FINE ARTS
Works from earth and fire
Carlos Runcie Tanaka’s fine art practice centered on ceramics as a living material language, expanding into sculptural objects, installations, and spatial compositions shaped by fire, fragmentation, accumulation, and ritual transformation. Across several decades, he developed a distinctive material vocabulary where clay, glaze, ash, found elements, and organic textures became vehicles for memory, migration, erosion, and continuity.
Other media
Works developed across glass, printmaking, drawing, and other media throughout Carlos Runcie Tanaka’s practice, extending his material language beyond ceramics.
Glass
Glass works exploring transparency, light, organic form, and material transformation through sculptural experimentation.
Prints
Prints and graphic works centered on repetition, gesture, symbolic mark-making, and layered visual language.