Tenri Cultural Institute - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Tenri Cultural Institute. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“Ultimate Beauty” Exhibition
Curated by Motoichi Adachi and Kyoko Sato New York: Tenri Cultural Institute, proudly presents Ultimate Beauty. The exhibition is co-curated by Motoichi Adachi and Kyoko Sato. Motoichi Adachi,...More »
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Maroko “SMILE is LOVE, WA(和) is LOVE’
Tenri Cultural Gallery presents the first solo New York exhibition of picture book author and illustrator Maroko amplifying the artist’s message of peace to the world through her art. “SMILE is LOVE,...More »
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“Home Away From Home XVIII: Artwork + one” Exhibition
Featured Artist: Miki Nagano Solo Exhibition The Tama Art University Alumni Association’s NY Club has been holding its annual exhibition entitled “Home Away From Home” since 2004. This is our 18th exhibition. ...More »
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“Home Away From Home XVII : Art and Haiku” Exhibition
Tama Art University Alumni Association’s NY Club has been holding annual exhibitions since 2004. The theme this year for our Home Away From Home XVII Exhibition (HAFH XVII) is Art and Haiku. Each of the...More »
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“Society of Japanese and American Creators SJAC 2021” Fourth Annual Exhibition
Society of Japanese and American Creators (SJAC) is the community of New York based Japanese and non-Japanese fine artists, who stimulate creativity each other with their ethnic identities and aesthetic...More »
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“Play Your Part” Exhibition
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“Wagokoro The Art Of Modern Japanese” Exhibition
From Tokyo, Japan, MEDEL GALLERY SHU presents an exhibition featuring traditional Japanese craftsmanship recreated into modern art. Many exhibitions that feature cultural art of Japan usually only features...More »
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“Home Away From Home XV” Exhibition
“Home Away From Home XV” (HAFH XV), The Alumni Association of Tama Art University New York Club Exhibition The New York Club was established in 2003. We currently have a membership of over one hundred...More »
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Shizuko Sawada Exhibition
Tenri Cultural Institute presents a new exhibition by Shizuko Sawada. Sawada is one of the most unique tapestry artists based in Japan. Prior to making tapestries, she learned a method called plant...More »
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Aleksandar Ljahnicky “Fuji”
Tenri Cultural Institute presents the solo exhibition of the architect/artist Aleksandar Ljahnicky. 111 works have been selected for this exhibition about Mount Fuji. These exquisite paintings speak...More »
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“Five Japanese Painters” Exhibition
Showcasing the collaboration of oil paintings created by artists and selected music from the Tokyo University of the Arts. Bringing to light these currently active artists in and around New York City,...More »
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“Home Away From Home XIV” Exhibition
The Story of Kudzu from Tradition to Sustainability Kudzu Cloth Innovation Project at Tama Art University TAMA Art University Alumni Association’s NY Club was established in 2003. We currently have...More »
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Reiko Yashiro and Nobuko Hiroi Exhibition
Tenri Cultural Institute presents a joint exhibition by Reiko Yashiro and Nobuko Hiroi. Fiber artist, Rieko Yashiro, is inspired by the art and design of television programs and theater stages. In...More »
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Vivian Tsao “Rhythm of Light: From Jeddah to New York”
Tenri Cultural Institute presents the solo exhibition of paintings by Vivian Tsao entitled Rhythm of Light: From Jeddah to New York. In her works in oil and in pastel included in the retrospective,...More »
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“Puwari Ikebana And Other Works Of Art Kado Soufookai” Exhibition
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Hiroyuki Matsui “Bizen Ceramic Ware - Red, White, And Black”
Tenri Cultural Institute presents a new exhibition by Hiroyuki Matsui. The Bizen ceramic ware has its origin in Okayama prefecture Japan, with one thousand years of history. Bizen is famous for its significant...More »
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Ken Arai & Kiyo Masuyama “Our Road: Batik x Ikat = Modern Japanese Textiles”
“Our Road” is the first exhibition by a leading Japanese dyeing artist Ken Arai and textile artist Kiyo Masuyama. This solo exhibit would represent the culmination of the work of the renowned duo, alongside...More »
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“The Memory Of The Shtetle - Jewish Folk Crafts Guild” Exhibition
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“An Uncompromising Power of Expression: A Rhapsody in Diversity” Exhibition
This year we celebrate the 145th birthday anniversary of Sergey Rachmaninoff. “An Uncompromising Power of Expression: A Rhapsody in Diversity” is a true celebration of Art and Music with participants...More »
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Kunio Sato “Kenji Miyazawa World”
Although Kunio Sato has had numerous exhibitions in Japan since the 1980s, this will be the first exhibition for the artist abroad. Renowned for his woodblock prints of Kenji Miyazawa’s stories and poems,...More »
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Natsuko Matsumura “Reflection - Things to feel from the Distance”
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Katya Leonovich “Fix & Fax And Football”
Frank Sinatra was a fancy guy and his team called themselves “The Rat Pack.” It was the 50’s when Pop Art just appeared in the art world. For Fix & Fax, I can recall the reincarnation of those fancy...More »
