Eleen Lin

                       Henry Minata                                                                                                                                                  Akemi Takeda

April 12th – May 2nd, 2013

“Anekawa’s works demonstrate a curious combination of the ability to immerse the viewer into her wonder-world,

but also render them as mere objective perceivers at the same time. The visual tension within her works lends her images a distinctive power.”

“Her compositional perfection shows she is working in the Nihon-ga tradition,

yet her attempt at abstraction also show her attempt of violently breaking away from preconceived notions of art. Anekawa wishes to explore the combination of tradition and the rejection of tradition in her future works as well.”

—Erin.K

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Opening Reception: 4/12 (Fri) 7:00 – 9:00 pm

 

Featuring:
Live painting by Mieko Anekawa with performance by Hito+(plus) & Water Brain
Collaborative art installation with Ikebana artist, Akiyo Sano (Akiyo’s comment for the collaboration)

 

 

 

 

 

Mieko Anekawa:

Mieko Anekawa studied Graphic communication design in Kyoto, Japan. She moved to New York in 2004 and has become involved in various art and design fields. Her art has been in galleries in Chelsea, Tribeca, the Meatpacking District, Queens, and Brooklyn, and she has had international exhibitions in Canada, Amsterdam, Belgium, UK, Osaka, and Tokyo. Mieko’s art has been reviewed as “contemporary, surrealism style that has somewhat of a pop art sense, a bold abstracted graphic quality.”  Mieko resides in Astoria and paints for work and pleasure. Her artwork combines a number of influences, including fashion, nature, female expression, Japanese culture and NYC life.

Web: http://miekomieko.com/

 

 

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Alex White-Mazzarella Exhibition — ”WASTED”

3/15 (Fri) — 4/4 (Thu)

Opening Reception: 3/15 (Fri)   7:00-9:00pm at RESOBOX Gallery

Resobox Gallery proudly presents political works from Alex White Mazzarella, artist and
Founder of global social art initiative Artefacting. A collection of 17 mixed media paintings and a short video explore WASTED as a landscape, way of life, and social condition.

Large canvases collage lottery tickets, food packaging, and images of nature with colorful paint and pastel to create stories. Portraits of oil drums convert waste into aesthetic loot. Shadow populations are surveyed behind bars and people combine with abandoned rubber tires in metamorphosis. And in the 2011 performance video “Computer Man” the consumer awakes in a far distant land to discover the world that processes and recycles his composition.

The work was created during residencies in Brooklyn, Mumbai and Detroit.

Exhibition visitors will be able to define WASTED for themselves and later see the artist turn the
discourse into a collaborative artwork.

What is wasted? What is not wasted? What can’t be wasted? Why do we get wasted?

 Civic. Mental. Material

WASTED In Context

I’ve been staring at this computer screen for days but now, finally, I can go out and get WASTED

Nearly $6 billion spent for the 2012 presidential campaign. Economic production or WASTED

Our Global cities and their material incarnations swell and multiply. But how fast can we run to avoid getting WASTED

The Kyoto Protocol. A chance to curb climate change WASTED?

The waste management facility in Long Island City is expanding to process up to 2,100 tons of waste a day. WASTED

Alex White Mazzarella

Born in Boston, USA in 1979, a lifelong artist, he graduated university with degrees in economics and city planning before setting off to Barcelona and consequently Hong Kong to shape his art within the realms of street art and contemporary urban culture. Nurtured by Larry Poons, Phillip Sherrod and Hug Bastidas of the Art Students League, he has been exhibiting his paintings and artwork in New York and abroad since being discovered by Richard Temperio of the Sideshow Gallery. His work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art and India Design Forum.

His 2010 work “Beehive” is in the private collection of the Coimbatore Centre for Contemporary Art (CoCCA) and his work has been featured by likes of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Time Out. He founded Artefacting in 2010 as a global social arts initiative dedicated to stimulating community cohesion, dialogue and social justice.

He sparked Artefacting as a practice of creating art with diverse communities and audiences worldwide as a tool to bridge differences, open perspective, and manifest cultural undercurrents.

Web:http://www.lamazza.com/

Alex White-Mazzarella Exhibition — ”WASTED”

3/15 (Fri) — 4/4 (Thu)

Opening Reception: 3/15 (Fri)   7:00-9:00pm at RESOBOX Gallery

Resobox Gallery proudly presents political works from Alex White Mazzarella, artist and
Founder of global social art initiative Artefacting. A collection of 17 mixed media paintings and a short video explore WASTED as a landscape, way of life, and social condition.

Large canvases collage lottery tickets, food packaging, and images of nature with colorful paint and pastel to create stories. Portraits of oil drums convert waste into aesthetic loot. Shadow populations are surveyed behind bars and people combine with abandoned rubber tires in metamorphosis. And in the 2011 performance video “Computer Man” the consumer awakes in a far distant land to discover the world that processes and recycles his composition.

The work was created during residencies in Brooklyn, Mumbai and Detroit.

