The Duane Reed Gallery in St. Louis’ Central West End neighborhood is currently displaying works celebrating elemental balance by Ron Johnson and Kensuke Yamada, with the airiness of the former pleasantly counterbalancing the earthiness of the latter. Art devotees have slightly more than a week left to view the exhibition, which closes on July 17.

Yamada, who serves as an assistant professor of ceramics in the Department of Art + Design at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, briefly reflects on his half of the exhibition.

“This is a new body of work I’ve been working on since last year,” Yamada says. “Things are shaping up, but I’m still playing/experimenting with how figurative form, texture and color work together.”

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