Hiroyuki Okumura "Messengers"

Howard Scott Gallery

poster for Hiroyuki Okumura "Messengers"

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Howard Scott Gallery presents a solo exhibition Messengers by the sculptor, Hiroyuki Okumura, who was born (1963, Kanazawa) and educated in Japan and who has lived and worked in Mexico since 1989. This will be the artist's second one-person exhibition in New York.
Mr Okumura's favored working material is stone, and in recent years most of his works have been made with stone quarried in the State of Puebla. A characteristic working method which he has developed involves his carving a pure form. These forms are then deliberately shattered into many fragments, varying in individual size. Before he patiently rejoins these elements into a single form, Okumura will choose a zone within the original carved form and alter a selected number of adjacent fragments so that they achieve a physicality which gives them both a familial relationship to the surrounding, unchanged fragments and an individuality shaped by the mind, eye, and hand of the artist.
The nine recent works which will compose the forthcoming exhibition gained a particular resonance from their having been made during - and immediately after - Okumura's heroic labors on three commissioned, site-specific works of grand scale for a public space in the city of Veracruz. As painters will often retreat to the making of very personal drawings or small paintings as a release from the intensities of producing a major work, so did the artist in the production of these small, very poetic works.

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from May 08, 2008 to June 07, 2008
Opening Reception: May 8, 6-8pm

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