"LOVE"
The 4th 100 Artist Exhibition
Jan 5 - Jan 29 2012
This is the 4th "100 Artist Exhibition" at Ouchi Gallery in NY, whose aim is to join 100 artists from all over the world including NY local artists to have a phenomenal group exhibition. The theme for this exhibition is "LOVE". "LOVE" of uniting the world, one and only "LOVE", "LOVE" of connecting hearts... "LOVE" by 100 artist will be sent from NY.

1 of the 100 artists will win "Zank&Mars in NY Award," and will receive the right to hold a solo exhibition at Ouchi Gallery in 2013 for free, and will be able to join the Zank&Mars artist agency. (See www.zankandmarsllc.com for the agency info.)

Photos from the 1st “100 Artist Exhibition” (2010) ：http://www.flickr.com/photos/ouchigallery/sets/72157623161388150
Photos from the 2nd “100 Artist Exhibition” (Jan. 2011) ：http://www.flickr.com/photos/ouchigallery/sets/72157625644532823/
Photos from the 3nd “100 Artist Exhibition” (Jun. 2011) ：http://www.flickr.com/photos/ouchigallery/sets/72157626892424986/
Photos from the 4th “100 Artist Exhibition” (Jan. 2012) ：http://www.flickr.com/photos/ouchigallery/sets/72157628782927079/

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"THE WAY OF LIFE"
Joeun K Kim
Yolanda Ivana Cordoba
Gerardo R Casas
Behrooz Nournia
Brigitte Golde
curator : Vito Giancaspro
Dec 4 - Dec 11 2011
Joeun K Kim
http://www.Joeunkim.com/
The art that I creates is based on poetically charged metaphors and symbols which are derived from keen introspection and psychological nuance that allow me to express my current perspective on life. Surrealism allows me to explore my thoughts and emotions which I normally find challenging verbalize. In my latest series of drawings, I ask myself and the viewer, "What burden, guilt, or shame do each one of us carry upon our backs?" In some cases what we carry on our backs is as dear as life itself and this pressure can weigh heavily upon us. The notion of guilt, burden, and shame on our backs act as a meditation on self perseverance. The figures in the series, whose stooped bodies carry significant objects on their backs, represent people who sacrifice themselves for the things that matter to them. No matter how heavy or light the weight of the object is, the figures' expressions remain serene, which references complacency and acceptance of the situation and also, perhaps as a guilty pleasure. In the series, each object on the figures' backs can be interpreted as symbols referring to a variety of mundane burdens one may experience, such as having a pet pr paying for rent. One particular image that is highly self-refrentional to me is the cuckoo clock. The cuckoo clock is a metaphor for some parents, that I've seen, who have similar parental traits as the cuckoo bird which lays its eggs in the nest of other species of bird to avoid raising its offspring. However, I have included carnation flowers which support the clock firmly as a symbol of respect and love of their children for those parents no matter their irresponsibility.

Yolanda Ivana Cordoba
Yolanda Ivana Cordoba was born 1979 in New York City, where the artist currently works and resides. Her work consists of images both real and imagined. Her art is influenced by her surroundings, her emotional interaction with people, from nature that offer everyday inspiration and the city it self. She wants her work to convey strong emotional awareness. To allow the viewer to relate to her work on a personal emotional level.

Gerardo R. Casas
Gerardo R. Casas, born and raised in Queens, N.Y. Right after graduating from High School of Arts and Business he attended LaGuardia Community College, where he obtained his AA in Fine Arts, graduated with honors. Then he transferred to School of Visual Arts. He will graduate soon at SVA. Now he is a few steps closer to achieve his BFA majoring in Cartooning.

Behrooz Nournia
Behrooz Nournia is an accomplished artist in painting, sculpture and prints. Inspired by the beauty of his native country Iran, he has a lifelong fascination with aquatic creatures, particularly fish. In Iranian culture, fish are dominant elements. Almost every home in Iran has a fish pond in the garden. The fish plays a symbolic part in the Persian New Year Ceremony, and Iranians believe that fish are an Integral part of the Universe, and having them at home imparts beauty, grace and luck for the inhabitants. The subject of this exhibition focuses on the artist's deep impression of the dynamic movement of fish in the majestic splendor of the sea. Behrooz has a very diversified background of accomplishments. He holds two Masters Degrees in Architecture from Tehran University (1969) and McGill University, Montreal (1974). He has been practicing as a registered architecture and urban designer for the last thirty five years in Iran, Canada and USA, during which he has exhibited his art internationally.

