May 2024 Opening Reception and Garden Party

11 May 2024 | 4–7pm | $10

Come join us at KinoSaito for the opening reception of our 3 new exhibitions and an outdoor installation: Kikuo Saito: Summer Song, Chie Fueki: Petal Storm Memory, NON Objectified, and Natsuki Takauji: The Heart of The Tree. Check out the art, then stop by our studios to meet and chat with our current Artists in Residence, Amy Pryor and Sean Devare. Refreshments will be served, with food provided by DoughNation.

KIKUO SAITO: SUMMER SONG

Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio

The paintings on display primarily focus on a period of 12 years in which Kikuo Saito returns again and again to the implied shape of an ellipse as a site to explore notational mark-making and dynamic color relationships. Four canvases share a similar composition in which small gestural brushstrokes follow the circumference of a large circle placed atop a monochrome color field. Two early tondos by Saito which have never before been exhibited inverse this composition, with squares revealing raw canvas placed within a round composition.

CHIE FUEKI: PETAL STORM MEMORY

Curated by David A. Ross

Fueki was born in 1973 in Yokohama, an ultra-modern industrial port that is a prime example of the high-tech rebuilding of Japan following the destruction of World War II. But at age three, her parents moved to São Paulo, Brazil, where her father worked with a Japanese-based global shipping company. It is hard to imagine two more profoundly different cultures than Brazil and Japan. As her mother was not allowed to work in Brazil, she raised Fueki in a very different culture, thousands of miles and culturally light-years away from Japan. So, except for brief visits, Fueki has never lived in Japan as an adult. After attending a Japanese elementary and middle school and an international high school in São Paulo, she moved north to the United States for college and graduate school. Fueki grew up feeling like an outsider in Brazil and then again in the U.S. Even though she was raised in a Japanese household, the cultural collisions she experienced at such an impressionable age enormously impacted her sense of self and left her with a sense of displacement and longing – untethered in her own floating world.

NON-OBJECTIFIED

Curated by Kathy Battista

NON-Objectified presents a dynamic group of works by female artists operating under the umbrella of abstraction. The show’s title is a play on the term ‘non-objective’ painting, coined by by Alexander Rodchenko in 1918. This movement was centered in Europe and created in reaction to centuries of figurative representation, as practiced and espoused in the academies. NON-Objectified is a riff on Rodchenko’s term, a double entendre exploring female artists’ resistance to the objectification of bodies. The show takes the form of a dialogue between works by a cross-generational, international group of artists selected for their varying approaches to abstraction, each variation invoking or involving the body in subtle ways.

Participating Artists:
Anne-Lise Coste, Jamie Diamond, Katy Dove, Klodin Erb, Clare Goodwin, Sherin Guirgis, Jeewi Lee, Servane Mary, Rachael Matthews, Pat Passlof, Suzanne Perlman, Brie Ruais, Ilana Savdie, Miriam Schapiro, Dee Shapiro, Jemima Stehli, Naama Tsabar, Lesley Vance, Camila Varon, Adam Whitecash, and Rachel Eulena Williams

NATSUKI TAKAUJI: THE HEART OF THE TREE

Natsuki Takauji was born in Japan and moved to NYC in 2008 to discover the city and herself as an artist. She works toward questions driven by her life experiences in Japan and as an immigrant in NYC; her primary artistic intention is to communicate individually or communally. Therefore, many of her works are interactive or participatory, installed in public spaces. She teaches Metal Sculpture and leads a public art program, Works in Public, at The Art Students League of New York in partnership with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation. She co-founded a non-profit arts organization, The Artist Gardener NYC to activate green spaces in the local communities through arts and educational programs.

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