Hiroshi Mori
Japanese artist Hiroshi Mori earned a Master's degree at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2013. There, he studied painting production by the use of new media. Influenced by the Rimpa School of traditional Japanese painting and modern animation ("anime") culture, Mori combines traditional art with modern expression and technologies, aiming to express the anxiousness towards reality and hopes for the future by images full of rich symbolic metaphors. Hiroshi Mori likes to create novel art. During the development of his “Religious" painting series, he first tried using digital technologies to inject gold base tone into the artworks without using real gold. After multiple tests, a new artistic technique was born. As for his interest in blending new technologies into his artworks, he explains, “As a contemporary artist, I want to make use of the latest technologies as a testament to living in this age.”
From top left to right: "Prayer #3" 2014, "The End " 2014, "Favorite Place, Fallen Angel" 2015
Guy Dill
Among the most prolific and celebrated abstract sculptors in contemporary art, Guy Dill boasts an illustrious career spanning more than four decades.
In addition to his impressive list of museum collections, Dill’s work is in more than sixty prestigious corporate collections, and he’s a trustee of the International Sculpture Center in New York. Honors include National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in 1974 and 1981; a Lifetime Achievement for Art Award, Pacific Design Center, LA, 2000; and the Harman Eisner Artist in Residence at the Aspen Institute, 2010, among many others.
WARBABY WHITE
Powder coated aluminum
69” x 61” x 46”
MARINE,
Powder coated aluminum
65” x 42” x 12”
BEGG ROCK, 2007
Bronze
88” x 58” x 72”
UTE SMALL, 2010
Bronze
34” x 14” x 12”
WHITE HAYDEN, 2015
Powder coated aluminum
37” x 14” x 12”
EASY MACHINE
Aluminium
84” x 60” x 26”
CRUX, 2014
Bronze
58.5” x 36” x 22”
KHARFI
Bronze
84” x 21” x 57”
Window on, 2017
48” x 40”
Oil on Canvas
Misty, 2017
48” x 40”
Oil on Canvas
Trust me, 2017
48” x 40”
Oil on Canvas
Kloé Vano
Kloé Vano lives and works in Cannes, France. Her abstract paintings have been exhibited in Europe, the United States and Japan. Her lyrical abstractions open the reservoir of emotion and affect, exploring color, space, depth, and textures.
Disguised images of the unconscious, Vano's work succeeds in surprising us by its evocative capacity. When she obscures an image, we recall the techniques of Gerard Richter. When she looks to evoke water and roses, we think of Monet.
Through it all, however, the artist keeps her personality and originality intact. Her sensitivity outweighs all other considerations, and it is the unexpected which she embraces.
"I am free of all intention, of all systems, of all trends; I have no program, nor style, nor pretension. I love the uncertainty, the infinite and permanent insecurity" - text by Kloé Vano.
Though, 2017
48” x 40”
Oil on Canvas
EL PICO, 2014
Stone on granite slab
120” x 36” x 30”
CALTAMAR 8/10/15, 2015
Stone on wood pedestal
67” x 28” x 20”
Woods davy
For the past thirty years Davy has worked with stone in unaltered states, either from the sea or the earth, incorporating them into assemblages of precarious balance that appear to be in flux. Art writer Shana Nys Dambrot observed that Davy’s work is essentially a “kind of collaboration between artist and nature,” one in which the artist “prefers to cooperate with the pre-existing uniqueness and objecthood of his materials.”
He might be thought of as among the first “green” Postmodern artists. In fact, he comes from a long tradition of post 60s artists, who either directly or just by their practical sensibility, engage Eastern or Zen notions of oneness with nature, organic systems of change as engines of art composition, and non-disruptive respect for natural material in unaltered states. These works manage this, as they illuminate the poetry of nature. As Holly Meyers observed in the Los Angeles Times, there is “something thrilling about a work that appears to defy its own natural properties,” while at the same time one can appreciate the work’s “meditative reverence.”