Brigitte Golde
http://www.wix.com/brigittegolde/works
Brigitte Golde is a mixed media painter, sculptor and short filmmaker born and raised in New York City. She works with found objects in many of her pieces to illustrate the material fluxes that permeate the urban landscape, from recovered childhood garbage to 99-cent store kitsch to coupons from the grocery store she frequents. With earlier works such as "bloody beach" and "dinosaur garden", she created dense interwoven textures that blanket the canvas. Imbedded in cords of stucco, high gloss gels, and gritty pumice, these works aspire towards imagined landscapes lacking central subjects or focal points. Her painting technique is inspired by the textures of her materials; the paints applied to the canvas imitate the imbedded objects. In the more recent works, she has applied these original techniques to a more subject oriented style of paintings. In works such as "woman as doormat", it is as if the subject has been extracted from one of her convoluted landscapes and presented in its own individual light. These works still draw heavily on the artist's original techniques such as layering, applying visuo-tactile gradations, and infusing found objects into re-imagined contexts. In all of her works, the artist draws upon collections spanning her whole life. She has stated, "Disposing of these crystals, sticks, Barbie shoes and other accumulations through a creative process is my answer to the accusation that I am a hoarder." A common symbolic theme included the absurdity of propriety. She jests at the existential crisis of white womanhood but also laments at the commoditization of the female body. Brigitte currently lives in Manhattan and is pursuing postgraduate work in animal behavior and memory.

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"ILLUSION"
Tomoya Tsukamoto
Nov 29 - Dec 4 2011
Tomoya Tsukamoto was born in 1982 in Japan, he lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.
Tsukamoto has been creating artworks focusing on pictorial expression with a theme of "boundary between light and shadow," in which he hope to keep a trace of ephemeral light and shadow in his work. A certain existence recognized before it has gone. The absence makes you sense a new clear reality of the existence. His work attempts to represent a fresh sense of life or presence generated by the elusive mysterious phenomenon of light and shadow.The motifs repeated in his work--trees or plants swaying in the wind, sunbeams streaming from the leaves of trees, or the flow of water--are a symbol of evanescence in which a shape does not stop changing even in a moment. By representing those motifs like a shadow that appears but very soon disappears, He is questioning about "What is an object?" In fusing objects into nature, or in depicting boundaries fused and fitted into the surroundings, which can be called "pictorial mimicry," he sees a fate that man as part of nature must respond to the changing environment. Tsukamoto wonders if what you see is what exists there now or only a trace of something that once existed there and reminds you of its disappearance? How a viewer sees it depends on his or her imagination.

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"Illustrator Kana Shimao"
Kana Shimao
Nov 22 - Nov 27 2011
Japanese illustrator. Kana Shimao, was born in Tokyo in 1974. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1995, but later went on to work in the fashion industry. After two years in fashion, Shimao decided to go to Australia to study English and art. There, she took illustration and design courses at The Gold Coast Art School, Julian Ashton Art School, and Sydney University where, at almost thirty-two years of age, she found her way into the world of illustration. She began to channel her inspiration and imagination through a more European style of expression, drawing distinctly warm-hearted illustrations using acrylics and collage to create postcard designs and other small-scale pieces.
After returning to Tokyo in 2006, Shimao studied at the Vantan School and began establishing herself in both illustration and design around Japan. Her work has appeared in a variety of group and solo exhibitions around Japan. And she has won awards: at Mireya Gallery (ミレージャギャラリー) in Ginza, she was award the gallery prize for her piece in the LOVE & TOKYO exhibition, and in Chiba Prefecture, she was awarded Takako Shirai Prize for her work in the Rail Art exhibition (ユーカリが丘レールアート展). Shimao’s diverse portfolio of design work spans from logo and banner design for the Alere Vintage web store and character design for the Rough Stone website, to stamp design for Sweet-Stamp, and her most recent work, which she worked on in conjunction with G&G Service, an E-book of Alice in Wonderland.
Presently, Shimao is preparing for her American debut. She will hold a solo-exhibition at Ouchi Art Gallery in New York City in November of 2011.

