 |
 |
|
 |
|||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
| EXHIBITION | PAST EXHIBITIONS | FUTURE EXHIBITIONS | |
 |
Ai Ohkawara is a young contemporary artist who tries to express inherent spiritual nature. By converting Japanese style painting to contemporary art, she has made her form one that brings thoughts concerning the feeling of loss and fear with colors of exquisite balance and lines that are delicate to the point of being pathetic as well as lines that are bold. To find all of these necessary conditions, she climbs into the inner side of not just herself but the inner side of humanity. While she puts her focus on the fragileness and delicacy of those people who have experienced trauma, madness, loneliness, and emotional injuries, I suppose that I’m not the only one who feels that from somewhere comes a thread of light and in the same way there is something strong radiating from her work. Is this the existence of humankind? In recent years, she has been to New York. She has been inspired by New York to become provoked, transformed, and evolved. Perhaps we can see the way this 28 year-old artist has been evolved at this exhibition. From the drawings on Japanese paper to the new works made with oil paint and enamel, it will be fun to see where Ai Ohkawara’s work will end up. |
| Photographer / Junichi Takahashi |
|
|
|
|
| Grope in the Dark -01 | Double Bind | Grope in the Dark -03 | in or out -15 |
F50 mixed media on canvas (oil, enamel) |
F120 mixed media on canvas (oil, enamel) |
P50 mixed media on canvas (oil, enamel) |
F6 mixed media on canvas (dye, conté, acrylic, color tights, etc.) |
|
|
|
|
| in or out -12 | Parasite | Grope in the Dark -02 | life is painful, yet hopeful 01 |
F6 mixed media on canvas (dye, conté, acrylic, color tights, etc.) |
P100 mixed media on canvas (dye, oil) |
F50 mixed media on canvas (oil, enamel) |
37.9 x 28.8 cm (panel size) charcoal pencil, pastel, acrylic on old book page |
 |
| AI OHKAWARA SOLO EXHIBITION 2008 is being held at the 10th floor gallery at Takashimaya Shinjuku Store from February 27 to March 11. |
| Ai Ohkawara |
| 2004 | MFA in Japanese Painting, Musashino College of Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2002 | BFA in Japanese Painting, Musashino College of Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| Selected Exhibitions |
| 2007 | "Foreplay" Monkdogs Urban Art Gallery, New York |
| "Jump" Henry Gregg Gallery, New York | |
| "Memorial Exhibition / Shimpei Matsuo no Sekai" A collaboration between Ai Ohkawara and potter Shimpei Matsuo, Tamagawa Takashimaya, Tokyo | |
| Gallery Ju-ichi gatsu, Tokyo (2002-2007) | |
| 2006 | "Foreplay--Art of Stimulation" Monkdogs Urban Art Gallery, New York |
| Tokyo Wonder Wall 2006, Tokyo Metropolitan Contemporary Art Museum | |
| 2005 | 1st Art Digging Show, Japan Center Kinokuniya Bldg, San Francisco, California |
| 2004 | Featured in the "Newcomers of 2004 Large Picture Book -- Newcomers Chosen by the Editorial Staff" article in the April '04 edition of magazine "Gekkanbijutsu No Mado" |
| 2003 | TAMA de Art 2003 |
| The 12th Sato International Cultural Foundation Scholarship Artists Exhibition, The Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo | |
| 2002 | The 1st Sato Taisei Prize Art Exhibition |
| The 16th Aogaki Japanese Painting Exhibition |
| Ai Ohkawara has had many other exhibitions in Japan and New York that are not listed here. |
| | EXHIBITION | PAST EXHIBITIONS | FUTURE EXHIBITIONS | |  |
 |
 |
 |
| PRIVACY POLICY | |