Natsuko Hattori
Fabric is my medium of choice because people everywhere can relate more easily to this material. My sculptures are created from balls that are individually wrapped with fabric and bounded together to make up an entire whole. The gesture of wrapping each round ball, is an act of transformation that converts pain, sadness and despair into positive energy, such as love or a prayer for comfort. I graduated from the University of Tsukuba in 2010 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts. Since 2010, I had been studying at The Art Students League with Bruce Dorfman until 2012. In NY, my works have been exhibited many galleries. My art studio is Long Island City in NYC.
Ayako Bando
I was born in the country town of Tokushima in Japan, surrounded by nature.
I started to study fine art when I was 25 years old.
I'm trying to express the energy the atmosphere contains.
Recently, nature has played a very big part in my desire to paint.
There's much good energy to absorb into ones body, delivered by the earth
It is the little things in life, we see everyday but take for granted.
The power of nature is endless and I value it's greatness with my body & soul.
For I am a cloud moving across the sky and a river is running through the land.
Kenichi Nakajima
To create a work in the most natural way I need two conditions. First I have to set myself free from the conventions of what many think art should be. I don't want to be categorized.The second condition is that I have to feel raw sensations and emotions.When the two conditions are fulfilled, I create as if flying freely in the sky.The work shows the actual feeling, the impression. That is expression. When the expression conveys successfully the impression, that is art.
Born and raised in Sendai in Japan. I moved to New York City in 2007 where I studying at The Art Students League of New York. I got Xavier and Ethel Edwards Gonzalez Grant and Edward G. Mcdowell Travel Grant at 2009. Exhibit work on 'significant-matters exhibition' and more in New York. Now I am attending National Academy Art school.
Fumio Tanai
Shoji is made form wooden latticework and thin paper. It is a Japanese sliding screen for a traditional room. They are usually installed in the corridor facing a garden so that the natural light comes through the screen; it is a symbolic structure of traditional Japanese architecture. In this exhibition, photographer Fumio Tanai and curator Maki Naramoto will put photographs on one frame each and combine them together to create a photo-sliding screen.
Born in Tokyo, received a degree in Photography from Tokyo Polytechnic University. He had numerous exhibitions at galleries in Paris, New York and Tokyo.
Shu Ohno
Where does my internal desire come from? And where does it go?
I create form which comes from impulse.
Actually, at times, when I'm working, when I'm carving, I feel I am like a bug--creating holes and uncontrollably bringing destruction to a form that was once perfect. But the material continues to breath even after all my wildness. The resilience of the material is so admirable, so it allows me to keep going until I find a form that fits into my missing parts.
Mitsutaka Konagi
Mitsutaka Konagi is a sculptor born and raised in Japan. He has been living and working in New York since 2006. He is interested in nature, old architecture and ancient ruins - something he became familiar with through his experience of working as a stone carver, restoring landmarks and historical buildings in New York. He treasures the original colors and textures of the materials he uses for his pieces, such as clay, wood and stone. His work is very architectural in the sense that he pays extra attention to negative space, as well as shadows and geometric forms that happen in his work. Currently Konagi works from his studio in Brooklyn, New York.
Yuriko Katori
Yuriko Katori is a Japanese artist working in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in NY and her BA in Literature from Waseda University in Tokyo. Her recent exhibitions include Curate NYC 2013(online exhibition by curator Linda Michael), National Arts Club in New York, and The Pyramida Centre for Contemporary Art in Israel.
Her work is a process of rediscovering a disappearing sense of nature in human beings through the images of fragmented bodies and knowledge.
Maho Hikino
Produce video installation, short film, animation and art project.
Focus to the textures, such as color and form are changing from moment to moment.
It’s a move "pictures" in the screen, so that a painter may draw pictures.
In my works, I present new possibilities of what a painting can be.
http://birdproject.hikino-maho.com/
Also I founded and manage a Japanese artist collective working in NYC, “ART BEASTIES”. (http://artbeasties.com/)
Akihiro Ito
Born in 1975, Japan. Live and work in USA. Artworks have been shown in galleries and museums in New York, New Jersey and Japan. In recent years, exhibited a large-scale wooden public sculpture “Forever” in Riverside Park South, Manhattan, and “Tomorrow” in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn in New York.
Humanity and nature are part of the universe, and the human soul is eternal. Trying to show the close relationship between human and nature by using wood and stone as a material in artworks. Providing an opportunity for people to think about humanity’s connection to nature and universe through artworks.
Yoko Naito
Yoko Naito was born in Japan. She has worked as a graphic designer in Tokyo and currently living and working in New York as a photographer. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and Japan. Also, she received someawards such as International Photography Awards, Prix de la photography Paris and London International Creative Competition etc. “ I was born in the countryside, where my grandparents' house is, and grew up in Tokyo. The experience of the gap between rural and urban life has had a significant effect on me. Through my double lifestyles, I explore a relationship of humans or between human and nature in any environment.”
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