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Memorial Tribute
JACEK MACZYNSKI
Nov 15 - Nov 20 2011
In October 2011 in his parents' home, Polish painter Jacek Maczynski passed away. After graduating from the College for Photography and Audio-Visual Techniques in Warsaw, Poland Maczynski moved to New York City where he lived for many years. In New York he found himself constantly exposed to diversity and unique multicultural communities, and through his artwork, which he exhibited frequently around New York, he illustrated his interest in connecting these cultures. With his art he hoped to enable an artistic dialogue to tie together these many cultural traditions. Working with egg tempera paint and oil, as a reference to the art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Europe, and painting monochromatically, as a reference to Chinese ink plum painting, Maczynski's art sought to bridge the worlds of East and West. His works connected the spiritual heritage of both worlds, translating Catholic experiences of religious contemplation to Zen Buddhist exercises of the spirit. Through his art, he connected us to each other and to our shared pasts. For those fortunate enough to have know him and been touched by his artworks, Jacek Maczynski's untimely death is a true loss.

http://jmaczynski.blogspot.com/

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0℃
Riku Ikegaya
Nov 8 - Nov 13 2011
Riku Ikegaya was born in 1982 in Tokyo, Japan. At Tama Art University he studied Environment Design, and after graduating in 2007 he worked under architect Shinichi Ogawa for three years. During this time Ikegaya started his artistic activities. Then, in 2010 he moved to Berlin where he has since been living and working as an artist. At an early stage of his career, Ikegaya has already received recognition including the UJADF Award.
In his art, Ikegaya illustrates his fascination with the ideas of time, memory, and boundary. As an architect, experiencing the ideas of construction, deconstruction and reconstruction all in succession, he began to consider presenting the visible world with a space small and blank, an expression of time and memory, contained within a box called "home." Through the invention of this domain, where a dividing wall places what is inside and what is outside into two parts in separate spaces above a boundary line, Ikegaya not only works retrospectively, but he also takes on a reconstructive process. In a technologically inclined age defined by the internet and and increasingly superficial relationships, Ikegaya attempts to access ideas that, although part of the world, only exist in an invisible layer. And even if it is only through art, he holds on, hopeful for the preservation of genuine human interaction.

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Rinpotage
Rie Yamamoto
Nov 1 - Nov 6 2011
Rie Yamamoto is a Japanese illustrator. She studied design, illustration, and bookbinding techniques at the College of Arts in Kyoto. After working at design firm,, in 2008 Rie began her career as an illustrator. Although mostly working in Japan, her art has also been displayed in the United States, Germany, and Malaysia.
Using colored ink and acrylic gauche, she has traditionally painted many of her works in deep, warm colors. However, since the March 11th earthquake, her preference has been for a brighter palette. And this may be fitting for the theme of her work. With flowers and ribbons as motifs, she illustrates the modern day maiden, a young girl of purity, innocence, and insecurities as well. The title of Rie Yamamoto’s solo exhibition, “Ripnotage,” comes from her childhood years and how she would keep her secrets close to her mind.

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Puzzle
Yoshimi
Oct 25 - Oct 30 2011
Yoshimi was raised in the Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan. After graduating from junior college, she took an opportunity to travel to Southeast Asia, where she lived over the next five years. There she spent time studying artistic practices from a native of Indonesia, primarily dyeing and Chinese style drawing. During this time she experienced color strongly in a way that still reflects in her art today.
Returning to Tokyo, she went through the process of collecting art from Southeast Asia, and Indonesia in particular. Since returning to Japan, she has exhibited these along with her own artworks in a variety of galleries in Tokyo, Harajuku, Roppongi, and Southern Aoyama. At the same time, she began studying color therapy. Drawing on her past experiences, she developed a sense for how color can affect the heart. In this vein, she published a digital work in June of 2010 titled, “Color Therapy Card: a message from color ~ to be happy.” Yoshimi also has experience as an art coordinator and a curator. In Yokohama she worked together with businesses to select decorative art for several restaurants and model apartment rooms.
Puzzle is Yoshimi’s first exhibit overseas. The works are strongly based on the idea of decalcomanie, something she first encountered when she came across the art of Shuzo Takiguchi. Decalcomanie in a sense means translocation, the intention is to depict the imagined landscapes of the mind. Uses this technique and adding washi Japanese paper, Yoshimi has created art in search of a quality both varied and in a state of transformation. The pieces are designed as squares of the same size, so that the puzzle-like transformation depends on their layout. Giving each exhibition the freedom to change its structure, Yoshimi hopes Puzzle will be a valuable opportunity to see a variety of perspectives from each person that sees it.
Yoshimi describes expression as something that heals people. And she has made it her mission to convey that through her art. Bringing color to people’s hearts, and learning about the effects that has, it is something she reflects in her own work. And at the same time, it is something that she is still continuing to grapple with.

