(Painting and Photography)

Hiromart Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of The Selection: Group show, an exhibition of works (Paintings and Photography) by gallery artists.

The show features paintings by Yuka GOTO, a Tokyo-based painter and cartoonist, oil paintings by Sachie KASHIMA that her oil paintings was well-received at her debut show with us held this year, and paintings (with protrusions) by Alan VAN EVERY, and as for the photography, vintage prints by Michael MACIOCE who is known as a photographer for New York City downtown music and art scene, and images by Sebastian PIRAS who is an Italia-born New York City-based photographer and filmmaker.

The show will also contain new and unpublished works.

The show will be a good opportunity for viewers to simply see the artworks individually, and also we hope to reintroduce our artists and projects.

The Selection: Group show

December 10 - 21, 2014

January 7 - 18, 2015

Artist:                                       Yuka Goto (JPN), Sachie Kashima (JPN), Alan Van Every (USA)

                                                Michael Macioce (USA), Sebastian Piras (ITA)

Hours:                                      1 to 7 pm, Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays (and by appointment)

Born in Tokyo, in 1978. Graduated from the Musashino Art University, Painting, in 2002.

She won AX Manga newcomer award and Minami Shinbo award in 2000. In 2002, her painting is accepted for the choice prize. Her debut solo show was held in 2002.

She made a shutter mural and is attending many projects such as HETAUMA & Underground summit Japan/USA, Colombia coffee V.A.Cup Exhibition, Cow Parade project and so on. In 2006, she made a painting for the album cover of OO Telesa and their animation music-video. The following year, she also made paintings for the animation music-video of podo’s debut album. In 2007, she made and released Zines with New York-based artist Misaki Kawai: MIX JUICE-2007, Nijiiro Kousaten-2008.  In 2012, her solo-show was hosted at the Musashino Art University. 

She works as a cartoonist and currently she is writing the serial comic in a magazine AX. She is the author of comic book Seigitai (4 volumes), a painting book Tetsudou Gashu and a picture book Collection-san (writer: Hideo Furukawa, picture: Yuka Goto).

Sachie Kashima

Born in Saitama in 1979.

Graduated from the Musashino Art University, painting in 2002.

She has exhibited her works at group shows and solo-show since 2005.

She is a surreal painter with color composition.

Currently lives and works in Tokyo.

Alan Van Every

Born in Buffalo NY, went to the State University of New York College at Buffalo for his BFA and graduated in 1984.

In 1991 along with artist Katrin Jurati, he started and ran a nonprofit space there named Big Orbit Gallery, which still exists today. He was included in shows at the Albright-Knox, Burchfield Penney Art Center, David Anderson Gallery and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center while living in Buffalo. In 1994, Van Every moved to “the Bowery” in NYC.

He had a solo show at Deep Space Gallery in 1996 and Ahra Lee Gallery in 1998 in NYC and was included in several group shows at various venues. After living in NYC for 12 years, he was ready for change and moved to Seoul, Korea where he was invited as an artist in residence at The National Art Studio at Changdong, administered by The National Museum of Contemporary Art.

In 2008, he moved to Thailand and is currently residing in Bangkok.

Macioce has been practicing photography from his studio in Manhattan’s East Village since 1982. A graduate of School of Visual Arts, he began combining fine art and documentary photography of the downtown music and art scene, leading to over 5ǥŀalbum covers and culminating with the book LIGHT & DARK. From John Zorn to Matisyahu, he had the opportunity to photograph many artists from the Lower East Side culture at the beginning of their careers, also photographing Allen Ginsberg, Nancy Spero, Dennis Cooper, and hipster Punk bands of the time, Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth and so on, he had access to the fringe movements of the era.

In his early years, Macioce worked as a master printer and assistant for photographic book productions. He also worked with photographers Bob Adelman and John Loengard. In 1995, Macioce began photographing the Lubavitcher Jewish Community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn for the exhibition “Jewish Ritual” at Lincoln Center, NYC in 1996. This exhibit was part of John Zorn’s Radical Jewish Culture Festival. Beginning in 1994, Macioce began teaching at Parsons School of Design and has taught photography at The New School for Social Research and The School of Visual Arts.

In recent years, his Jewish Ritual, musician, and Lower East Side photography was part of the Radical Jewish Culture retrospective at The Jewish Museum for Art and History in Paris from April to July 2010, moreover he is selected as a featured photographer in the New York Photo Festival 2010 as part of Lou Reed’s “Night of Photography” in DUMBO, Macioce gave a lecture at St. Ann’s Warehouse on “Photographing Unseen New York.” In October 2010, his musician photographs were shown as part of a lecture on “Music and Photography in NYC” by Sean Cochrane curator of photography at The Museum of The City of New York. Lecture was at The George Eastman House International Museum for Film and Photography.

Italian-born, New York City-based artist who has exhibited his photography and film work internationally. Early on in his career, Piras was encouraged by Andy Warhol, whom he met through Robert Mapplethorpe, to focus on artists’ portraits. This led to his well-known series “Artists Exposed”, captivating portraits of known and emerging artists and heavy-hitters in the international arts scene, including Andy Warhol, Roy Liechtenstein, Richard Prince etc.  David Ross, former Director of the Whitney Museum, heralded Piras' photos as, " ...probing and extraordinarily beautiful portraits of artists... that ultimately produces winners at both ends of the camera." These photos have been published in two books: Artists Exposed and A Pocketful of Contemporary Artists Portraits, using images taken from 1986 till 2006.

Piras has directed and filmed several documentaries, including “Taylor Mead Unleashed”, which also featured the late Allen Ginsberg and Quentin Crisp, a short segment on Robert Wilsons installation of the Giorgio Armani exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, NYC. In 2011, he directed the short film “Art Depot” which was showcased at the Cannes Film Festival and was one of 10 out of 1800 shorts selected by the National Film Board of Canada for its Online Short Film Contest. Piras has done extensive work both in TV broadcasting and on feature films as a photographer, director and producer. Most recently, Piras directed and produced the short film Fog in 2012.

Images

Paintings:

‘Sampo’ (a walk) Yuka Goto

‘Fuyuyama’ (mountain in the winter) Sachie Kashima

‘Dark Surge On The Disc’ Alan Van Every

Photography:

‘Make Believe Ballroom’ Michael Macioce

‘Red Vegas’ Sebastian Piras

Please contact us for information and availability on the artworks: info(at)hiromartgallery.com

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