Woven Wonders: Contemporary Japanese Baskets From the Collection of Bradley & Jacqueline Gordon October 14, 2011

For over three decades, Bradley Gordon has been interested in the arts of Japan. Now retired from the bio-tech industry and living in California, Gordon traveled regularly to Japan through the 1980s and 1990s on business. While working in Japan, he developed a great respect and affection for its people, their culture and their varied art forms. In 2003, after relocating to New York for a new job, he visited the Asian International Art Show and was introduced to the work of Japanese bamboo artists through an exhibition by the Tai Gallery. In the ensuing eight years, he has collected over fifty contemporary baskets made by leading Japanese artists whose artistic expression and technical mastery have created both functional and abstract constructions in bamboo.