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SES week 2 “The Moon & the Sun” Kanae Ito Solo Show & Live Music Performance

 

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The theme of this exhibition is a story of “The Moon & The Sun”.

The moon and the sun releases its own kind of light.

Based on the picture book Kanae Ito had written in her twenties,

a singer-songwriter, Akiko Segawa provided the music that plays along with the story.

Having been inspired by Akiko’s music, Kanae has further developed the story on a

piece of cloth.

“The Moon & the Sun” is the work that grew and matured over the decade.

Small live performances by Akiko Segawa will be held at the gallery.
Furthermore, we are pleased to invite a special guest, Hiroya Tsukamoto,
an active guitarist who is based in NY, to perform his guitar on Sunday, 21st of July.

Please enjoy Kanae Ito’s original world of Sewing Drawing with Music, and some fresh breeze from Japan.

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Date & Time: Friday, July 19 – Thursday, July 25, 2013 12:00pm ~ 8:00pm

(Except for; the 19th opens at 14:00 ~ , 25th closes at 18:00)

Special live performance:

With Akiko Segawa (Afternoons of July 19,20,23, and 24)

With Akiko Segawa & Hiroya Tsukamoto (Evening of July 21)

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Find out more about Kanae Ito’s biography and works, visit her facebook page.

Kanae Ito Works (https://www.facebook.com/KanaeItoWorks)

Artist Statement

~Sewing Drawing with Music~

Every intriguing thing that is born to this world stands on well contemplated concepts and aspirations. When we find these, its significance grows even more.

Yet, none of us spends our day paying close attention to these qualities.
What comes straight into our heart is simply the power that doesn’t require any words.

Music inspires me.

Songs, dances, and the sound of instruments…. The energy arising from the bottom of their bodies enfold me with tenderness, strength, and sometimes even sadness.

Let me be with music.
Let me create what echoes like music.

Kanae Ito

Born in 1973
She studied environmental design at Chiba University in Japan.
After graduation, she worked for a furniture company and at an upholstery.
While upholstering furniture and working as a designer’s assistant, Kanae started creating small interior accessories with recycled leather. She then began to create the items on a sewing machine.

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SES week 1 “SPIRIT JOURNEY” NORICO solo show

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NORICO / Artist, Healer, Musician   –   live and work in New York

Born in Japan, Norico is an artist, Kinesiology therapist ,Reiki teacher and musician.
She graduated from Fukuoka University of Education in Japan, where she started painting and moved to the U.S in 1990.

As a healer, she has taught Reiki and healed many people through Kinesiology method.
The work of the healing has also an impact on her paintings.

The each series of her “Fish” and “Bird”with unicursal figures was completed in 2003.
Norico’s works have focused on spiritual creatures,the deep-sea, forests and the universe afterward. The motifs of her paintings are dolphins, the moon, the sun,birds, fish, plants, lotuses, Ganesha-an Indian god, and Kodama-a spirit of forests-in Japanese.

She also has composed music and played it with her husband Osamu, a sound healer.
The world of her music is closely connected to her artwork as well.

Norico’s paintings are peaceful, and filled of joy and dreams, and also bring us a powerful spiritual awaking.

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Osamu Moriyama/ Musician, Sound healer

Osamu is a musician and a sound healer.
He Attended The Berklee Collage Of Music from ’93~’95
He plays improvisational music with multi-acoustic instrument that include Guitar, Native American Flute, Caxixi, Crystal Bowls, Djembe, Native American Drum,Gong,Etc…

Since 2010 Osamu has been playing offering music in the earth’s sacred and powerful sites such as Sedona, Mt Shasta,  Yucatan’s Mayan Ruines, Kauai Island,,, in order to give gratitude to the earth and to reconnect their essential energy into our being.

http://www.motherearthsound.com

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Opening Night photos… Live Performance by Osamu Moriyama.

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SUMMER EXHIBITION SERIES 2013 7/5 – 8/29

Up coming at AG Gallery is our signature summer event “Summer Exhibition Series 2013” which is including 7 week based exhibitions by artists from many different places mostly from Japan. We hope each week-long show with totally different media and theme will made your summer days in Williamsburg much more fun and inspirational.

SUMMER EXHIBITION SERIES 2013

WEEK:

  1. 7/5 ~ 7/18 | “SPIRIT JOURNEY”  NORICO solo exhibition (live music on 7/5 7pm~ by Osamu Moriyama)

  2. 7/19 ~ 25 | “The Moon & The Sun” Kanae Ito solo exhibition (live performance 7/19~24)

  3. 7/26 ~ 8/1 | Works from AG Gallery Artists

  4. 8/2 ~ 8 |  FRIEND NO MORE & LOVE NO MORE by UNARO

  5. 8/9 ~ 15 |  Group Exhibition : Naoko Saito, Shoko Kikuta, Kumiko Mizuno

  6. 8/16 ~ 22 |  “Power of the Earth” Yoko Takeuchi solo exhibition (photography)

  7. 8/23 ~ 29 |  “Anti-Glasswork Art 2013” Takao Sakata solo exhibition

New show opens on every friday night. We open 7 days a week this summer,  Noon – 8ish.

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installation view: TALES

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Current exhibition, “TALES” at AG Gallery.

You’re welcome to swing by anytime before June 30 though, also take an online gallery tour here.

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AG Gallery open 7 days a week: Noon – 8ish. Please come by and enjoy these art pieces anytime.

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New Exhibition “TALES” | Spring 2013

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Group Exhibition

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April 12 – June 30,  2013

Opening Reception |  Friday, April 12, 6 – 9 PM

On view at AG Gallery for the months of springtime is the work of four artists whose works are illustrating some scenes of their imaginary world and telling stories to us with a non-verbal expression – creation of art. Hope our friends and neighbors enjoy these art pieces and it reminds us the time when we loved picture books and fairy-tales in our childhood.

Sara Duarte | Andrea Lauren | Tracey Long | Christine Roussey

Opening reception will be held on Friday, April 12, 6 – 9 pm.

*Refreshments will be served. Come by if you are around.

AG Gallery/About Glamour is open seven days a week, from 12pm to 8pm. For more information and press photographs please contact Chiharu Aizawa at chiharu{at}aboutglamour{dot}net or (718) 599-3044.

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