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Published: March 13 2009

Chieko OSHIE "shower" (2008); watercolor on paper, 45.4 x 38.2cm copy right(c) Chieko OSHIE / Courtesy of Nishimura Gallery

Asae SOYA "Air-4" (2008); watercolor on paper, 38 x 56cm copy right(c) Asae SOYA / Courtesy of Nishimura Gallery

Nishimura Gallery is pleased to present "Drawings" from Tuesday April 7th to Saturday 9th. This time, we will show new drawings in addition to the earlier drawings by Chieko Oshie, Asae Soya besides Katsura Funakoshi, Takanobu Kobayashi, Kumi Machida, Atsuhiko Misawa, Kae Higuchi etc, who show their works regularly at Nishimura Gallery. Oshie joined Artist in Residence 2008 at Ohara Museum of Art. She stayed in an old atelier called Muison-sou, an atelier formally owned by Torajiro Kojima who is also an artist, for 3 months and drew in majestic nature. She tried to keep herself away from the outside world and sincerely faced the mountains and trees for a fixed period of time. As a result, she became more and more skilled at her art as in expressing fresh flowers and the atmosphere surrounding the space and objects. Oshie says it was a precious experience to step out of the atelier into the garden to draw real things, while feeling the existence of the trees. She says that it was as if to record the changes of the objects in front of her, due to the sunlight and shadows through out the day. This time, Oshie's 4 new drawings of mountains and trees including "shower" and "kodama" are on display. Furthermore, the "nude" series and some earlier drawings are also exhibited. The “nude series” were drawn while staying in Belgium by scholarship of Bureau of Cultural Properties, and the others are on American pokeweeds, drawn with oil pastels which were characteristic of her works at that time.

Asae Soya who asserts her individuality with delicate brushwork and in use of color shows "air" series on the subject of forests flooded with pellucid and comfortable atmosphere. This "air" series is a mural displayed from the ground floor to 6th floor of the Breeze Tower, Osaka, and it has delighted many people since it has first appeared. Katsura Funakoshi, the artist in the first line, exhibits new 3 drawings. He won Mainichi Art Award and The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Art Encouragement Prize in succession. For Kae Higuchi, this is the first exhibition of drawings. She gained public favor in her solo exhibition. In this exhibition, you can see new aspects of each artists and their valuable works.

* The text was provided by Nishimura Gallery.


Opened dates: April 7 - May 9, 2009

Last Updated on April 07 2009
 

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