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Kuzma Vostrikov “Just To Land In Tokyo”
Tenri Cultural Institute presents an exhibition by Kuzma Vostrikov, in collaboration with Ajuan Song – Just to Land in Tokyo. The photographs exhibited are illustrations to a novel of the same name,...More »
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Toshihiro Sakuma “Healing”
Tenri Cultural Institute presents the solo exhibition of Toshihiro Sakuma. “Healing” is a series of works that began in 1993 with an installation depicting Sakuma’s family tree. He emphasized life, warmth,...More »
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Kiichiro Adachi “Pseudoastronomy”
Words from the artist: My works are devices for controlling or simulating nature. This year’s solo exhibition is focused on simulation. Specifically, reproducing the universe / galaxy using reflections...More »
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“Home Away From Home XIII” Exhibition
“Home Away From Home XIII” (HAFH XIII) is The Alumni Association of Tama Art University NY Club’s annual exhibition The Tama Art University Alumni Association’s NY Club was established in 2003. We...More »
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“Annual Exhibition 2017 Japanese Artists Association Of New York”
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Lucy Rowan Mann “A Retrospective”
Tenri Cultural Institute of New York presents the paintings by Lucy Rowan Mann. The collection, a retrospective of her work from 1953 to the present, represents an outlet of work that has changed through...More »
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Jong Myung Hwang “Vanitas”
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th Street New York City presents Vanitas: Jong Myung Hwang. The exhibition title Vanitas, refers to a category of artworks associated with still life painting of...More »
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Grethe Wittrock “Nordic Currents”
On April 27th Danish artist Grethe Wittrock opens her Nordic Currents exhibition at Tenri Cultural Institute in New York. She will show a series of sculptural installations, consisting of bird-like constructions...More »
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Ikuko Roth “Maine, Europe, New York”
The artist focuses on landscapes of coastal Maine, Europe, and the beautiful cityscapes of New York City. Roth has traveled through the years to various locations and gained inspiration from the scenery....More »
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Nobuko Tsuruta “12 Years”
The Tenri Cultural Institute presents the solo exhibition of Nobuko Tsuruta. Tsuruta is a Japanese fiber artist that has been weaving Saori for 12 years. Her work ranges from beautifully simple weaves...More »
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Young Gil Kang “LIMBO”
Tenri Cultural Institute presents the solo Exhibition LIMBO: Young Gil Kang. Young Gil Kang’s works are concerned with life’s ambiguity, uncertainness, and transience. He represents contemporary life...More »
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“Abstract/Abstracted” Exhibition
Tenri Cultural Institute presents a Group Exhibition Abstract/Abstracted: Manhee Kim, Kangok Cho, Jeesun Mo, Sungmi Kim, Miyoung Park, Dongmoon Zhang, Youngshin Ryu and Jung S Kim. These eight contemporary...More »
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Salvador Oliveros “Gloria”
“Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas.” —Arshile Gorky The...More »
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“A & M” Exhibition
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Akihiko Izukura and Ines Sun “Impermanence vs. Permanence Healing Art”
16 Minute Silent Retreat This silent retreat is an interactive and participatory movement art. It requieres both artist and participant This silent retreat is an interactive and participatory movement...More »
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“Pure Actions” Exhibition
Tenri Cultural Institute presents a group Exhibition Pure Actions: Suhyun Kim, Simon Doucet, Jisoo Kim, Anese Eun Cho, and Jina Chung, Seungman Park. This group exhibition is comprised of six international...More »
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Chika MacDonald “Mugen”
The Original Yuzen Design Technique was conceived in Japan in 17th century Kyoto by incorporating a stencil dyeing method with a thread gluing technique and the application with vivid colors. The most...More »
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Catharina de Rijke “WATERLAND”
Catharina de Rijke was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands She studied Textile Design in Delft and art history in Paris, 1981 graduated. In 1989 artistic cooperation with architects, origination of the...More »
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Yuka Abe “BE GOD”
Tenri Cultural Institute of New York presents an opportunity to view paintings by Yuka Abe from Japan in the exhibition “BE GOD.” “The Art is the Philosophy. The Philosophy is the Life. The Life is...More »
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Mitsunori Sakamoto Exhibition
An exclusive look at fifteen new art works from photographer Mitsunori Sakamoto printed on Washi, Japanese paper. He will exhibit nature-oriented photographs and traditionally themed visual works. This...More »
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“Home Away From Home Ⅻ” The Alumni Association of Tama Art University NY Club Exhibition
TAMA Art University Alumni Association’s NY Club was established in 2003. We currently have a membership of over one hundred: mostly Tristate area residents plus some residents of Japan. Twenty-Six member...More »
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Hyunjoo Park “The Light of Reason”
Tenri Cultural Institute, New York proudly presents Hyunjoo Park: The Light of Reason. Park’s images have to do with light, so her critics tell us. But they can also discussed in terms of the post-minimalist...More »
