Mariko Oya + Nerhol + Reina Mikame

Yutaka Kikutake Gallery

Finished

Artists

Mariko Oya, Nerhol, Reina Mikame

The photographic works of Mariko Oya consist of selections from “Lumen de Lumine,” a series of photographs taken within a church that capture the external light lambently filtering through the stained-glass windows. As certain strands of light reflect and waver amidst the interior, others serve to softly illuminate the various entities of the church. Nerhol’s works featured in the exhibition have been selected from the series “01” and “Slicing the Onion,” respectively introduced last summer. In “01” the artists took a variety of widely distributed images from the Internet, and within them engraved the numbers of ‘0’ and ‘1,’ digits that are recognized as being both the minimum and maximum units in programming language. Reina Mikame’s paintings are created in a manner that appears to drift back and forth between opposite ends of the spectrum of the abstract and the objective. Familiar elements that exist within the artist’s surroundings, the artist’s experiences, and the various phenomena that emerge around the artist are conveyed through means of a harmonious balance between the paint and the brushstrokes.

Schedule

Jan 10 (Sun) 2016-Feb 13 (Sat) 2016