Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica
**Intersection with Takashi Horisaki** Tuesday, May 19th | 5PM - 7PM 18th Street Arts Center 1639 18th Street. Santa Monica, CA 90404 **Free + Open to the Public** These gatherings are dedicated to gathering our community around good food, conversation, and art. Please stop by for a bite and chat with our community and spotlight artist [Takashi Horisaki.](https://18thstreet.org/artists/takashi-horisaki/) From Social Practice to Bonsai and Back - Building a Sustainable Art Practice For this Intersection, he and the staff of 18th Street Arts Center will offer a light supper of Japanese miso soup and riceballs, accompanied by a talk and display of a selection of his current #InstaBonsai ceramic works. Together, let’s convene to share our strategies for a flexible, critical, but sustainable art practice. [](https://18thstreet.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ChineseTxtBookHorisaki20260424_102406_72dpi-scaled.jpg" class="wpex-lightbox-group-item" data-caption="Takashi Horisaki, book spread featuring workshop sessions of Social Dress Lower East Side – Material Memories (2014), from Soft Material: Flexibility in Contemporary Art by Ren Jie, 2019)Takashi Horisaki, book spread featuring workshop sessions of Social Dress Lower East Side – Material Memories (2014), from Soft Material: Flexibility in Contemporary Art by Ren Jie, 2019[](https://18thstreet.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/18th_Intersection_Horisaki_05192026_72dpi-scaled.jpg" class="wpex-lightbox-group-item" data-caption="Takashi Horisaki, #InstaBonsai-LRGPineTree, 2022, glazed ceramic, 14 x 9 x 15.5 inches. Photo by Yoko Haraoka © Takashi Horisaki)Takashi Horisaki, #InstaBonsai-LRGPineTree, 2022, glazed ceramic, 14 x 9 x 15.5 inches. Photo by Yoko Haraoka © Takashi Horisaki Artist bio Artist portrait 2021. Photo by Yoko Haraoka. © Takashi Horisaki. Takashi Horisaki is a sculptor and community-based artist whose work draws inspiration from architecture, urban planning, and material culture to examine how the materiality of the built environment intersects with social inequality, community-building, migration, and cultural circulation. As a resident artist at 18th Street Arts Center since September 2024 and a recent transplant to Los Angeles, Horisaki will consider how his practice has shifted over the past 20 years to open up a discussion about what a sustainable art practice can look like as we move through different phases of personal growth, family life, and societal change. Horisaki began his contemporary art career in New York City in 2005, ultimately spending 19 years in NYC before moving to L.A. for his partner’s work. In the meantime, his son was born in Tokyo 8 years ago, during his partner’s graduate study, prompting him to change his artistic practice from a post-studio community-based approach to a seemingly more conventional studio practice. Still, despite the change in approach, throughout his community-based projects and studio-based ceramic series, he has continued to use reproductive processes and multi-media installations to examine how images, ideas, and objects intersect, examining the role our material surroundings play in an arguably de-materializing age. For now, Horisaki’s practice remains largely studio-bound, but he plans to return to a greater mixture of community-based and research-based studio work as his son grows older, provoking him to consider the issue of what constitutes a sustainable art practice from multiple perspectives.