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Chigil Jang “As the Wind Flows”
Tenri Cultural Institute, New York presents the exhibition As the Wind Flows: Chigil Jang. Based on its title, this exhibition speaks to the Daoist characteristic of bending to the elements to prevent...More »
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Morgan O’Hara Exhibition
Fou Gallery presents artist Morgan O’Hara’s solo exhibition at Tenri Cultural Institute. Morgan O’Hara’s LIVE TRANSMISSION drawings track, in real time, the vital movement of living beings, transcending...More »
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Yukiko Yokoyama “Dream Weaver”
A common Textile dyeing process is dyeing the fabric once it is already woven but Yokoyama’s technique is different. She starts by dyeing the thread and then uses the dyed threads to make textiles. She...More »
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Miori Inata “Ise and World Sacred Place”
There is an overwhelming amount of information in our society today, causing people to be misconstrued between fact and fiction. Miori Inata was also influenced by this flood of information, studied modern...More »
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Hiroko Otake “Psyche”
Otake is one of the leading young Nihonga artists in Japan. A common theme Otake uses in her works are butterflies and flowers. Butterflies here means “Psyche” from the Greek, life in the sense of “breath”,...More »
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Manhee Kim “Calculated Gestures”
Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC presents Manhee Kim: Calculated Gestures. Manhee Kim’s gestural abstraction is not doctrinaire in the sense of 20th Century work but rather is attuned to his time yet...More »
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H Max Horbund and Aiko Aoyagi “Confluence”
Tenri Cultural Institute presents an exhibition of new prints by H Max Horbund and Aiko Aoyagi Beginning his art career as a traditional realist painter in the sixties, H Max Horbund’s work has evolved...More »
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Richard Lewis Roth “The Moop Paintings 1974 to the Present”
Tenri Cultural Institute of New York presents “The Moop Paintings 1974 to the Present”, a solo exhibition by Richard Lewis Roth. Richard Lewis Roth (b.1927), painter, now in his 89th year, hasn’t produced...More »
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Shigeru Nakanishi “Destruction and Rebirth”
I, as a Japanese architect and painter, have been expressing amazing landscapes in the world from the eyes of an artist. Because I am convinced that it is vital for human life to appeal the importance...More »
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“Holiday Art Show” Exhibition
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“Asian Society of Arts: 2015 ANNUAL EXHIBITION”
- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2015-11-12 - 2015-11-24
This year, the exhibition brings to view a variety of mediums and styles from the members of the Asian Society of Arts: photography, painting, mixed media, sculpture, jewelry, animation, and digital drawing. Asian...More »
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Alex Kukai Shinohara “Scenes From New York City in Drawing”
As a versatile artist, Alex Kukai Shinohara makes paintings, drawings, sculptures, and comics, among other things. He is interested in any medium (material, genre, or color), to express and communicate....More »
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“THE MOMENT: Contemporary Taiwanese American Arts” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2015-10-02 - 2015-10-27
The themed exhibition, THE MOMENT: Contemporary Taiwanese American Arts, is part of the Taiwan and America Art Programs in New York as well as the first exchange activity of Museum of Contemporary Art,...More »
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“Home Away From Home Ⅺ”Exhibition
“Home Away From Home XI ” (HAFH XI) , The the Alumni Association of Tama Art University NY Club Exhibition. TAMA Art University Alumni Association’s NY Club was established in 2003. We currently have...More »
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Misun Yum “Beyond Fashion: 2015 Misun Yum Collection”
Tenri Cultural Institute presents the “Beyond Fashion: 2015 Misun Yum Collection”. Inspired by cultural, historical and artistic themes, Misun Yum unique style combines fashion with art and continuously...More »
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Kunio Izuka “Half A Century in New York”
Kunio Izuka (president of the Japanese Artists Association of New York) exhibits his works themed “Half A Century in New York.” During the restoration period after the war, Izuka landed in Los Angeles...More »
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“Brimming with Nostalgia: The Humanistic Landscape of Taiwanese and Japanese Watercolor Paintings” Exhibition
This exhibition examines the influence that a handful of older, master watercolorists exerted on the development of watercolor painting in Taiwan including old masters Ishikawa Kinichiro, Bai-Shui Ma,...More »
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Peter Miller “Reach for the Sky”
Peter Miller is one of a few contemporary practitioners of Photogravure printing in a semi-abstract style combining the 1830 originally developed photographic printing process with Zen minimalist aesthetics. The...More »
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Inheh Hwang “Hangeul Abstract or GaNaDaRa”
Tenri Cultural Institute, New York City presents the exhibition Inheh Hwang: Hangeul Abstract or GaNaDaRa. As the title suggests, the works of Inheh Hwang combine a contemporary abstract artistic language...More »
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Hisako Kobayashi “Said in Silence”
Hisako Kobayashi wants her paintings to evoke in us what she feels when she listens to music. It may not be the thunderous roar of Beethoven’s Ninth that she has in mind. Perhaps it is the solitary, haunting...More »
