Meet Niho Kozuru Studio
Niho Kozuru’s whimsical sculptures of cast rubber and glass are an homage to her Japanese family’s ceramist ancestry and her upbringing in Topsfield, Massachusetts, a colonial town outside Boston. Inspired by American turned-wood architectural details, such as finials, balusters, and columns, Kozuru reconfigures and recontextualizes them in unexpected contemporary materials. “I am inspired by quintessential New England motifs, ubiquitous but often overlooked, and renewing them with a blast of color,” says Kozuru. Often, her color palette is an homage to her father’s ceramics and vibrant glazes, but it is also firmly rooted in her heritage. “I often use bright primary colors in my work,” she explains. “In Shinto culture, yellow symbolizes nature, red means Shinto itself, and also Ni(ho) in Japanese translates to red.”
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