Exhibition visitors will be able to define WASTED for themselves and later see the artist turn the
discourse into a collaborative artwork.

What is wasted? What is not wasted? What can’t be wasted? Why do we get wasted?

 Civic. Mental. Material

WASTED In Context

I’ve been staring at this computer screen for days but now, finally, I can go out and get WASTED

Nearly $6 billion spent for the 2012 presidential campaign. Economic production or WASTED

Our Global cities and their material incarnations swell and multiply. But how fast can we run to avoid getting WASTED

The Kyoto Protocol. A chance to curb climate change WASTED?

The waste management facility in Long Island City is expanding to process up to 2,100 tons of waste a day. WASTED

Alex White Mazzarella

Born in Boston, USA in 1979, a lifelong artist, he graduated university with degrees in economics and city planning before setting off to Barcelona and consequently Hong Kong to shape his art within the realms of street art and contemporary urban culture. Nurtured by Larry Poons, Phillip Sherrod and Hug Bastidas of the Art Students League, he has been exhibiting his paintings and artwork in New York and abroad since being discovered by Richard Temperio of the Sideshow Gallery. His work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art and India Design Forum.

His 2010 work “Beehive” is in the private collection of the Coimbatore Centre for Contemporary Art (CoCCA) and his work has been featured by likes of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Time Out. He founded Artefacting in 2010 as a global social arts initiative dedicated to stimulating community cohesion, dialogue and social justice.

He sparked Artefacting as a practice of creating art with diverse communities and audiences worldwide as a tool to bridge differences, open perspective, and manifest cultural undercurrents.

Web:http://www.lamazza.com/

An Elegant Rustling of Silk

The sensuality of fabrics is one thing that photographs, especially early photographs, cannot
totally reveal. This sumptuousness — the elegant look and feel of fine silk — was, and still
is, one essential part of that sense of “mysterious cool” that is so admired. We can look at
fabrics from the Taisho era in the form of kimono that belonged to an elegant lady. This is
a totally different kind of fashion show. Rather than dwelling on the seasons, or on types of
kimono, thanks to the generosity of the Asano Collection, we will go back to a time when
the only synthetic fabric, rayon, was a novelty.

About Washi Dolls:

Washi is the light, strong traditional Japanese paper made by hand from plant fibers. The word washi literally means “Japanese paper”. Today most paper in Japan is made in large automated mills, but a few hundred families in rural villages continue to make washi by hand in the traditional manner.
In this exhibition, the washi was formed into ningyo or dolls by a master artist about 30 years ago. These are not just any dolls, though. Each doll in the exhibition represents a Kabuki play or dance-drama. We’ll take a look at these extraordinary dolls, their costumes, and the Kabuki plays they represent.

February 4 (mon)– February 17 (sun)

Special lecture by Helen E. Moss   –Feb 14,  7:00PM

Free Admission

Lecture by Helen E. Moss

Helen Moss(Fujima Nishiki-no 藤間錦乃) teaches and performs Japanese classical dance in the elegant Soke Fujima style.
As a “spokesdancer,” she has given workshops and lecture /demonstrations to introduce people of all ages to the beauty of dance and Japanese culture throughout the New York area, recently leading an artist-in-residency series of workshops at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania.

Ms. Moss writes and performs concert narration explaining the dances to increase the audience’s understanding and enjoyment. A classically-trained violinist/violist, she has a unique approach to teaching Japanese dance musically to non-Japanese students, enabling them to better interpret the dance.

Ms. Moss is the founding Secretary and one of the instructors with IchiFuji-kai Dance Association, a multicultural non-profit organization representing the Soke Fujima style in the greater New York City area.

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2/22 – 3/6 2013

Opening Reception: Febuary 22th at 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

It was my terror and entertainment that are made with the various shapes, their movements and the three colors of lights.

That day, March 11th 2011, I was not there when the earthquake hit Japan. I was here in New York, far away from my home country. The scenes of tsunami waves swallowing the towns of Tohoku and Eastern Kantou were broadcasted on American News channels. It was as if I was watching one of the Hollywood disaster movies. There was no difference that I could see from actors and the news reporters. The cars were like toys. The true tragedy seemed to have a face of entertainment. The sublime power of the chaos was taking over what people there had built, the order. I was fascinated with the overwhelming abstractions and assemblage with various materials, wondering how many RGB lights on the large TV-flat screen. What information or emotion did each light convey?

About the Artist:

Satoshi Tsuchiyama

After 20 years of the first chapter of his life in Japan, Tsuchiyama decided to move to the U.S. He learned Visual Studies at SUNY University at Buffalo and completed a certificate program at International Center of Photography. His art is a hybrid of photography, video and installation that explores the notion of uncanny and absurdity in the urban dystopian situation. Currently, he lives and works in New York.

www.satoshitsuchiyama.com

Technical Superviser:

Taezoo Park

A Brooklyn based interactive media artist and designer, recently graduated with an M.F.A. in Pratt’s Digital Arts program. Specialties include developing interactive media; creating engaging UXs by taking user experiences into social and cultural contexts.