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Yukio Shinohara Exhibition
Yukio Shinohara was born in Osaka in 1948. In 1970, he debuted as a cartoonist in the Sankei Shinbun, and in 1971, he graduated from the Department of Art at Kyoto University. He has had editorial cartoons...More »
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Dan Shiro Exhibition
Dan Shiro was born in 1947 in Kyoto, and grew up in Otsu, Shiga Japan. He graduated from the Department of Cultural History, Faculty of Letters, Doshisha University in 1972. He is the winner of numerous...More »
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“Revitalizing the Hanji Tradition” Exhibition
Tenri Cultural Institute presents the Group Exhibition Revitalizing the Hanji Tradition: Hanho, Seoun Gang Kim, YongWoon Hwang, MinSeon Gu, Choul Gyu Lee, EelKwon Kim, YeonSik Min. From the bottom...More »
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Kiyomitsu Saito “we’re Wordroach”
Humans are foolish. Because humans possess words, their desires are limitless. Until humans destroy themselves………….. It is the fate of irony.More »
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Javier Infantes “Flavors”
Javier Infantes understands creativity as a language of experimentation, as a method of investigation and as an acquisition of knowledge. He is interested in traveling into our inner selves, towards discovering...More »
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Song Ying, Wang Zhijie and Ma Yanling “Feminine Icons”
TENRI CULTURAL INSTITUTE presents the exhibition Feminine Icons: Song Ying, Wang Zhijie, Ma Yanling in collaboration with Cristal Kim’s Asian Art Works Gallery, in Beijing. The exhibition features three...More »
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Jina Chung “Daily Semiosis”
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary the word semiosis is “[i]a process by which something functions as a sign to an organism.”[1] While this is true of semiosis, in Saussurian semiology it is the...More »
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Hirokazu Senshou “Respect for the Victims”
Many lives were sacrificed in the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and March 11, 2011. On top of that, fear is rising for those facing the issues involving the nuclear power plants. In Syria and other...More »
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Iku Higuchi “Human Creation”
Her work expresses the human evolution, the field of biological science, in unique imaginations as an artist. By blending the oil painting and the ceramic dough, the mother earth is expressed and the origin...More »
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“Home Away From Home Ⅹ: The Alumni Association of Tama Art University NY Club”
TAMA Art University Alumni Association’s NY Club was established in 2003. In 2013, we celebrated our 10-year anniversary. We currently have a membership of nearly 80: mostly Tristate area residents plus...More »
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“Beyond the Nature” Exhibition
Myriads of emotions exist in one’s deep breath within the nature. Aesthetic sensations dwell in the breaths and there are artists who express them. With different styles, the artists abundantly portray...More »
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Kyujung Kim “Self Reflections”
For this exhibit’s new media interactive site specific installation, Kim utilizes electronic media to externalize his thoughts and expand upon the limitations of creative expression. In this respect it...More »
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Seongjin An “Sakura-Sakura”
Seongjin An’s installation at Tenri comprises photographs of Sakura or Cherry Blossoms. An depicts them in the dusk or moonlight giving them a meditative aura that envelopes visitors in its embrace. The...More »
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Atsushi Ohashi “Waiting for the L Train”
Atsushi Ohashi is always looking for the moment when different types of people or objects gather together and are united through emotion. He observes such moments and finds happiness that leaves an impression...More »
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Hyemin Lee “Pillow Talk”
Hyemin Lee’s pillow installations can be discussed in terms of their historical background in the Chosun Dynasty when seen as symbols of dividing men from women. Used to denote the palace quarters that...More »
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Kiyoko Yamamoto “Dyed White Flowers”
Kiyoko uses the solid aspects of Yuzen, the traditional dying technique for Kimono and the transparency of Batik to display the spiritual thoughts in her works. Her works are inspired by the beauty of...More »
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Iku Higuchi “Kanro”
Iku Higuchi was a sculptor before she became a painter. At the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston she made ceramic and bronze sculptures. Iku gradually lost interest in working in three dimensions...More »
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Lin Yan “Dispelling the Clouds”
Lin’s Dispelling the Clouds project has to do with the devastation wrought upon the environment by the rapid commercialization and industrialization after the opening up of China. There has been evidence...More »
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Javier Infantes “Recollections”
Javier Infantes understands creativity as a language of experimentation, as a method of investigation and as an acquisition of knowledge. He is interested in traveling into our inner selves, towards discovering...More »
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Koichiro Kurita, Anna Strickland, Jonathan Kline “3 VIEWS”
Anna Strickland, Jonathan Kline and Koichiro Kurita” January 6-31, 2014. Although there will be no official opening party there will be a Gallery Talk on Saturday, January 11th from 1:30 to 2:30PM. The...More »
