2010-02-18 9:39 / 会员可以看

My work is traveling with the exhibition Vertical Gardens to the American Institute of Architects Gallery in San Francisco and is up from February 18 - April 31, 2010. More info is attached below - in case you are in the area. Thank you for your support! (I want to go visit San Francisco soon, but not sure I can scrounge up the funds...we shall see...)

Vertical Gardens
February 18 - April 30, 2010
AIA San Francisco Gallery
130 Sutter Street, Suite 600
Opening Reception February 25, 6:00-7:15 pm | Lecture 7:15-8:00 pm
Free, Register at http://verticalgardensopening.eventbrite.com
http://www.aiasf.org/Programs/Gallery.htm

The past decade has seen an overwhelming emergence of green roofs and vertical gardens, designed to combat the lack of flora in the city. Buildings around the world—from the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco—have embraced green walls or roofs for their economical, environmental, and aesthetic values. Vertical farms and gardens are also being envisioned as new ways to feed local and organic foods to city dwellers. Largely based on the principles of hydroponics, vertical gardens are mostly self-sustaining because they capture large amounts of natural sunlight and water, and use wind as an energy source. In a country where cities are suffocated by high rises, cement and industrial materials, where can green space exist? As this exhibition demonstrates, one possible answer is “up.”

Featuring work by: Abruzzo Bodziak Architects; ATOPIA with The Harrison Studio; Bob Bingham and Claire Hoch; Patrick Blanc; Bohn & Viljoen Architects; Dickson Despommier, Eric Ellingsen, SOA Architects, Blake Kurasek; Evo Design with Mica Gross and Rogers Design Group; Todd Haiman; Haus-Rucker-Inc.; Edmundo Ortega and Dianne Rohrer; Claude Boullevraye de Passillé; Oda Projesi; Naomi Reis; Roomservices; and SITE (Denise MC Lee, Sara Stracey and James Wines).

Curated by
Vertical Gardens is an exhibition produced by Exit Art and is the third exhibition in Exit Art's SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics) program - a unique endeavor conceived by Papo Colo, Co-Founder/Artistic Director, that presents a diverse multimedia exhibition program and permanent archive of artworks that address social and environmental concerns. SEA assembles artists, activists, scientists and scholars to address environmental issues through presentations of visual art, performances, panels and lecture series that communicate international activities concerning environmental and social activism. This exhibition was conceived by Papo Colo and curated by Jeanette Ingberman, Lauren Rosati, and Herb Tam of Exit Art in New York City and was presented at Exit Art from March 28 – June 6, 2009.

Exhibition Support
Exit Art, New York, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Bloomberg LP, Carnegie Corporation, Jerome Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, O'Grady Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Public Funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, Starry Night Fund at The Tides Foundation.

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Dwell Magazine Dec/Jan 2009

2008-11-17 8:42 / 会员可以看

I have a new drawing in the Dec/Jan 2009 issue of Dwell Magazine, Theme Attic (inside back cover) section. This month's theme: Bauhaus!

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About my work...

2008-06-03 4:41 / 会员可以看

My work hovers between painting and drawing, a flat sensibility that comes from growing up in Japan among Chinese-characters and graphics mashed together to organize small spaces. Another influence is 16th-century Japanese screen paintings and 15th-century Netherlandish paintings–which jump between aerial, perspectival, and frontal views to best illustrate their stories. My painting-drawings are devoid of figures–they are abstract spaces in a parallel universe, showing how the world might look had Orwell's visions come true, if a building could self-replicate like cells, or if utopian dreamers brainstormed together to build a new habitat.

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