Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture –– Minneapolis Institute of Art https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/hard-bodies-contemporary-japanese-lacquer-sculpture
October 7, 2017 – June 24, 2018 | Target Wing | Free Exhibition It’s an art nearly as old as civilization itself. Since the Neolithic era, artisans in East Asia have coated bowls, cups, boxes, baskets, and other utilitarian objects with a natural polymer distilled from the sap of the rhus verniciflua, known as the lacquer tree
on foam polystyrene 37 3/4 × 43 5/16 × 74 13/16 in. (95.89 × 110.01 × 190.02 cm) Gift
