RESOBOX Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for RESOBOX Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“The Bonsai art of Bonsai NYC” Exhibition
“Bonsai allows us to be present in nature even in the middle of a bustling city. They can magnify nature’s spirit by helping the soul interpret and experience the mood of the landscape.” RESOBOX presents...More »
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“Worship in Meiji Era Japan” Exhibition
Relive nineteenth century religion of Meiji Era Japan when Buddhism and Shintoism prevailed. RESOBOX gallery presents the fifth annual exhibition of hand-painted nineteenth century Japanese photographs...More »
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Bruce Gardner “Hikaru Dorodango”
Balls of Mud Made into Shining Orbs: A Different Look at “Dorodango” Remember when you would play in sandboxes as kids and make fun creations out of sand? Dorodango, making “mud balls,” is a similar...More »
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Yuki Ideguchi “Reincarnation and Creation: A Vortex into the Meaning of Existence”
Dive into the world of Yuki Ideguchi, an artist whose work specializes in transience of life, and the conflict between life and death. Through “Vortex,” he takes on the process of creation and reincarnation...More »
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“Origami in Action: A New Approach to Applied Origami” Exhibition
Best known for making Pop – Up comic books, Sam Ita was asked by emerging Italian publisher, Nui Nui, to create a series of origami books, beginning with paper planes. After much initial struggle, he...More »
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“World Amigurumi Exhibition vol. 2”
What started as a unique Japanese crochet art only a few decades ago, amigurumi is now spreading like wild fire across the globe. As a Japanese cultural center in New York City, an extremely vibrant and...More »
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“Japanese Ritual Industry: Silk, Rice & Tea” Exhibition
RESOBOX Gallery presents an exhibition of hand-painted nineteenth century Japanese photographs from The Burns Collection & Archive. The ritual production of silk, rice and tea was integral to Japan’s...More »
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Yasumitsu Morito “Firing Earth”
Yasumitsu Morito is showing his latest sculptures and unique Mashiko potteries, with a celebration of both Japanese craftsmanship and humanity. For him, art can become a bridge between diverse communities...More »
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Peelander-Yellow “I’m Yellow”
RESOBOX Gallery will turn completely yellow during this exhibition! Peelander-Yellow will paint murals featuring the color yellow on RESOBOX’s walls, tables, chairs, and even the ceiling! And, during the...More »
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Mayuko Okada “Gold Box”
The gold box is storage for your impressions. There are many gold boxes in your heart. Cold boxes, bright boxes. What kind of view is spreading in your gold box? Born and raised in Japan’s ancient...More »
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“Your Presence Is Requested” Exhibition
Curated by Maria Dimanshtein Mindfulness, being in the moment – these terms are starting to sound banal as we talk more and more about technology hijacking our attention, while our lives are growing...More »
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“World Amigurumi” Exhibition
Resobox Gallery exhibits 3,000 amigurumi contributed by over 130 artists from 30 different countries. Resobox Gallery wants to turn the space into an “amigurumi room”, filled to the brim with cuddly and...More »
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Gaku Ogaki “Komondaru Furniture: COMON-DARU”
Resobox Gallery presents a unique exhibition from designer Gaku Ogaki who recreated komondaru (traditional Japanese sake barrels) into functional pieces of furniture. A komodaru is a wooden barrel designed...More »
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“Japan – An Island Nation: 1870-1890” Exhibition
The Resobox Gallery presents an exhibition of Nineteenth-Century hand-colored photographs of the visual island landscape of Meiji Japan from The Burns Archive. The images in this exhibition showcase...More »
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Shoko Kazama “Otogizoshi: Bokusai”
As the word “Bokusai” (boku is ink and sai is color) tells you, there are various colors found in the colors of black and white. Some go together well but others oppose each other. Therefore, there is...More »
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Jacek Maczynski ”Bathhouse”
Jacek Maczynski, a Polish-born artist responds in his work to the cultural diversity of New York City, his adoptive home. Interest in Asian calligraphy has led him to experiment with the pictorial idioms...More »
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“Kaiju Art”
RESOBOX Gallery presents the “KAIJU Art Exhibition”. “Kaiju” is a well known Japanese word meaning [monster]. A staple of Japanese sci-fi movies (Tokusatsu-Eiga) like Godzilla, Gamera,and the Ultraman...More »
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“Working Life in Meiji Japan 1868-1912” Exhibition
The Resobox Gallery presents an exhibition of Nineteenth-Century hand-colored photographs of Japanese entrepreneurial class culture from The Burns Archive. The images in this exhibition showcase the...More »
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Miho Morita “Dream / Doomed songs”
I was walking down the street in Brooklyn, I see the wall is covered with graffiti. I see the curses of people, someone attempt to cover it up today but it will be painted again tomorrow. A sore that...More »
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Mayumi Takagi “Whispering Cascades”
When creating this body of artwork, I held a Kōan in my mind. A Kōan is a question or statement used in Zen practice to provoke deeper understanding. A Zen master might give his students this Kōan: “You...More »
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“Explore L.I.C. Life, Time & History” Exhibition
Resobox Gallery presents s group exhibition themed “Long Island City life, time and history”. Various artists and photographers will show their view on the neighborhood: life in LIC, art, people, streets,...More »
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Meiko Anekawa Exhibition
“Anekawa’s works demonstrate a curious combination of the ability to immerse the viewer into her wonder-world, but also render them as mere objective perceivers at the same time. The visual tension within...More »
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Ayakoh Furukawa "Who Was Not Created By A Woman?"
Inside our mothers’ womb, we are protected as a singular newborn life. However, once we enter into the world, we are inevitably faced with the irrationalities of the world, and thus forget the original...More »
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Carla Lobmier and Mary Wheeler Joint Exhibition
The work of Carla Lobmier unfolds in time before the eyes. Imagery shifts and connects as the viewer’s eyes travel across the horizontal scrolls, a format influenced by Japanese tradition. Pieces in a...More »
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"Geisha: The Golden Years 1870-1890" Exhibition
The Resobox Gallery presents an exhibition of Ninteenth-Century hand-colored photographs of Geisha and Maiko from the Burns Archive. These photographs are the original images used by Dr. Stanley Burns...More »
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Noa Shay "The Child is Gone"
“The Child is Gone” deals with subjects of loss, grief, hope and renewal. It relates to times in our lives when great forces seem to determine our fate, sometimes hazardously. This is the situation in...More »
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Mayuko Okada “Yellow Cab + Wasabi”
What do you think of when you see every NYC street being occupied by yellow cabs? I thought about the word “bloodstream.” The tide of yellow cabs seems like blood running along the bloodstream in the...More »