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Seong Gil Heo “The City”
Heo’s ink on Korean paper paintings and mixed media works focus on cities devoid of human presence. Humanity is implied through his use of street signs, traffic lights, telephone booths, and electric wiring....More »
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Koichiro Kurita “Beyond Spheres”
The Beyond Spheres project by Koichiro Kurita is inspired by the literature of Henry David Thoreau and attempts to visually explore Thoreau’s philosophy regarding the relationship between nature and humanity....More »
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Nicholas Moore “My Haven”
Nicholas Moore’s art incorporates fun colors and found objects such as beads, sequins, buttons, and lego pieces, that while engaging us through its humor, nevertheless treats a very serious and universal...More »
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“The Earthly and the Divine” Exhibition
The four artists of this group show epitomize the two polar opposites of the tangible and the divine. Or do they? Ostensibly, their works address issues of consumerism, or spirituality, cosmic order, and...More »
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“Home Away From Home Ⅸ” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Installation
- 2013-09-18 - 2013-09-30
The Alumni Association of Tama Art University NY Club presents “Home Away From Home Ⅸ” (HAFH Ⅸ), The Alumni. TAMA Art University Alumni Association’s NY Club was established in 2003. In 2013, we celebrate...More »
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Japanese Artists Association of New York Exhibition
The Japanese Artists Association of New York (JAANY) presents its 41st Annual Exhibition & Small Works for Japan Relief. JAANY was founded in 1972, Japanese Artists Association, a non-profit organization,...More »
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“Introspection” Exhibition
Tenri Cultural Institute presents the group exhibition Introspection: Jongsook Kang, Jungja Kim, Sungmo Cho, HyongnamAhn, Bongjung Kim, ByungGwun Choy, Gil Seo. If to examine one’s own mental and emotional...More »
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“Horizon Realm Contemporary Art from Taiwan” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-07-11 - 2013-08-08
The Ministry of Culture, Taipei Cultural Center of TECO in New York presents Horizon Realm: Contemporary Art from Taiwan. Funded by the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan, R.O.C. This show is organized by the...More »
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“Hana Akari” Exhibition
Tenri Cultural Institute presents “Hana Akari,” a group exhibition of clay crafts of artists from Japan. Through this exhibition, Michiko Takashima, one of the presenting artists, hopes to “present a visualization...More »
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Ikuko Roth Exhibition
Ikuko Roth has been painting over six decades. She was born in 1928 in Tokyo, Japan. She did mostly figure painting in Japan. One such work is in this show. She came to the U.S. in 1962 with a Max Beckman...More »
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Kathleen Elliot “Imaginary Botanicals”
The Tenri Cultural Institute in association with Katharine T. Carter & Associates presents IMAGINARY BOTANICALS by Kathleen Elliot. IMAGINARY BOTANICALS are exquisitely formed flameworked glass pieces...More »
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Marietta Hoferer and Michael Kukla "Duet"
Duet presents us with two bodies of work that are pristine and immaculate at first glance but visceral and intuitive in essence. The first in which Marietta Hoferer, uses pencil lines with transparent...More »
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Sunhee Kim Jung "Survival"
Through her Camouflage paintings Jung comments on the state of the world; on life and death, on fairness and travesty, on honor and respect, on family, on the individual and his emotions. She honors life...More »
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"KODO & GLASS ART" EXHIBITION - KASANERU
Kodo (Japanese Traditional Incense Ceremony) is a traditional amusement with history dating back to more than 1400 years ago. Kodo expresses its uniqueness by enjoying the scent through both literature...More »
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"Covert Narratives" Exhibition
The artists of Covert Narratives through the use of an abstracted language express their message subtly and without an overt or literal artistic vocabulary. Jinsoo Kim’swhite sculpture painted with black...More »
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Hijo Nam "Intricate Strata"
Hijo Nam’s works are inspired by spiritual motifs and monumental landscapes such as the Jiri Mountain in S. Korea, Grand Canyon, and Bryce Canyon that invoke in her the sounds of the soul. Nam has included...More »
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Hiromitsu Kuroo "Kan no Mado (Window of Midwinter)"
Kuroo folds canvas like paper origami, a method he learned in his native Japan. However, he rejected the traditional rigid and competitive world of his youth opting for the creative, artistic milieu of...More »
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"Media Studies: Mixed Messages" Exhibition
The School of Media Studies warmly welcomes you to the 16th annual Mixed Messages graduate student showcase. Featured student works will be on display at the Tenri Cultural Institute. Short film and...More »
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Vangelis Rinas "Palimpsests of Time"
Through his imagery Rinas revives scenes that like old photographs have become forgotten, faded, scratched, mould stained, and deteriorated. Symbolically, to Rinas the old buildings represent the past,...More »
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Rie Hachiyanagi "Dis(Connect)"
Hachiyanagi’s installation is aptly named for it has to do with the deeply seated human desire for communication. Created by Hachiyanagi with handmade paper, monofilament and roving (slivers of fine fibers)...More »
