Sun is all bitter
Shoyo Jahana
Aug 23 - Aug 29 2010
Jahana draws and creates artworks by using his fingernails. Jahana believes that the act of using his fingernails, the personal touch of his body, gives his work life. Jahana also works with crayons because it is a primitive and familiar medium. Jahana writes characters on the wood panel with the crayon, these characters represents his daily life. They represent the making of anger, sadness, hatred, and etc. Jahana paints with a jet-black crayon then scratchs into it with his fingernails. The scratch picture is then decorated with lame, fold foil, and other materials. This act is like the prayer. Nobody will see the character concealed in the ground of the work. However, it exists and will surely transmit to others in some shape or form.

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Fusion
Maika Kobayashi
Aug 17 - Aug 22 2010
Kobayashi was born in Tokyo on November 10, 1986. After graduating from an art academy in March 2009, Kobayashi started her career as a freelance illustrator. That same year in September, Kobayashi started to seek “my own world” as an artist and putting more emphasis on artistic activities. Kobayashi's creations are of the realism style, drawn with a precise hand and done in acrylic color. Kobayashi believes in the analogue style painting on Kent paper stretched on a wooden panel. Literally, a “Fledging Expresser.” There will be more opportunities to introduce her art works with exhibitions and events to come, at home and abroad.

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Dignified Stillness
Takashi Onishi
Aug 10 - Aug 14 2010
Onishi was born in Osaka, 1978. As a child Onishi went to art school which made him open his eyes to painting. Onishi established a painting school in Osaka during 2006, there he teaches painting for the local art lovers. "My purpose is to pursuit my world of painting and to preach the wonderfulness of art." Exhibitions : held at Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka in Japan

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Funeral-Art Decorations
Yumi Morimoto
Aug 3 - Aug 8 2010
I take great pride and pleasure in announcing my exhibition of new concept “The Funeral-Art Decorations”. This is my first official exhibition in New York City. “The Funeral-Art Decorations” which I established uses funeral decoration as an art method. In my country (Japan) there are no memorable funeral decorations. Typical Japanese funerals decorate with only white mums flowers. There is no difference between men and women funeral decorations. In my opinion, each person has a different life so their funeral decorations should be different as well. I question why Japanese funeral decorations are always the same. Today, most Japanese people are Americanized, so why are their funerals still decorated in the old and traditional Japanese style? I found the answer by using Western funeral-decorations to finally express individuality. The most important thing in funeral decorations is to express a persons life. Today, most people across the border are mixed with cultures, such as New York City. In my exhibition, I express the mixed cultures using Japanese X Art deco. I use Japanese traditional Obi belt and western Art deco decorations together. I exhibit Funeral-Art Decorations and Art-Urns with original and Art-Deco designs. “Funeral-Art Decorations” is the unlimited expression of individuality.

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YAOYOROZU MIX
Minoru Oikawa
July 28 - Aug 1 2010
I believe humans of today and of ancient times gain from the natural benifits of nature, struggle to coexist with it. Do you agree? Japanese people believe that all natural and living things have a god in them, such as - rivergod, mountaingod, plantgod,animalgods, rockgod,raingod,wind and firegod. The name of this belief is called "Yaoyorozu no Kami". This way of thinking has been around for hundreds of years. Yaoyorozu no Kami was practiced before Buddhism left Asia and was introduced to the rest of the world. Yaoyorozu is something that is feared and respected for what it gives and takes away. Have you ever thought about this belief in your life? Pottery is made by natural supplies, such as - fire, soil, stones, and ash. These are all natural benifits of nature. In Japan we have many events that we celebrate to express gratitude for these natural objects. As my work are made by natural objects. I believe that all things I make have their own life in them, they are not God or Buddha. I make my work toy like in a way that allows one to touch and feel so that the distance between the person and my work is shortened.

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Celebration
Yoko Sanagi
July 20 - July 25 2010
Yoko Sanagi was born in 1977 and grew up in Tokyo, Japan. After she had graduated from Tokyo University, desiring for something original to create, she began to paint pictures again as she liked in her childhood. She has found her style to paint images from inspiration, mainly by watercolor pigment that charms her by its transparency and beauty. Her artworks are featured by its bright and fantastic style, that make the best of color blots and grazes happened to come out. While using watercolor, she creates the texture similar to the Japanese-style painting, taking the technique of salt and stencil. Her main works are Illustrations on books and sales of artworks at on-line shop etc. She also participates in many domestic and foreign exhibitions. Her motto is to send people "Light" through her works, the theme of which is spirituality. "Light" means clear, peaceful balanced consciousness.

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STRONG SMILE
kennji
July 13 - July 18 2010
He was born in 1983.
He studied the design by himself.Afterwards, he joined the production company of the cellular phone contents.
He's participated in some exhibitions and He is acting as a painter now.

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DRAMATIC KITCHEN & Human Eyes
Maiko Akinobu a.k.a. PUMP-ME-UP
July 8 - July 11 2010
Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. Learned illustration and design at Kuwasawa Design School. A cook license holder and a gourmet, but eats little because of her weak stomach and intestines. Often draws illustrations with appetite as its themes from her big love for food. Doesn't mean always can draw illustrations looking "delicious" though. Also good at drawing with a taste of MANGA.

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Clay Dolls Exhibition "NAGOMI"
KIYO
May 25 - May 30 2010
Kiyo was born in 1944, during World War II, in a country town in Kyushu, the southern part of Japan. She created dolls made of cloth from an early age, and has loved dolls all her life. After she brought up her 3 children, she started learning to make clay dolls. She tries to send messages through her works. When she made a large statue of a prajna [a japanese traditional figure of Buddhism], she expressed her anger at the news of terrorism. when she made a small child doll, she commemorated her son who died at the age of four. Kiyo hopes that You will receive the messages of her dolls. She has put her experience as a dressmaker to use in the dolls. In all of her works, the accessories and clothes of the dolls are handmade. Especially, she spent much time on these objects, such as Japanese sandals, fans, shoes, hats. She hopes You wil enjoy the objects as well as dolls themselves.

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Flavor
Takeshi Sato a.k.a. GOSPEL
May 18 - May 23 2010
I”GOSPEL” became interested in drawing and painting since he was a child. In 1990, he moved to Tokyo alone in search of a better environment where he could keep drawing. He keeps searching for his own style as he teaches himself to get different types of skills. The characters, which he creates by using a variety of techniques, such as acrylic paint, airbrush, or spray, attract many people regardless of genre. And in Japanese Hip Hop culture which keeps developing in various ways, he keeps projecting a unique image in accordance with his first impulse.Because look-alikes become more and more common these days, his style of cherishing his real origin and his various works of not only live paint but also apparel, CD artwork and magazine coverare recognized and supported widely, not limited to just Hip Hop, among both major ground and underground.

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