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Hello! - Hello Kitty 40th Anniversary
The Japanese American National Museum presents Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty, the first large-scale Hello Kitty museum retrospective in the United States. Organized as part of the global icon’s 40th-anniversary celebrations, the exhibition examines the colorful history of Hello Kitty and her influence on popular culture. Hello! includes an extensive product survey, with rare and unique items from the Sanrio archives, alongside a selection of innovative contemporary artworks inspired by Hello Kitty and her world. Hello! is curated by Christine Yano, PhD, author of Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific, and Jamie Rivadeneira, founder and owner of the Los Angeles pop culture boutique JapanLA.
- Dates: October 11, 2014 | April 26, 2015
- Venue: Japanese American National Museum
Scope Basel 2013
Thinkspace at SCOPE Basel 2013 showcasing mini-solo exhibits from: Audrey Kawasaki and Esao Andrews LOCATION: SCOPE BASEL Pavilion Uferstrasse 40 CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
- Dates: June 10, 2013 | June 16, 2013
- Venue: SCOPE BASEL Pavilion
LAX / HKG
Los Angeles based gallery Thinkspace has teamed up with Above Second Gallery in Hong Kong to present ‘LAX / HKG’. This special group exhibition has been curated by Thinkspace to help introduce our roster to Hong Kong. Featuring two new works each from the likes of Amy Sol, Audrey Kawasaki, Brian M. Viveros, Dabs Myla, Esao Andrews, Joao Ruas, Linnea Strid and Yosuke Ueno. The exhibition will run from November 16th until January 12th, 2013 with an opening scheduled for Friday, November 16th (6-10PM). Thinkspace is honored to be able to showcase the artists we work to support in the bustling city-state of Hong Kong, the epicenter of the Orient’s burgeoning art market. With this special exhibit we aim to shed light on the burgeoning New Contemporary Art Movement that was birthed in Los Angeles and continues to spread out the world over, gaining momentum and winning over new devotees at an astounding rate. With roots firmly planted in illustration, pop culture imagery, comics, street art and graffiti, put quite simply the New Contemporary Art Movement is art for the people. This exciting and challenging movement is showcased in ‘LAX / HKG’ via the works of 8 artists from around the world who create within a wide array of styles. Come discover your new favorite artist and find out why Thinkspace is regarded as one of the torch bearers of the New Contemporary Art Movement.
- Dates: November 16, 2012 | January 12, 2013
- Venue: Above Second Gallery
Midnight Reverie
Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to announce Midnight Reverie, a series of new works by highly celebrated Los Angeles-based artist Audrey Kawasaki, in what will be her second solo exhibition at the gallery. Kawasaki’s work conveys the subtle intrigue and mystique of feminine sensuality through contrasting themes of innocence and eroticism. She paints sultry, seductive female subjects posed provocatively and often gazing suggestively at the viewer. Their graceful gestures, delicate features and direct eye contact exudes a combination of melancholy and desire. Kawasaki creates finely detailed imagery by applying thin washes of oil paint onto wooden panels, accentuated by sharp organic lines drawn with control and precision, in graphite. The natural wood grain adds a warm glow to her enigmatic subject matter, complementing the curves and contours of the female form, flowing hair and floral adornments. Midnight Reverie marks a new direction in Kawasaki’s imagery, in that—for the first time—the works in this exhibition feature flat, graphic shapes, painted in layers of solid black acrylic. Incorporating these dark, crisp, bold elements adds a stark contrast with the soft, delicate quality of the artist’s signature female portraiture. Additionally, Kawasaki rendered her figures and their environments in this series with much more vibrant hues as compared to previous works in which she employed a subdued, muted color palette. The subject matter in this exhibition has a surreal, whimsical, dream-like tone. In the artist’s words: “Some of the pieces have windows, like passage-ways into another world, yet it can also feel like limbo or static—wanting to walk through to the other side, but not being able to. Others are deep in the make believe, magical, mystical realm. In these, the black parts represent a void, emptiness or the unknown, yet they can also be something real and solid, like holes or shadows.”
- Dates: September 8, 2012 | October 6, 2012
- Venue: Jonathan Levine Gallery
Inle
Who or what is INLE? In 1974, Richard Adam's wrote the beloved classic "Watership Down". It is a tale about overcoming the obstacles of life that try to beat you into submission and coming out on top, told through the unlikely embodiment of rabbits. Upon reading the book at a young age, one particular thread stood out to me. The story of "The Black Rabbit of Inle". It was on page 280 of this book that my Grandfather had gotten for me on a road trip that the story of Inle´ unfolds. The fear he induced in the rabbits who told tales of him is not much unlike our own fears of death and what is unknown. I always questioned was their fear based upon him or the inevitability of their own demise, and was it something to fear or welcome after a long life lived? With this book began my over 24 year obsession with using rabbits as a tool in my art. Upon relating my memories of this book with some artist friends of mine, I wasn't surprised to find they had similar attachments to the story and subsequent movie and that it too was a huge influence on their work. The question is asked over and over "what inspires you and your art?". Well here is one aspect, and In my attempt to keep this story alive and in honor of Richard Adam's timeless story we are proud to present "INLE". -Greg "Craola" Simkins
- Dates: March 11, 2011 | April 8, 2011
- Venue: Gallery 1988
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