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Sep 02 2011
Exhibition

Collages

Maureen Shields Solo Exhibition

September 2 – October 30, 2011
Opening Night: Friday, September 2, 6 – 9 PM

Curated by Chiharu Aizawa

AG Gallery/About Glamour in Williamsburg is pleased to present a solo exhibition by a unique collage artist, Maureen Shields. We exhibited one of her signature media of artworks, collages on wood panels and on vintage dish plates on this show.

The intent of her work is twofold. First, she hopes to initially attract and ideally seduce, as well as engage the viewer with surface, color, and beautiful and interesting objects. The tone of her work is often at first glance innocent and cheerful. Second, what follows this initial reception of a playful, nearly saccharine veneer is a deeper invitation into a strangely constructed world. The viewer is caught between a delight in the fantastic and a sense of unease or menace. The animal motifs she employs in the work, often times emphasizes the idea of the animal kingdom rather than actual wildlife. Her art works to balance between the whimsical, the grotesque, and the commonplace. She hopes to skew perspective and she seeks to reintroduce the strangeness and complexity associated with childhood without projecting directly onto the specific.

her works on our silent auction.

Maureen Shields
Born in San Gabriel, CA.
2004 MFA at New York University
2000 BFA at California State University

She lives and works in San Francisco, CA. Her successful eight solo exhibitions were held in California and New York through 1994 to 2011. Her artworks also made appearance in various group exhibitions, mainly held in California. Her signature artworks are colleges on different materials such as wood panels and vintage plates.

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Aug 19 2011
Exhibition

The Anti-Glasswork Art 2011 in New York

SUMMER EXHIBITION SERIES 2011
Takao Sakata Solo Exhibition

August 19 – 24, 2011

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AG Gallery/About Glamour is pleased to announce that we are having a solo exhibition by Takao Sakata, Japan based glass-work artist, “The Anti-Glasswork Art 2011 in New York” from August 19th through 24th, as a part of the Summer Exhibition Series of Japanese Artists 2011.

“When we look at the glass-work art in these days, I can only see weak, cheap, and flatter works. They are called “modem grass art” or “the world grass art” and seen as if they are the real art. Glass artisans without strong belief and knowledge and the lack of outstanding glass-work art critics obstruct making progress of the art. The substantial of art is to express nature, society and human beings through clear sense and technic. It means the attribute of glass material doesn’t produce any arts. Marcel Duchamp, a French artist, signed that people in this century has been blind completely to the art. It is also the severe criticism to the modern glass art. ” —Takao Sakata

Takao Sakata
Live and work in Shiga, Japan
Graduated from Tokyo Glass Art Institute

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Aug 12 2011
Exhibition

SAMPLING PROCESS

SUMMER EXHIBITION SERIES 2011
RYO MIKAMI SOLO EXHIBITION

August 12 – 17, 2011

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AG Gallery is pleased to present “SAMPLING PROCESS”, the solo exhibition of Ryo Mikami. “SAMPLING PROCESS” featured live performance, using a Japanese comic and try to capture a true figure of sub consciousness.

Mikami chooses Japanese comics to capture subconscious by cutting and digging down according to outline of each frame of comics. He creates a silent and calm world that is closely overlapping of comics at the micro level.

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“In this work, I am literally “cutting frames”, which makes it no longer possible for readers to follow the story, and allows them to only see some meaningless pieces of drawings. In the limited objects to see, however, they may see struggles and personalities of the author, which appears when wondering how to make frames, especially in the pattern made by an “accident” of being put together after being cut into pieces. The pattern presents the subconscious of the author of the comic, subconscious of myself who cut them into pieces, and subconscious of viewers of the work. For example, musicians who improve music may make and stick to certain rules in order for them to create music without interruption of their playing habits and emotions. I tried the idea in “SAMPLING PROCESS”.” – Ryo Mikami

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Ryo Mikami
Born in Kawasaki City, Japan in 1983.
He grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. After he graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2008, he ended up finishing graduate School of Film and New Media Tokyo University of the Arts in March 2011.

Live Cutting Performance was held every day 4-8 during the exhibition.

Any questions? please contact at samplingprocess@gmail.com

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Aug 05 2011
Exhibition

Four Female Artists in New York

SUMMER EXHIBITION SERIES 2011

a group exhibition by Japanese female artists live and work in New York City.

August 5 – August 11, 2011

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Masako Tono, Illustrator
Born in Japan, currently lives in New York. She learned both illustration and print design in University of Central Oklahoma. To build her own creativity, she uses water-color and color pencils. At the same time, she often emphasizes and describes the dark power and gothic mystery throughout using paying attention to the colors black and white.


Kazumi Sakurai, Photographer
Pictures taking has been a lifelong experience for her. Her strong desire for photography, it was given by her father, who purchased a Nikon SF camera when she was born. After winning several awards and contests in Japan, she started her full-time career as a photographer at the age of 21. Her intimate style and skillful use of light fosters a deep connection between the viewer and the image, revealing a personal aesthetic that is reflective of the photographer as it is of the subject.


Mai Endo, Photographer
Born in Japan, currently lives in New York. Through her artwork, she designates a melting pot of architectural growth which goes unseen. She believes that all her work is a moment of essence captured in time which defines her and everyone’s life by the frame.


Noriko Miyawaki, Calligrapher
She has explored her experience in calligraphy since she was four years old. In the meantime, she has won various awards in Japan including her poetry and sketch works. She is one of the members of “Seiko Shodo” which exhibits at the Japanese consulate in New York.

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May 06 2011
Exhibition

ARTORONOMY

a group exhibition : images of outer-space

May 6 – June 26, 2011

AG Gallery in Williamsburg is pleased to present a group exhibition, “Artronomy” by six emerging artists Karen Fitzgerald, Daniel A Oliva, Christina LC Markin, Paula Overbay, Daniel Healey, and Bede Murphy. The exhibition will evoke dramatic feelings of the outer space and universe, using various mediums to portray the cosmic world.

Karen Fitzgerald was born in Wisconsin, and her works has been widely exhibited in the United States. She works in multiple layers on a round panel, producing a deep, rich, luminous surface.

Daniel A Oliva is an artist living and working in Philadelphia. His works are often distant images, with the use of paintings and photography. He also explores maps, geology, and climate science for his works as well.

Christina LC Markin born in Canada in 1975, Markin immigrated to Australia in 2004, and currently works from her Brunswick studio. She wishes her paintings to be unexpected, rather than reproducing what is already there.

Paula Overbay is a New York artist who presents colorist-style abstract paintings. Overbay explores simplicity and symbolism, and her work is mostly consisted of dots and lines.

Daniel Healey is an artist and curator from Oakland, CA. Alongside his own he pursues a group work called “DealeyDawkMutlip”, which is a 3 person collaboration with Michael Cutlip and Darren Hawk. Both of his group work and individual work will be displayed in Artronomy.

Bede Murphy has been making an endless variety of drawings, paintings, photos and books since 1992. He lives and works in Brooklyn, and is the Creative Director of a gallery in DUMBO.

 

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