“Color / No Color” Exhibition
Onishi Gallery
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Onishi Gallery presents five contemporary Asian artists who work with the theme of “Color / No Color.” The uniquely Asian sense of color – seen in everything from fashion, food and literature to interior decoration – is rooted in an appreciation of the four seasons. Color represents feelings, mood, and atmosphere; just as Asian people allow each season’s colors to permeate their everyday life, the artists in “Color / No Color” explore the subtle nuances of color as a means of communication with their viewers.
Ai Campbell explores the intricacy of complex emotional reactions that often result from simple human interactions. She uses space to create haunting forms in black and white drawings and paintings.
Akira Ikezoe uses delicate but vivid line drawings to create symbolic forms and patterns that explore space while conveying an unforgettable, gentle aesthetic and harmony. In this exhibit, he works with subtle color in paintings and prints.
Sungmi Lee’s drawings and paintings convey primal forms that seem to vibrate in space, while her textured sculptures, including her tree sculpture-installation piece, shown at New York’s PS1 in 2007, recreate the natural world.
Natsu uses black and white (rather than colorful) Western beads to examine her sense of color and its relation to Japanese culture. In her sculpture "Music Notation,” she strings, weaves, and knots a pattern of black and white beads. Her repetitive, primitive process creates a coherent composition that symbolizes the rhythms of the universe.
Ayako Wakahara merges calligraphy and painting in vibrant compositions. Working at the border of visual and textual languages, she considers color essential to her work, as she helps turn calligraphy into its own expansive art form.
Just as each culture experiences color differently, each artist in “Color / No Color” stretches our sense of color’s permanence and impermanence at any moment.
[Image: Sungmi Lee "Re-Birth" (2005) packing tape, push-pins and monofilament]
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Schedule
from November 06, 2008 to November 29, 2008
Opening Reception on 2008-11-07 from 18:00 to 21:00
Artist(s)
Ai Campbell, Akira Ikezoe, Sungmi Lee, Natsu, Ayako Wakahara