Kenji Hirata "The Way Out is the Way In"
Joshua Liner Gallery
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Inspired by billboards, Southeast Asian signage, and the pop-cultural legacies of Futurism and Superflat, Kenji Hirata’s unique form of hard-edged abstraction celebrates the dynamic interplay of color and form. These small-to-medium-sized, acrylic-on-canvas works explode with the artist’s vocabulary of spaceship forms, overlapping organic lozenges, and stair-step effects, all activated by Hirata’s signature color-wheel gradations of complimentary hues. Eschewing overt statements, Hirata engages in a pure, personalized form of visual play. In his exuberant experimentation with bright color, form, and the suggestion of action, the artist enacts a childlike fantasy of free movement between states of being and imagination.
[Image: Kenji Hirata "Gesture Without Motion" (2009) Acrylic on canvas 48 x 48 in.]
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Schedule
from October 17, 2009 to November 14, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-10-17 from 18:00 to 21:00