Gallery Common is pleased to present “In the Making,” a two-person exhibition by Jun Tsunoda and Shun Kadohashi, on view from November 22 to December 21, 2025. This exhibition marks Tsunoda’s second presentation at the gallery following his solo show in November 2024, and Kadohashi’s debut exhibition at the gallery.

Born in Aichi Prefecture, Jun Tsunoda graduated from Tama Art University and later worked as an art director in Tokyo. He is currently based in Yamanashi, where he produces paintings, drawings, and sculptural objects. For this exhibition, he will present new works inspired by his recent explorations of plant forms.

Shun Kadohashi was born in Hyogo Prefecture, and later moved to Tokyo where he worked at an arts publishing house; this was followed by a period abroad in London, during which he first began learning ceramics. He now lives and works along the coast of Chiba, where he continues his ceramic practice. The exhibition will feature his new vessels, objects, and ceramic wall pieces.
The exhibition title is derived from the book Making by the British anthropologist Tim Ingold.* Ingold understands the act of “making” not as a linear process that heads toward finality and completion, but as an ongoing exchange with the world. Working from their respective environments of nature (Tsunoda at the foot of the mountains in Yamanashi, and Kadohashi by the sea in the Bōsō Peninsula), both artists’ practice involve manual, hands-on work that not only generates forms, but also stays in dialogue with nature, bringing forth a renewed world.
While the works on view are materially “finished,” Ingold reminds us in Making that a finished form does not signify the end of making. Rather, it represents a single moment in the life of materials. Completion is not a state of cessation, but a present-tense configuration, a form shaped by the relationship between material and world.
Painting and ceramics may appear fixed in form, yet in reality they remain perpetually in flux, shifting through time, place, light, and their relationship to the viewer.
We invite you to encounter these forms that have emerged from each artist’s close engagement with their environment and materials.


Reference:
*Tim Ingold, Making, Sayusha, 2017, p. 53–59, “Making and growing.”