Midway is pleased to present Shallow River, an exhibition of recent sculptures by Tetsuya Yamada. A publication with a text by Alan Longino will accompany the exhibition and be available to viewers visiting the gallery. Shallow River will remain on view through December 1st with regular hours Wednesday – Saturday, from 11am – 5pm.

A good poem is one in which the form of the verse, and the joining of its two parts, seem light as a shallow river flowing over its sandy bed.

– Matsuo Bashō

Tetsuya Yamada studied ceramics at Tamagawa University in Tokyo and received his MFA from Alfred University (NY). He is a Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Yamada’s work is included in the collections of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Portland Museum of Art, and the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. He has exhibited his work and participated in artist residencies both nationally and internationally. In 2020, Yamada presented Waiting at the Hmongtown Marketplace in St. Paul as part of Midway’s Off-Site series.