Artist Bio

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Born and raised in Honolulu HI, Esther is a studio artist and sometime workshop teacher now living in Kailua, Oahu.  Represented in galleries in Davis CA, Honolulu and Holualoa HI, Chicago IL and Switzerland and has taught workshops at Penland, Anderson Ranch, Santa Fe Clay, Emily Carr Institute, and The Clay Studio in Missoula, among others.

 

Artist Statement

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My work brings together a nerdy life-long love of clay, an engineer dad, a mother with good stories, several smartypants siblings, and a childhood growing up third generation Japanese American in post-statehood suburban Honolulu.  The figurative sculptures—mostly nudes, mostly female—are constructed round and hollow following long-held pottery methods with a cheery disregard for fashion or hairdo.  I want them durable and well-made with an inner life and individuality.