Locks Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of Jun Kaneko, the  artist’s seventh solo exhibition with the gallery. On view from June 3  to July 31, the exhibition will feature significant freestanding ceramic  forms and wall-hung pieces with abstract designs and markings.

Originally  trained as a painter in Japan and captured by the California Clay  Movement of the early 1960s, Kaneko has for decades explored the  interpenetration of form and space in his sculptures. Known for his  large-scale, monumental dangos (Japanese for “rounded form” or  “dumpling”), Kaneko immerses himself in the parallel processes of  painting and of applying slips and glazes to his ceramics. Whether  motifs of calligraphic lines, cross hatching, dots, drips, spirals, or  other gestural markings, Kaneko says that he hears what the form has to  say and begins to make the marks.