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sway
Hiroki Yamashita
Oct 18 - Oct 23 2011
Hiroki Yamashita was born in Shizuoka-shi, Japan in 1951. In himself being surprised, it is the next year when the Korean War began in.
He was charmed by cartoons at the time of the child, in his memory, he drew cartoons on the concrete floor of the nursery school with a piece of agalmatolite earnestly while called out by a crow flying in dusk.
The cover picture of the watercolor technique book called "The paysage guide" that he watched in tears of severe lost love in the season of the end of the high school student became the motive of his drawing and painting seriously.
Studying mathematics and learning art in Shizuoka University, but he wanted to make a career for himself as a writer without thinking at that time.
There was the exhibition of Isamu Noguchi on one day of 1992, at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. In front of the tremendous works he fell into the delusion that he wanted to die in art if he died. And he came back to art again and has reached at the present.

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Messenger
Ryo Makioka
Oct 11 - Oct 16 2011
Ryo Makioka was born in 1959 in Kanagawa prefecture, just south of Tokyo, Japan. He grew up in the small seaboard town of Zushi where from the time he was a child he has fostered a love for both music and art. Makioka studied design at Tokai University in Tokyo. After this he began working in a pipe organ production studio studying manufacturing. After that, while working as an illustrator, he tried his hand at making pictures.
Makioka’s works have been displayed around Japan. He has been featured in group exhibitions at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, the Hiratsuka City Art Museum, among others. He has also held a solo exhibition at New Otani Hotel in Tokyo and Gallery art Truth in Yokohama.
Presently, using the simple tools of a board and a box of pastels, Makioka is stepping out again to explore a more original painting style. Corresponding with his strong feelings of hope for the future, he creates works based around the theme of light. A light that he hopes might be bright enough to illuminate the truth.

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Takeshi Sato A.K.A. GOSPEL
Oct 4 - Oct 9 2011
He got interested in arts and comics in his childhood. He moved to Tokyo in 1990 to seek an environment where He can continue painting.
Then, in 1992 He got a deep impact from HipHop culture and Graffiti. He have been learning various techniques by himself and searching his own style of expression, and have made room for himself in. Warm characters paint with many kinds of methods such as acrylic, air-brush, sprays …etc, have gained favour with many people. He keep on expressing his own “color” without being swayed by prevailing trend in well-developed Japanese HipHop culture.
His arts do not lose the original point while “things which look like that” are everywhere not only about HipHop these days. His artistic activities are supported in various ways such as apparel, CD artworks, magazine designs both in major and in underground culture.

HomePage : http://gospelfortramps.com/

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In Pursuit of Life
Jiyang Kim
Sep 27 - Oct 2 2011
Jiyang Kim was born in Seoul, Republic of Korea. She became interested in art after she came to U.S for studying. She majored in fine art and art education at Corcoran College of Art and Design from 2009 to 2011. Her passion for art began as part of her need-desire to discover new aspects of herself. Also she wanted to clarify her goals in developing her art skills and activities. Jiyang feels a good deal of self -confidence when her work is going well. Working on her own art is like she has traveled around the world and discovered “her” style. She uses many kinds of materials like wire, button, and newspaper, to express different aspects of objects. Drawing or painting for a realistic depiction is not her style. She wants to show something that people can perceive not only with their eyes, but their ears and their hearts as well.

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nostalgia
Munemi Natsu
Sep 20 - Sep 25 2011
Munemi Natsu was born in 1980 and grew up in Tokyo, Japan. After she had majored in literature at University, desiring for something to create, she started personal photograph projects with her antique half-frame camera. She mainly takes photographs of nature and daily life of ordinary people. The documentary project in various places of Japan is her life work.
Munemi participates in some domestic and foreign exhibitions. This is her first solo exhibition. Through her artworks (such as photography, painting, music), she encounters the fundamental hope or solitude of mankind, and expresses unfathomable depths of the human mind.