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"New Directions: Contemporary Art from Japan and Vietnam" Exhibition
Judith Hughes Day and Allison Tolman present NEW DIRECTIONS, an exhibition contrasting the contemporary art of two vibrant and creative Asian countries: Japan and Vietnam. For both, the traditions of the...More »
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"Up and Down: Okmi Han, a Composed Music" Exhibition
Tenri Cultural Institute presents Up and Down: Okmi Han, a Composed Music Exhibition with Double Bassist Jeffery Levine and Violinist Jina Choi. Music escapes from the concert hall and is transferred...More »
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"The Visualized Soul" Exhibition
The artists in this show speak to the idea of the "The Visualized Soul" manifested as art. Inquiry into the purpose and meaning of art led to the examination of its forms as imprints of spirituality. Since...More »
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"Landscape" Exhibition
“LANDSCAPE”features three artists from Taiwan, QUO YING-SHENG,YEH TZU-CHI and CHEN CHIEN-JUNG, respectively in Photography, Oil Paint and Acrylic. Each investigates their individual life experience, and...More »
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"Home Away From Home Ⅷ" Exhibition
TAMA Art University Alumni Association's NY Club, established in 2003, currently has a membership of nearly 80 – mostly Tristate area residents, plus some residents of Japan – of whom 24 member artists...More »
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"Vaulting Limits" Exhibition
Trained in modern European painting and influenced by the Chinese ink tradition, Cao Jigang, Lin Yan, Wei Jia, Xiao Bing and Yuan Zuo explore the borders between abstraction and realism, painting and sculpture,...More »
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Ray DiCecco "Visage and Expression"
Tenri Cultural Institute presents Visage and Expression: Ray DiCecco. Visage and Expression is comprised of a series of portraits that Ray DiCecco refers to as his photo-paintings. Being an electronic...More »
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"Fanning the Fires of History: Ishizumi Fans" Exhibition
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th Street, NYC proudly presents Fanning the Fires of History: Ishizumi Fans featuring Ishizumi art fans commissioned with Nana Shiomi as artist printmaker. Ishizumi...More »
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Tomiko Kato "The Beauty of Japan"
Tenri Cultural Institute presents the exhibition,"The Beauty of Japan,"of recent paintings by Japanese Master Artist, Tomiko Kato. This exhibition will also be a benefit for the Japan Earthquake Relief...More »
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Kiyoshi Otsuka "Commanding Gestures"
Otsuka's horticultural experience comes into play when painting in that he incorporates the mystifying qualities of nature into his work. This is most evident morphologically but also in the titles he...More »
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Inbu Pyo "Estranged Vistas"
TENRI CULTURAL INSTITUTE presents Inbu Pyo: Estranged Vistas. Upon viewing Pyo’s landscapes the viewer can’t help but associate them with Chinese late Sung and Yuan Period wen-ren scholar-recluse...More »
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Sung Ho Choi "Forever Young"
From the beginning of the world man has dreamt of maintaining good health and living longer, a subject reflected in the title of this show Forever Young. As a first generation immigrant artist Sung Ho...More »
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Rueyshiann Shyu "Journey"
This series is about the journey of life. All living beings cycle from point zero, expand into infinity and retrace to the origin. Any point can be the beginning or the end. Journey documents objects through...More »
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Seung Wook Sim "Crumbling Thoughts"
In his solo exhibition Sim will present Sculpture Installation relating to the character in his novel Mindset series, Chapter 6 that will be published in 2012. Through this installation Sim explores three...More »
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"Japanese Artists Association of New York" Exhibition
The Japanese Artists Association of New York, Inc. (JAA) was established in 1973 as a group to support Japanese and Japanese-American artists, with the added intent of providing a connection between the...More »
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"J-COLLABO" Exhibition
J-COLLABO is a new style of social network created for those interested in Japanese culture. It's a place where visual artists, photographers, film directors and others collaborate to create new forms...More »
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Han Ho "Eternal Light"
TENRI CULTURAL INSTITUTE presents Han Ho: Eternal Light, an installation. Han created the Eternal Light installation based upon his childhood experiences and the nature of human reason that appears...More »
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"Wish Come Tsuru" Tanabata Festival
"We are so happy and honored to invite you for the TSURU Project's first Tanabata Festival (Japanese Star Festival) at Tenri Cultural Institute near Union Square on August 6th, Saturday. With your...More »
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“Japanese Artists in New York" Exhibition
Known for her rich and nuanced depictions of urban life, Miho Takai takes her viewers into the heart of New York City. French writer Emile Zola, champion of artwork that was unflinching in its realism...More »
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"JAANY For Japan Relief" Benefit
Japanese Artists Association of New York, Inc. (JAA) was established 36 years ago, in 1973 to be a group to support Japanese and Japanese-American artists, with the added intent of providing a connection...More »
