OUCHI GALLERY : Japanese Art Gallery Brooklyn, New York


	Feb 7 Tue - Feb 12 Sun 2011 "Fragments" Yuki Ioroi Opening Reception: Installation Event Feb 7 Tue 7-10pm		Yuki Ioroi Yuki Ioroi was born in 1980, Shizuoka Japan. She started her career as an artist when she moved to Los Angeles in 2001, and participated in local artist showcase events throughout the two years. Her style of pieces was mostly abstract in these years. After returning to Japan, Yuki moved to Tokyo and graduated from Asagaya Art College, School of Image Creation in 2007. She started creating painting pieces that incorporated words of her messages, shifting from the previous abstract style. Yuki creates pieces that speak to the mind of people who have lost themselves in today’s overwhelming world. Being force fed with information from every possible direction, it is easy for any of us to lose our own values, or feel threatened to live up to the unrealistic standards portrayed by the media and social peers alike. Her words directly reach out to those who have convinced themselves of their created identities as their true selves. The recurrent concept of her artwork is to offer an opportunity for the audience to look within themselves and reflect. Through her thoughtful and playful words, Yuki wants her audience to dig deep to their conscious and find that something they might have forgotten while busy living. In 2011, she moved to London and continuing her career and actively participating local exhibitions. http://yukiioroi.jimdo.com/


	Feb 14 Tue - Feb 19 Sun 2011 "fragment memories" Chie Fujii		Chie Fujii Chie Fujii was reared in Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan. She holds a masters degree in sculpture from Tokyo University of the Arts. After graduating Chie worked in the product industry in Tokyo for 6 years as a 3D modeling and 3D scanning artist ,which create digital models from scan data to replicate existing real-world objects or from 2D only concepts. This professional experience, creating actual three-dimensional models from 3D software, has influenced her current work where she creates sculpture, not only by hand, but with computer 3D software. Her work explores themes of the mind, reality vs. fantasy and what makes up the human body. In her thought and work, memory forms the boundary between reality and fantasy, also between herself and others. (see more details statement) Chie lives and works in Los Angles and New York, working as a sculptural artist. http://solido.jp/2018475/STATEMENT