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The Ushimaru Saeki World
Ushimaru Saeki
Sep 13 - Sep 18 2011
Who is Ushimaru Saeki?
Her art is most certainly happy, unique, cute & erotic too. But who is Ushimaru Saeki? Born in 1986 in the town of Tochigi, this is one young Japanese artist who is doing everything in her power to warm the world with her art.
Graduated from the Art & Design department of Sakushin-Gakushin High School, she acquired her first experiences as an artist in her hometown, Utsunomiya. Then, in the fall of 2007, she moved to Tokyo. There she met a variety of artists, encouraging her to challenge herself and broaden her horizons. She began to look at art beyond the image, even trying her hand at gospel music.
In the winter of 2009, Saeki returned to Utsunomiya to work on the development of an arts quarter in the city: “Creating only what I can, I stand on the yet unwalked, unknown path, and I take a step forward. Steadily, drawn to myself.”

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Fusion
Puzzle Project in NY 2011
Aug 23 - Aug 28 2011
This project will involve many different artists independently creating artwork on puzzle piece shaped canvases. All pieces will finally be connected and assembled creating one large puzzle. The artists will not know what each other are creating, and no one will know what the final creation will be until it is assembled.
The theme of the project:
EXCEEDING THE BOUNDARY OF NATION, RELIGION AND RACE WITH ART: IT WILL BE CONNECTED!
The world is a place where things connect and interconnect; they affect each other regardless of direct relations. This project will present a world showing how these interconnections and relations represent the order and disorder of existence. While politicians and big business may care little for the common people, we strongly believe that art will be able to expand the importance and feasibility of reconciliation; we don't need further opposition and separation.

The past PUZZLE PROJECT
PUZZLE PROJECT in KIX (2011)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/osakacp_info/sets/72157626242197260/with/5562972353/
https://picasaweb.google.com/unipon2kau2/PUZZLEPROJECTInKIX?feat=directlink

PUZZLE PROJECT in Toronto (2010)
https://picasaweb.google.com/unipon2kau2/PUZZLEPROJECTInToronto2010?feat=directlink

PUZZLE PROJECT 2008 (London, U.K.)
https://picasaweb.google.com/100084562528327771070/PUZZLEPROJECT2008InUK?feat=directlink

PUZZLE PROJECT 2008 (Osaka, Japan)
https://picasaweb.google.com/unipon2kau2/PUZZLEPROJECT2008InJapanInstallationView?feat=directlink.

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Flower Transformation
Aya Abe
Aug 16 - Aug 21 2011
Aya Abe was born in Tokyo, Japan. When she was a baby, she swayed her hips to the rhythm of music even before she started walking. Because she was such a performance-loving baby, her mother brought her to a dance studio at her age of 4. She has been enjoying dancing since then. In her childhood she also loved to draw comics and her dream was becoming a cartoonist. When she was in her teens, she had a chance to live in Ithaca, N.Y., for a year with her family, and attended Ithaca High School. Whoever once lived in a foreign country starts thinking about her own culture, and so was she.
She received Master of Education in Fine Arts in Japanese-Style Paintings at Tokyo Gakugei University in 1980. She has been holding many exhibitions including solo as well as group shows of her art works since 1990.
In the last 10 years, she has focused on flowers in search for their beauties in designed pattern that characterizes traditional Japanese Art. She also attempts at extemporaneous drawing, combining it with designed pattern, which results in what she believes a contemporary Japanese-style painting with supreme elegance.

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píːs
Noriko Ii
Aug 9 - Aug 14 2011
Noriko Ii grew up about two hours south of Tokyo in the Shizuoka Prefecture of Japan. She studied art at Shizuoka University and graduated with a degree in art education. Since then, she has been working as a public school teacher while painting on the side. In some ways her artworks reflect her hectic days at school with loud colors, and tightly packed masses of people. However, in each mess of figures, there is also a well-crafted harmony that brings a sense of peace and stillness to her work.
Píːs is Noriko Li’s first solo exhibition and international debut. She hopes her artwork can be something precious for those who see it.