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Cathy Eckdahl and Wei-An Huang “Parallel Journeys”
Eckdahl’s guardian head sculptures deal with dreaming and being transported from dark worlds through which we emerge into daylight. They are inspired by Buddhist holy images but in methodology and style...More »
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Simon Dinnerstein "The Fulbright Triptych”
Inasmuch as Simon Dinnerstein’s work is grounded in the human figure and line, it looks to the Classical genre. But in its attention to detail, his work relates more to the Northern Netherlandish aesthetic...More »
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"To Japan With Love"
A collaboration between Japanese and non-Japanese musicians, Morning MUSUKO was formed in December 2010 by New York City based trombonist Joe Beaty. A funky mix of New York and Japan, Morning MUSUKO is...More »
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"The Neo Garde" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Media Arts
- 2011-03-30 - 2011-04-23
This show comprised of Ulsan University graduate artists represent freshness of vision and universal hope, but its members also explore future challenges. The title pivots off of the term Avant-Garde,...More »
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Jinwon Chang "Releasing the Wounded Soul"
The title of this show is especially suited to the works of Chang because it refers to the artistic equivalent of Zen philosophy that seeks cleansing the spirit by ridding oneself of illusory existence...More »
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Lilia "The Closer You Are..."
Lilia is a conceptual artist and sculptor who lives, and works, in New York City. She produces sculptures and multi-media works including video, projections, photographs, and 3-dimensional pieces in marble,...More »
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Amalia Piccinini "Rewards for Solitude"
Piccinini’s work is silent as the falling snow and subtle as a butterfly at landing. This artist’s delicate aesthetic and touch distinguish her as one of the most articulate yet gentle of artists. She...More »
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Jin Hong Kim "Beyond The Tree"
The artist entitled this series Beyond the Tree because he wanted to convey his emotions while relating to nature while on a photography project. Kim's works don't portray just trees but they do convey...More »
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Hiro Yamagata "Atmosphere"
Yamagata's black and white ink paintings with rice paper on canvas comprise a series that refers to his feelings while he was traveling in Afghanistan. He began his journeys to this land in 2002 and was...More »
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Bendel Hydes "Circumnavigating the Globe"
Bendel Hydes was born in 1952, in a place that the American photojournalist David Douglas Duncan was prompted to call ‘The Islands That Time Forgot.’ In fact, the islands of Hydes’ birth were not even...More »
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Japanese Artist Association's Annual Exhibition
The Japanese Artists Association of New York, Inc. (JAA) was established 36 years ago in 1973 to be a group to support Japanese and Japanese-American artists, with the added intent of providing a connection...More »
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Jena H. Kim and Jongil Ma "Illusive Dimensions"
“Illusive Dimensions” features two artists who use lines to add new dimensions to existing space. Jena H Kim and Jongil Ma create line is animated; living and breathing. The combination of varied curved,...More »
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So-Ji Lee "Emergence"
After many years of experimentation Soji Lee who was a genre painter, changed his style. Instead of using a paint brush as he did previously, he now bounces a string attached to black acrylic crayon over...More »
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"IKEBANA - SOGETSU NEW YORK: 'REFLECTIONS OF SUMMER'" Flower Exhibition
Sogetsu New York Branch is pleased to announce our 2010 Ikebana flower show titled “Reflections of Summer.” Following the current theme of our Iemoto, head of Sogetsu Akane Teshigahara, about 20 members...More »
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Soyoun Jeong "The Hallmark Project"
Jeong's site specific installation engages the viewer through its collection of Hallmark cards whose messages can be seen as ciphers of human expression. Greeting cards are often used to express sympathy,...More »
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Chin Chih Yang "123PolutionSolution 2010"
Chin Chih Yang sees that pollution has become a pervasive part of our lives. Political leaders demonstrated in Copenhagen their refusal to take decisive action for the environment. They performed concern...More »
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Joohyun Kang "Power Games"
Kang's current series Power Games contains subject matter that relates to the dualistic nature of life's cycle: destruction and renewal. She makes a powerful statement about survival within the inherently...More »
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"Waxed in Time: 4 Takes on encaustic" Exhibition
The title refers to the encaustic and layering processes that serve as leitmotif unifying the works of Joan Giordano, Renee Magnanti, Nancy Azara and Kathy Stark. These four masters express their concepts...More »
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"In With The New : 21st Century Abstraction" Exhibition
The work of these three artists represents the durability of abstraction but also a new form of abstraction. Like the abstract vocabulary of the early 20th Century that served almost like an Esperanto...More »
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Jin Soo Kim "Recent Paintings and Sculptures"
Like Robert Rauschenberg’s minimalist aesthetic Kim’s immaculate métier calls our attention to its beautiful clarity but far from being simple it partakes of the complexity of the post-neo-avant-garde...More »
