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Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Knoxville, TN 37996-2410
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Exhibition:
Information about the Redefining the Multiple artists featured on the Ewing's Main Page:
Redefining the Multiple: Thirteen Japanese Printmakers
Dates: January 19 - March 1, 2012
- Lecture: January 19, 2012, 7:30 pm room 109 Art and Architecture Building
- Opening Reception: January 19, 2012. post lecture
Redefining The Multiple: 13 Japanese Printmakers features the work of Japanese artists with foundations and formal training in printmaking. Although each of the participating artists' personal work has transitioned over the years - and some is now more associated with other media - printmaking and the production of multiples remains at the core of their creative processes.
Of the participating artists, four make three-dimensional objects and installations, two paint with printmaking tools and techniques, three use digital photography and technology, and the others utilize traditional and recognizable printmaking techniques. Each artist will exhibit between three and five works.
This exhibition is designed for installation in a roughly 3500 sq. ft. space, however, it can be edited and/or hung salon-style to accommodate smaller exhibition venues.
Curators: Hideki Kimura, Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan; and Sam Yates, Director, Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
SHOJI MIYAMOTO
Born: 1988. Lives in Osaka
“I've been creating woodcut prints using traditional Japanese techniques, through which unique perspective casts some familiar objects in a new light. The focus of my work is foods such as sushi and fruit. We eat them without paying much attention to the colors or shapes, which in fact are very interesting when you observe them carefully. I desire to express such unrealized interest in my works.”
-Shoji Miyamoto
Shoji Miyamoto graduated from Osaka University of Arts’ Fine Arts department with a concentration in woodcuts. He has participated in group shows in Kyoto and Tokyo since 2008.
http://miyamotoshoji.mu-sashi.com/
ARATA NOJIMA
Born: 1982. Lives in Kyoto.
“People have seen nature, been impressed, and have continued drawing it for a long time. Landscape paintings by artists such as Monet, Cezanne, and Friedrich move us still. Now there is much visual information in daily life, so how can we express the pleasure at the sight of natural beauty? I try to find a new interpretation of the traditional landscape and reconsider how I see, view, feel, and draw nature.
For these works I visited Yakushima and spent some time in the primeval forest. I was separated from daily life, and felt that all my senses became more sensitive. I was moved by the air I felt on my skin, the sound as if the forest was breathing, and especially the light reflecting and floating -- all of which changed from moment to moment. My desire is to depict the experience and the light in the forest in a monotone of black on a copperplate print.”
-Arata Nojima
Arata Nojima attended the Royal College of Art in London and received his Masters in Fine Arts with a concentration in printmaking from Kyoto City University. He has been showing internationally since 2005 with solo shows in New York, Tokyo, Kyoto, Busan, and London.
NARUKI OSHIMA
Born: 1963. Lives in Kyoto.
“I think of a photographic expression which oscillates between concrete and abstract, meaning and non-meaning. The meaning of object is still existent, but it is fading away in the shades of colors. The sense of visual tactility, the feeling as if one would touch the images with retina, is getting more and more important than the color, the figure or the surface texture of the photographed object.”
“If you glance into a shop window unintentionally when walking down the street, at first you may not be able to distinguish what is in front of the glass and what is behind it. This is an unstable condition. It will normally be settled into stable perspective when we order it through recognition. In my work I try to prevent this ordering by capturing the condition of light just before we recognize what we are looking at through normal perspective. This leads to a photograph where the image is unstable and you cannot fix your viewpoint. I think it is here where a different condition from our daily world emerges.”
-Naruki Oshima
Naruki Oshima divides his living and working time between Germany and Japan. He has studied in both countries, participating in an Artist in Residence program in Dusseldorf and completing his Ph.D. in Fine Art at Kyoto City Art University. His art is in university, corporate, and municipal collections throughout Japan. http://www.naruki-oshima.org
CHIAKI SHUJI
Born: 1973. Lives in Kyoto.
“I create art works based on “the image of woman”. That is not easy to explain or define what it is concretely, it becomes rather abstract in a sense. I want to portray that “the universe exists inside of woman” which holds both bright and dark side. Viewers may find many decorative lines and colors in the details of my work. However it does not function merely to decorate the image, I hope these elements grow and transform into a big wave to cover the entire image.”
-Chiaki Shuji
Chiaki Shuji received her graduate degree in printmaking from Kyoto’s Seika University Department of Fine Arts and completed post-graduate studies in printmaking at Kyoto City University. She has had solo exhibitions in Montana, USA; Kyoto, Japan; Tokyo, Japan; Osaka, Japan; and Seoul, Korea. Chiaki’s work is in university and municipal collections in the United States, Japan, and Slovakia.
http://www.shujichiaki.com
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