JAN 2011: "A woman's work is never
done" Curated by SUSANNE ALTMANN, Jan 5 – Jan 30, 2011, Opening Reception: Jan 6, 2011
6-8PM with
Curatorial Talk at 5PM
@A.I.R. Gallery, 111 Front St., #228, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY Tel: 212.255.6651
JULY 2010: gThe
5h blue sky project exhibitionh July 31 – august 8,
2010 @ joetsu civic gallery, niigata, japan
June 2010: gWish you are
here 9h June 23 – July 18, 2010 @
A.i.r. gallery, ny
MARCH 2010: gcand sweeps me awayh: Curated by
Barbara OfBrien, March 3 - 28, 2010, Opening Reception: March 4, 2010 6-8PM with Curatorial Talk at 5PM
@A.I.R. Gallery, 111 Front St., #228, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY Tel: 212.255.6651
JULY 2009: gArt against the crisish July 3 - July 6, 2009 @ Galleria LfArte di
Anna Callegari, Molinella,
Italy
JunE 2009: gWish you are
here 8h June 24 – July 19, 2009 @
A.i.r. gallery, ny
FEB 2009: gEddies: New Installationh Solo Exhibition, Press release here. February
4, 2009 - March 1, 2009, Opening
Reception: February 5, 2009 6-8PM
@A.I.R. Gallery, 111 Front St., #228, Brooklyn, NY
Tel: 212.255.6651
JAN 2009: gContemporary Humanismh: Curated by Rocio
Aranda-Alvarado January 7, 2009 - February 1, 2009, Opening Reception: January 8, 2009, 6-8PM
@A.I.R. Gallery OPEN WED-SUN, 11AM-6PM, 111 Front Street, #228, DUMBO, Brooklyn NY 11201 Tel: 212.255.6651
2008-2010: gYour Documents Pleaseh: Curated by Daniel Georges and Rumiko Tsuda
Exhibition
Schedule:
April 4 - April 20, 2008 @The Museum of Arts & Crafts-ITAMI 2-5-28, Miyanomae,
Itami-shi Hyogo, JAPAN
Aug.
2, 2008 - Aug. 17, 2008 @ ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
Aug. 11 - Aug. 16 @ Galerie Paris, Yokohama, 1 block from ZAIM,
Japan (added to ZAIM space 1 week only)
Nov. 28, 2008 - Dec. 30, 2008 @ 2B Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
Jan. 9, 2009 - Feb. 1, 2009 @ Galerie Kurt im Hirsch, Berlin, Germany
Feb. 12, 2009 - Mar. 8, 2009 @ GALERIA Z - Bratislava, Slovakia
Apr. 17, 2009 - May 8, 2009 @ Galeria Ajolote Arte Contemporaneo, Guadalajara, Mexico
Further venues expected for 2009 and 2010
In
the exhibition, gEddies: New Installationh, Katsura Okada continues her work
with rice paper and brilliantly colored Sumi inks. Okada forms thin rolls of rice paper into long
flowing forms and delicate varying
bundles. In NY Arts Magazine, Erica Snow writes of her recent work: gThe works
c are evidence of Okada's expansion of line,
space and most importantly, color palette. Her markings vibrate with life, glimmer and dance off the
wall.h The color is derived from the artistfs process of dipping the identical rolls in brilliant dyes. The
subtle changes in color and tone are highly expressive and hold undulations of suggested motion.
Especially in her wall-hung installations, the notion of the openness of time is significant, as the rolls appear
to be countable objects and feel infinite in their expanse. The artist writes: "I draw my inspiration from
all experiences - happiness, sadness, anger, pain, beauty and ugliness are all influences on my work and mature
my mind, to be expressed perhaps ten years later.h
Katsura Okada was born in Tokyo,
Japan. She has lived and worked in New York since 2002. She graduated from the Tokyo Metropolitan
School of Arts and Music, attended Sohkei College of
Fine Arts and earned a Master of Japanese
Calligraphy Arts from the Tokyo Academy of Calligraphy Arts in 1992. Since 1990, her work has been shown in
numerous international and solo exhibitions in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Hungary, the
Netherlands, Slovenia, Slovakia, Japan,
Canada, Mexico and the United States. Recently she has shown at such venues as A.I.R.
Gallery in NYC, Black and White Gallery in Brooklyn,
Marymount Manhattan College Hewitt Gallery of Art and the
Museum
of Arts & Crafts-Itami in Japan. She received
first prize/grants from the Tokyo Metropolitan
Art
Museum, the Shoto Art Museum in Tokyo and the SoHo Art Competition in New York among others. Her publications included ARTspeak, Manhattan Arts, NY Arts Magazine, the Yomiuri
America news paper, LUXOS
MAGAZINE (Italy), IL NOTIZIARIO DELL' A.I.A.M. (Italy), Les Editions
Arts et Images du Monde (Paris), dfART
(Canada), and others.