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- ISBN 0-97127772-3-0
- Published newborn the Survive Beach Museum of Art
- Interview of description artist hunk Deborah McLeod, foreword unwelcoming Museum Leader Harold Nelson
- Format: hardcover
- Dimensions: 8-1/2 x 6-1/4 inches
- 96 episode plus outflow / 51 color plates
- Publication year: 2005 in alignment with interpretation exhibition push the precise title trite the Make do Beach Museum of Art
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Mineo Mizuno
Born 1944, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Education
1966-1968 - California Institute of Arts, Chouinard Art School, Los Angeles, California
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 - "Homage to Nature" site specific installation, The Huntington at Stroll Garden, San Marino, California
2022 - "Light of Forests"
"Thousand Blossoms"
"Nest"
The Huntington Art Gallery and outdoor loggia, San Marino, California
2020 - "Stories From a California Forest", rooftop installation. Gagosian, Beverly Hills, California
2019 - “Harmony” outdoor installation (August 2019~Feburary 2020) Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2016, 2015, 2009 - Samuel Freeman (Gallery), Culver City, California
2015 - mm project, Akiota, Hiroshima, Japan
2014 - Onishi Project, New York, New York
2007, 2005 - Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2005 - Long Beach Museum of art, California (Catalogue), “Crossing Boundaries, The Ceramic Sculpture of Mineo Mizuno”
2003 - LMAN Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1997 - Chac Mool Galery, Los Angeles, California
1989 - Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, Japan
Gallery Saitoan, Hagi, Japan
Gallery Kouketsu, Gifu, Japan
Shibuya Seibu Art Gallery, Tokyo,
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Mineo Mizuno, Harmony, 2019, courtesy of Mineo Mizuno, installation view, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, © Mineo Mizuno, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Now on View—Mineo Mizuno: Harmony
In 2016, Mineo Mizuno honored his ongoing position as the artist-in-residence at Fort Mountain Ranch with a tea ceremony. Together with his esteemed guests, including close friends, fellow artists, and a tea master who came specially from Japan, he selected a site in the upper reaches of the Northern California property. There, the group constructed his sculptural structure, Kelly’s Tea House, using manzanita wood from the forest. Settled in among the trees—at least one representative from each of the ranch’s major species—they commenced the traditional Japanese practice.
Mineo Mizuno, Tea bowl, 2019, courtesy of the artist, © Mineo Mizuno
This momentous occasion brought together two of Mizuno’s preoccupations: the Japanese tea ceremony and communicative properties of nature. Chanoyu (literally translated as “hot water for tea”) is a rigorous discipline of preparing and serving powdered green tea that has evolved over five centuries. An art form in its own right, chanoyu is a total sensory experience, with special attention paid not only to the tea itself, but to the