NOVO LIMA, 2014
Coral mix, on granite and wood base
80” x 24” x 24”
CALTAMAR 11/14/17, 2017
Stone on wood pedestal
80” x 57” x 25”
Venice beach, 2017
53“ x 33”
Acrylic paint , paint marker on Canvas
San Pedro & 7th, 2017
40“ x 30”
Acrylic paint , paint marker on Canvas
Miki yokoyama
“Born in Fukushima, Japan, and currently residing in Los Angeles, Miki Yokoyama is an autodidact working across multiple mediums including canvas, objet d'art, murals, and live performance.
As she explores themes of life, death, and transformation, she shares her vision of the universe as a transient, interconnected experience ripe with the potential for beauty, discovery, and rebirth.
Miki is a member of the Los Angeles Art Association, her work and collaborations with fellow artists have been exhibited at locations including the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, the San Diego Art Institute, the World Art Day Gala, and the Italian Consulate General’s residence in Osaka, Japan. She is also part of the BOTART International Collection and has created murals that can be seen at locations across Los Angeles as well as in Japan.”
Journey of Life 1, 2016
70” x 20”
Oil paint, acrylic paint, cloth, cotton, wire, metal, rubber
Dermatograph *
MAIKO is the only up-and-coming artist in the world who uses Dermatograph
as the only medium of expression.
Dermatograph contains a lot of wax and can be used to mark the slick surface
of metals, glasses, plastics, ceramics and other materials including human skin.
It was originally developed for surgical operations. In artworks, it is usually
used as Lithocrayon when creating lithographs.
Maiko Kitagawa
Since ancient times, people have had a fear of darkness. To acknowledge that fear, many stories have emerged since ancient times. According to MAIKO, a young painter of 29 years,Black color in her painting is “the feeling of material in darkness”.
In the corner of darkness, it carries weight which she feels theexistence or indication of something unknown, thus the stories.
She enjoyed art since she was very young. Her mother bought her story books for kids and took her art shows and museums often. As her mother lived in South America, she visited the homes of local friends, and ate and played together with them. Unique South American cultures left a strong impression on young MAIKO. The colorful, decorated festival that depicts the closeness of life and death, the faces and costumes of different cultures were all part of a childhood experience that aroused her imagination. The strong sunshine in Latin America strongly influenced her express dense images and contrasting darkness. The solid black color in her current works depicts natural fear and the implication emerging from the dark. MAIKO’s dark artworks were inspired by her upbringing in Latin America at such an early age.
An American animation film director once saw her works and said: “The movement is like animation stories!” MAIKO has the creative power to continue and produce deep, wide and dark stories.
Maiko Kitagawa CV
"Lunar eclipse" 2014
160 ×240 cm / 5.25 x 7.87 ft
"Night journey" 2010
17.5cm x 26.5 cm / 7 x 10.5 in (sold)
"Bail" 2013, 33 x 24 cm. Bollpoint pen on paper
"Evening Party" 2014, 26.5 x 22 cm. Bollpoint pen on paper
Kenji Tsutsumi
Kenji Tusumi resident in Osaka, Japan.
“I am a traveler on the journey and my work has evolved to the theme of travelers. I have drawn a solitary journey, a journey with a dog, a journey with a family contentedly settled, and so on. I visualize those journeys taking place in locations that look familiar but do not exist....”
1969 Born in Kobe, Japan
1988 Entered Kanazawa College of Art
1993 Selected to exhibit at Koukuten Exhibition for the first time-every year since 1993
1994 Completed Master Dagree in oil painting at Kanazawa College of Art, Japan
Kenji Tsutsumi has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Japan.
He is an active member of *kokugakai.
* kokugakai – The society for National Painting
Fusako Ekuni
Fusako Ekuni hails from Tokyo, Japan. Over the past 18 years, her style has varied from a traditional Japanese style to contemporary abstract. A contemplative artist, she now creates homages to the pre-verbal universe, where the color and light interact.
Ekuni layers pure dry pigment and glue, working on several paintings in different stages simultaneously, in a process that can take months. In Japanese, this is known as “iwaenogu.” The colors in her paintings interact magically, almost invisibly, until they complete their harmonic journey. The ritual inherent to Fusako Ekuni's paintings involves the physics of the process itself.
Fusako Ekuni is graduated from Musashino Art University, Faculty of Visual Communication Design and Musashino Gakuen, the faculty of Japanese Art Style Painting.
"Into the Light no.8" 2016 80 x 80 cm