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AND BUBBLE GUM
Natsuko Tatsumi
Aug 2 - Aug 7 2011
Natsuko Tatsumi was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1983. However, when she was four months old, she moved to New York where for her father’s job. In New York, she went to a kindergarten that allowed her freedom to do whatever she was interested. Drawing pictures became one of her favorite activities. Then, at five years old, when her family returned to Tokyo, she started going to a drawing class in their neighborhood. Art became her favorite subject in school, and she excelled at it. Tatsumi has since graduated from Musashino Art University in 2007 and is now selling her art in the form of postcards and greeting cards in cafés and small articles shops around Japan. Her hope is that her art will help bring happiness to those who see it.

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Froth on the Daydream
Michiko Horie
Jul 26 - Jul 31 2011
Michiko Horie was born in Tokyo, Japan where she completed her studies at School of Design. She moved to France 1998 and now lives and works in Paris. Paris became her main stage where she holds an exhibition of her works. Recently, she started the exhibition in New York Tokyo. She creates a large part of her work by instinctive inspiration, drawing on memories, dreams, and the present reality.
She states that "Recollection of my girlhood dwell in my mind and has asked me many spontaneous questions. My work derives from these questions, desires, fears and girly dreams. I convey these feelings by images or sometimes words. I'm also inspired by incidents read in newspapers and literature books. I am engaged in story telling. I started my art with paintings and then developed , which I have incorporated in my work. These new adopted techniques have freed me from formalities and has opened new perspectives."

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AThe Dreamer (The CHUNG CHOON Space)
Hwayoun Lee
Jul 19 - Jul 24 2011
Hwayoun Lee was born in Kunsan, a small city, Korea, in 1982. She studied Painting at Dankook University in South Korea. In 2006, she went to study at “Maryland Institute College of Art,USA,in Illustration Major. After 2008,They have worked with Publishers and authors for a children’s book with her Illustration. Her first book with her illustration," Spencer's First Dollar"is published in 2009. She moved to New York, 2008 fall. She is still staying in New York and have worked as a drawing jewelry designer”and a Freelancer Illustrator.Moreover, she wants to say her works as Multidisciplinary. As an artist, she approaches her personal drawing and illustration works into an art book with a special poetic mood-Flexibility and freedom in using materials and style. For her book, drawing illustration, she consider concept and communication as the most significant part in her art.

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A Process of the evolution
Shingo Ishida
Jul 12 - Jul 17 2011
Shingo Ishida expressed it since the days of a student in various ways experimentally. It is an illustration / a picture / cartoon film live broadcasting paint. He has an ideal and the completion form of the work to do. It is creation of the line drawing like oneself. He pictured a character illustration with an aqueous pen mainly so far for a long term. However, without the directionality that my work should advance to between a commercial illustration and modern art while He is active as a writer being decided / Days He was similar, and to make a tangle continued. He continue groping for the pursuit of new line drawing now to steal out of such a hesitation. By the way, He featured the theme of a process of the evolution before reaching it from the origin of my line drawing at the present by this private exhibition.
He thinks creation whether He thoroughly can enjoy the world of overflowing line drawing to the full.

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colors
u-chora
Jul 6 - Jul 11 2011
u-chora is a Japanese illustrater and artist. She has published a variety of her works through leather arts, shutter paints, live paints , also in personal exhibitions.
Born in Saitama in the greater Tokyo metropolitan area in Japan in 1984, she was raised in a town with a lot of nature and loved painting pictures of nature and stories.
She was impressed and inspired by works painted by a blind illustrator in her early teens. She was shocked to know that a picture painted by a blind person who had never seen anything could move people so much. By the incident, she became aware of what you can't see but you can sense in arts and expressions.
After graduated from a design school, she worked as a designer for a while but decided to become an artist to express her inner feelings from within in a painting.
Her theme is to express beauty of every life, colors of human feelings through herself in canvas.

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First
Paik Sae Hyun
Jun 30 - July 5 2011
Paik Sae Hyun was born in 1987 in in-chon Korea. After high school, she worked as an illustrator and a designer. She also went to design school (sadi-samsung art and design institute) and she studied visual graphics for one year of the foundation step.
She has a stronger passion for art than design. In the spring 2010, She quit design school and came to New York alone to begin her life as an artist.
She is interested in painting, installation art, video art and interactive art, and she focuses on abstract painting. This is the first solo exhibition for her.

