Episode 9 - Yasue Maetake

I met Yasue Maetake about three months ago when gallerist Nina Johnson of Miami exhibited Yasue stunning and very unique tabletop sculptures. I walked into the exhibit and immediately thought I must own one of these amazing objects because they represented findings from the earth. I did buy one and I love looking at this piece called—-Avian— it’s made up of hand-blown glass, stained found tree branches, casters aluminum seashells, animal bones, fossils, and epoxy resin.

Yasue is a Tokyo-born artist living and working in New York. Her work has been exhibited extensively in the U.S. and abroad including at Puerto Rico, The Netherlands, Taiwan, and the United States.

Yasue’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, Art in America, FlashArt, and others. She was recently named as one of “20 international women advancing the field of sculpture” by Artsy. Yasue’s work has been featured in Sculpture Magazine. She was also a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Sculpture and an artist residency in the studio of El Anatsui in Ghana with a research grant from the Agency for Japanese Cultural Affairs. Yasue earned her MFA from Columbia University in New York.