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"Fusion" Exhibition
ARTISTS TALK ON ART presents Fusion an exhibition of the winners of the 2009 yearly curatorial contest. This event came about as a result of a call for artists for a nationwide competition run by ATOA...More »
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"She: Feminine Visions by Taiwanese-American Artists" Exhibition
As the title She suggests, this show features images of women by emerging Taiwanese American artists. The imagery created by male and female Taiwanese-American artists, is both complex and varied containing...More »
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Maelee Lee "Feminine and Strong"
Maelee Lee's recent work comprises photography, video and sculptural installations in a post-minimalist style that embraces simplicity yet has multi-dimensional content. These media link Lee to the Post-minimalists...More »
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Kiichi Tsutaya "Coloring Pictures"
Among the coloring pictures of the world, there is a strikingly beautiful set of coloring pictures and sheets. These are the "Kiichi's nurie" drawn by Kiichi Tsutaya, Japan's premiere coloring picture...More »
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Japanese Artists Association Exhibition
The Japanese Artists Association of New York, Inc. (JAA) was established 36 years ago in 1973 to be a group to support Japanese and Japanese-American artists, with the added intent of providing a connection...More »
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Sang Yong Lee "The Flight"
Sang Yong Lee was born in a small village surrounded by the sublime Kye Ryong Mountain Range in Gong-ju, S. Korea that impacted his monumental style. Growing up with these mountains in sight affected him...More »
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Hee Soo Kim "An Imaginary Land"
Kim was born in small village named ‘The End of the Earth’ in Haenam city in South Jella district, Korea. The End of the Earth Village is located by the ocean and contains many small and attractive hills,...More »
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"Emergence" Exhibition
Many of the artists in this exhibition address what it means, what it feels like, to live in The Gulf. From Oman, Al Moutasim Al Maskery creates work that deals with a very important historic aspect of...More »
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"Flower Arrangement - Ikebana International NY Chapter" Exhibition
Annual Ikebana International Flower Exhibition Displaying works from local members representing all of the area ikebana styles! More »
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Younhee Paik "Wondrous Garden"
Younhee Paik's art is grand, not only in its size which is monumental, but also in its conception. Paik's visionary production spans great lengths crossing tremendous heights to offer us her magical galaxies...More »
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Hyun Kyung Ryu "Lonely City"
Hyun Kyung Ryu was born and grew up in Gyeong-ju, South Korea the famous ancient Shilla Dynasty capital. As a child she played at museums and ancient tombs while imagining that she was a Queen wearing...More »
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Hetty Baiz "This Very Body"
Baiz produces life size collage prints subtly alluding to the human form while maintaining formal interest. Her media is varied and her supports range from canvas or paper to wood panel. The artist sees...More »
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Injong Won "Transformation and Resonance"
The title of this show is especially suited to the works of Won because it refers to the change inherent in nature as macrocosm but also in the human organism as microcosm. Won’s sculptural and two dimensional...More »
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Jenny Chen "The Beauty of Solitude"
Tenri Cultural Institute presents Jenny Chen: The Beauty of Solitude an exhibition of paintings, cast sculptures and video. Chen’s grand expressionistic gestures are poetic discourses into the psyche...More »
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Gahae Park Exhibition
Park's pieces invite meditation, contemplation and prayer in their subdued meticulousness. The monochromous expanses of her grounds are juxtaposed against the subtle color of her lines and the cut out...More »
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Gudjon Bjarnason "abstrACT colOR disBElieve"
For the Tenri show Bjarnason incorporates his interest in space, light, and line that work in tandem to produce sensitive assays into dimensionality. His works on canvas or on paper synthesize drawing,...More »
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JAANY Annual Exhibition
The Japanese Artists Association of New York, Inc. (JAA),were established 30 years ago, in 1972 to be a group to support Japanese and Japanese-American artists, with the added intent of providing a connection...More »
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Amalia Piccinini "Wearing the Silence: A Painting Installation"
For her debut New York solo exhibition, Amalia Piccinini will create a wall-to-floor conceptual installation comprising abstract paintings on canvas, works on paper, and other objects. Piccinini’s work...More »
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Jane Ingram Allen and Marcia Widenor "Still Waters"
Jane Ingram Allen is an American sculptor/installation artist and hand papermaker. She is originally from Alabama and has been living in New York State since 1988. In 2004 she received a Fulbright Scholar...More »
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Jungwook Grace Rim "108 Bows for 108 Anxieties"
As early as the 1990s Jungwook Grace Rim used text which imbued her works with a conceptual aspect. She also began to examine varying points of view and positive negative space in her cylinder series drawings...More »