Exhibition | AG Gallery

Nov 30 2014

Exhibition

Nobody Wants to Miss The Most Exciting Exhibition of The Year!

The Show has Successfully Opened on November 28, and we are already having many visitors. Before your favorite art piece is bought and gone forever, I recommend all art lovers there to make sure to visit the gallery earlier.

There is a reception on December 12, 2014 (2nd Friday) at evening.

We will keep update for the reception detail, but for now please keep in mind the date and try to keep the evening open to meet some of our lovely artists.

Meanwhile, more art works are coming in weekly, so come visit as often as you like!

Hozue by Noriko Tatsumi

Tagged About Glamour, AG Gallery, AIB 2014, Art in Boxes, Art in Boxes 2014, Exhibition, painting, Sculptre

Sep 08 2014

Exhibition

Pick Up: Homare, Sam and more

AG Gallery proudly presents recently joined artists from Japan, HOMARE with his collection of works titled “Phenomenon of Love”, and SAM with her picture book of a curios hedgehog.

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HOMARE (b. 1989, Japan) Live and Work in Aichi, Japan.

He has been participating exhibitions at many region in Japan since 2005. This is his very first appearance outside of Japan.

“We are full and perfect from before birth. We know everything. Everything is one and united. The world is filled with happiness and love.” – HOMARE

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SAM (b.1985, Japan) Live and Work in Kyoto, Japan.

“CoLoR” is her first picture book published in October 2013. It’s a story about a hedgehog which curious about colors other people have but he doesn’t. It tells us there are tons of different answers for a single question and various ways to live.

Picture book “CoLoR” available for purchase at AG Gallery limited time only.

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One of the most favorite ceramic pottery artists at our space, Hanako Sakashita who live and work in Mashiko, Japan, just sent us her latest works. Only limited number of works available.

AG Gallery continuously add more works and new artists. Come in and check them out at our space.

We open 7 days a week, Noon to 8ish

Tagged Art, artist, ceramic, Exhibition, Hanako Sakashita, Homare, japan, Japanese, pick up, picture book, pottery, Sam

Aug 02 2014

Exhibition, News

”ANTI-GLASSWORKS 2014″ TAKAO SAKATA NEW INSTALLATION on view 8/22~29

Takao Sakata, who has been keep having annual installation at AG Gallery for over 3 years, has a long career as glass-work artist live and work in Shiga, Japan. He would like to introduce, not only audience also other glass-work artists in the world, the new era of glass-work art which must be created from a strong passion to breakthrough the conventionality of current “glass art”.

This is his fourth year of appearance in annual summer installation at AG Gallery. He also preys repose of victims’ souls of the Tohoku Earthquake on March 11, 2011 in the works, “KUKAI NO HOTORI (On the bank of suffering)”.

Artist Statement

“When we look at the glass-work art in nowadays, I can only see weak, cheap, and flatter works. They are called “the modern glass art” or “the world glass art” and seen as if they are the real art. Glass artisans without strong belief or knowledge and the lack of outstanding glass-work art critics abstract making progress of the art. The substantial of art is to express nature, society and human being through clear senses and techniques. It means the attribute of glass material doesn’t produce any arts. Marcel Duchamp signed that people in this century had been completely blind to the art. It is also the severe criticism to “the modern glass-work art.”

Artists accused a falsehood of an era with their insanity that is inherent in themselves, which is a reason why many Western artists have been respected. Those artists risked their lives through their representations. Social value of artists does not change at any time; artists are useless all the time.

Young artists should think carefully. Artists are the ones who decide to gaze live and death; memento mori, in all creations universally. You must not rely on what critics think about your works. In solitude, you have to let time pass. You should not let representations calm and rip off this century. “

—Takao Sakata

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

The annual gallery installation “Anti-Glassworks 2014” is on view from August 22 through August 28, 2014. AG Gallery opens everyday from 12pm to 8pm during the show period.

Tagged anti-glass works, Exhibition, glass, installation, solo exhibition, summer exhibition, Takao Sakata, wood

Mar 17 2012

Exhibition

ONE HUNDRED DAYS OF WINTER

New Exhibition by Rachelle Tolwin

March 31 – April 29, 2012
Opening Reception: March 31, 6 – 9PM

For Immediate Release

AG Gallery/About Glamour in Williamsburg is pleased to present a solo exhibition, “One Hundred Days of Winter,” by Rachelle Tolwin. All the works are from her project in this winter which is the document of her daily creation process on a mountain days.

Rachelle Tolwin’s tumblr blog description reads: “this will be my first winter living on a mountain in the Catskill mountain state park. I plan to document each day of the winter with art that I made that day. Some days may be really cold. Some days there may be no internet access. I will still make something regardless of the conditions and post it when I am connected to the world-wide web and all of you.”

Rachelle moved to a remote area of the Catskill Mountains with her husband, Chaim, last Summer from Brooklyn. She looked to the Winter as a time to reflect and focus on art and decided to start http://www.onehundreddaysofwinter.tumblr.com. Her daily artwork chronicles this time through playful, introspective work clearly inspired by her new surroundings and connection with nature. Most of the work in one hundred days of winter is on paper, with gouache, watercolor and collage. There are a few photographs that help situate her setting. The title of the show may suggest images of snow and a white landscape, but these types of images do not dominate the show. One reason may be there was not as much snow as expected this year. Most of the works are colorful and reflect the inward and outward journey Rachelle experienced. The work in this show presents a mystical, whimsical landscape that Rachelle lives in or imagines.

Rachelle Tolwin

Rachelle Tolwin lives and works in Sundown, NY, a small hamlet in the Catskill Mountains. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts and her BS from New York University. She enjoys making imagined landscapes on paper and has shown her work nationally and internationally. Her work can be viewed at rachellecohen.com.

The opening reception for “One Hundred Days of Winter” will be held on Saturday, March 31 at AG Gallery from 6 to 9 p.m. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, April 29, 2012.

Check details about Opening Reception at Facebook event page.

Contact/Appointment:
Chiharu Aizawa
AG Gallery/About Glamour
chiharu@aboutglamour.net

Tagged Art, Exhibition, illustration, nature, press release, Rachelle Tolwin, solo exhibition