Gallery review: Jun Kaneko's ceramic shapes as canvases

The intensely brilliant glazes on Jun Kaneko's recent ceramic dango (rounded form) sculptures bring them more into the realm of painting than ever before. Kaneko was certainly headed in that direction in 2008, when he had his first exhibition of dangos on Locks Gallery's roof — and when the Opera Company of Philadelphia staged its production of Fidelio featuring his set designs and costumes — but his palette was often black and white and his imagery vacillated between all-over zigzag and dot patterns and arrangements of monochrome blocks. Those works were emphatically monumental, too, like enormous sentinels, as were the ones shown in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Perelman Building between 2009 and 2010.