms of oceanic life and microorganisms. Sekiguchi’s mandala-like structures are created from humble materials, weaving together organic forms and meditative processes to explore the interplay between vulnerability and strength in an ever-changing world. Throughout the…
View Sekiguchi’s solo exhibition “The Geometry of Resilience” here.
June Sekiguchi shares words of encouragement and hope for getting through this historic moment on the Community Voices Series, a public art project hosted by the Future Ancient in collaboration with the Seattle Art Museum and Seattle Office of Arts. This series showcases local API artists’ and cultural workers’ perspectives on this time of unprecedented…
Please join us on Saturday, October 26th from 1-3pm for an artist talk and walk-through of The Pulse of Water with June Sekiguchi
ArtXchange Gallery presents The Pulse of Water, a new solo exhibition by June Sekiguchi opening First Thursday, October 3, 5-8pm.
Stacked Tetradecagons (14 sided polyhedrons) were made in honor of Sekiguchi’s father, a mathematician who favored geometry as the most elegant form of math. In the original installation after her father passed, she made 12 sets of the tetradecagons for a total of 168 panels, an auspicious number in Chinese numerology. Each set had a…
Winged Mandala (2012) 46” x 46” Enamel on scroll cut wood $1200 It is a long tradition in Japan to identify clans by their family crests (mon in Japanese). Sekiguchi’s family crest is crossed hawk feathers. She has taken the feather, expanded the representation to the whole wing, and manipulated their configuration into a radiating…
The sculpture itself is emblematic of Sekiguchi’s work and career, a generative struggle between the borders and connections of humanity, spirit, and science.
June Sekiguchi, Exploring Interconnectivity Friday, January 22, 2016 | by Amanda Manitach and Miguel Edwards June Sekiguchi makes modular, interlocking sculptures that transform with each consecutive installation. Inspired by Islamic, Laotian and Moroccan design, most of her heavily-patterned pieces are made of quarter-inch MDF (medium-density fiberboard) that Sekiguchi hand-carves with a scroll saw. It’s her…
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