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Red
3rd 100Artist Exhibition
Jun 3 - Jun 30 2011
This is the 3rd "100 Artist Exhibition" at Ouchi Gallery in NY, where aim is to join 100 artists from all over the world including NY local artists to have aphenomenal group exhibition.

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Fragment of memories
Naoko Ogasawara
May 24 - May 29 2011
Though a creative works, she seeks ambivalent relations of the body, flesh of desire and sorrow, in a same time shrine of soul, and the spirit. Also, she wishes to contain instantaneousness of mixture of time and energy into her art works eternally. To her artworks, she repeatedly uses the red camellia, shed pollen even a bloom fell to a ground that gives herimpression obsession to the life. The red camellia is her symbols of death and regeneration, light and darkness, anima and animus, real world and another world. Naoko Ogasawara has born 1963 at Tokyo. After graduate university as economic major, she started her career as a graphic designer and advertising planner. From 1993, she studied at Corcoran college of Art, Washington, D.C. majoring fine art. Restart her painting activities from 2009. Based on Kobe, Japan.

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Ouchi ～4 room
Yumi Umeda
May 17 - May 22 2011
Yumi Umeda was born in 1985 in Shizuoka, Japan. When she was a child , she liked music and illustration and sports. When she was in college she majored in psychology. Outside her studies she enjoyed taking as well as drawing pictures. Now, she is working at her own pace , creating and expressing her ideas. She attachs importance to the sense of birth rather than the sense of creating. She draws not a good picture but a free with a pencil, an acrylic color, and a personal computer today..

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All beings
Fumika Tanaka
May 10 - May 15 2011
FUMIKA feel that man and the animal are similarly honorable. She is a vegetarian, and loves trees with the animal in the childhood. FUMIKA is drawing the animal and the person in a lot of works.　She was born in 1980 in Japan, and began to draw the picture from 12-years old time by self-study,and reached the style of the sumi-e painting at last 10 years later. Please supplement the part where the picture is not drawn with your imagination and character. Doing so and giving birth are your and her arts.

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Stylish Nostalgia
Junko Yamamoto
May 3 - May 8 2011
Junko Yamamoto was born in Takefu-city, Fukui, and she grew up in Ibaraki, in Tokyo, in Chiba (Japan). She began ceramic art at 18 years old in a ceramic art vocational school. Firstly the ceramist who had a great influence was ceramist KAZ YAMADA. He lives near her father's parents' home. And ceramist married couple Roy&Pat Addison in N.Z which she went t study to the atelier while attending school. They decided to have Junko Yamamoto as a first and a last pupil. In addition, She comes under great influence from copperplate painter Hiroaki Miyayama playing an active part globally. He has given art guidance to her since she was 16 years old all the time. After graduation, she started working for KOKONOTUIDO of Yokohama Co., Ltd. in 1996 and was in charge of a production design of the ceramics. She went to study to the ceramic art atelier of Firenze Itary in 1998. From that time, she roamed more than 20 countries to see ruins and art museums all over the world, and to find her style in those days. She keeps saving the one to have been impressed sincerely and what thought to be beautiful in her mind, making her works earnestly, and established her style in that. She especially likes containers form of Greece and Egyptian in B.C. and go tinged with "Wabi(austere refinement)" called in Japan and the old taste such as the thing which it is embezzled, in and seem to have rotted away or the old building, so the beauty of the thing which is disappeared, in particular. It was united with the sense that she was modern and stylish, and an original, beautiful works were completed. The solo exhibition held in Japan many times and so far in Italy. Junko will hold the first solo exhibition in NY this time..

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Wabby Savvy
Apr 26 - May 1 2011
Wabby Savvy( born Kayoko Matsuo) was born in Japan, 1971. After graduation from art college, she started her career as a graphic designer for stationery of paper products in Kobe. In 2004, she entered a school of ceramic art in Kyoto, to study porcelain paining. After that, she worked at a pottery in Kyoto for three years as a porcelain painter. Now she lives in Tokyo, working as a freelance graphic designer/ illustrator. Her strength is her drawing. She has been inspired by the Japanese traditional arts and crafts such as Ukiyoe very much ; she’s always trying to express the taste of them somewhere in her own works and make them fit in with contemporary life.

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