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Jan Dickey, Himeka Murai, Miina Yamaguchi
We are pleased to announce a two-person exhibition by Himeka Murai and Jan Dickey in collaboration with Miina Yamaguchi titled "果てしのない" / "neverending" at the creative space "Muracekai" in Yoyogi Uehara, Tokyo.
New York City-based artists Himeka Murai and Jan Dickey enter into the neverending material flow of our modern world through the process of painting. Each artist’s work critically explores an interpenetration of the natural and the artificial within this flow. For Himeka this is most apparent between the natural materials she employs (dyes, flour, egg and paper) and the artificial hot glue she weaves through and clumps into them. For Jan a similar tension arises between the cracking, flowing movement of his earth-based paint and the artificial boundaries he imposes with the shape of the five-pointed star. The star is used in Jan’s work as a formal compositional device, but is also meant to evoke the American state and state identification more broadly.
This 2-person exhibition, moreover, includes a continuation of a special collaboration with their mutual friend: the Tokyo-based artist Miina Yamaguchi. Their initial collaboration was conducted live in Gallery Filmo just days before this exhibition (from January 9 through 11) at Gallery Filmo. Inside Gallery Filmo, the three artists collaboratively transformed individual paintings into diptychs during a marathon painting and drawing session. Miina has now been invited to perform a spatial drawing project in the exhibition space at Muracekai. The presence of Yamaguchi’s light and floating lines, now brought into the third dimension, further strengthens the connection between Jan and Himeka’s worlds. We hope the collaboration for Jan, Himeka, and Miina will be never-ending.
New York City-based artists Himeka Murai and Jan Dickey enter into the neverending material flow of our modern world through the process of painting. Each artist’s work critically explores an interpenetration of the natural and the artificial within this flow. For Himeka this is most apparent between the natural materials she employs (dyes, flour, egg and paper) and the artificial hot glue she weaves through and clumps into them. For Jan a similar tension arises between the cracking, flowing movement of his earth-based paint and the artificial boundaries he imposes with the shape of the five-pointed star. The star is used in Jan’s work as a formal compositional device, but is also meant to evoke the American state and state identification more broadly.
This 2-person exhibition, moreover, includes a continuation of a special collaboration with their mutual friend: the Tokyo-based artist Miina Yamaguchi. Their initial collaboration was conducted live in Gallery Filmo just days before this exhibition (from January 9 through 11) at Gallery Filmo. Inside Gallery Filmo, the three artists collaboratively transformed individual paintings into diptychs during a marathon painting and drawing session. Miina has now been invited to perform a spatial drawing project in the exhibition space at Muracekai. The presence of Yamaguchi’s light and floating lines, now brought into the third dimension, further strengthens the connection between Jan and Himeka’s worlds. We hope the collaboration for Jan, Himeka, and Miina will be never-ending.
Schedule | Jan 13 (Fri) 2023-Jan 20 (Fri) 2023 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Jan 14 (Sat) 2023 17:00 - 20:00 Miina Yamaguchi will hold a live performance of spatial drawing. | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Muracekai https://cekai.jp/  | ||||
| Location | 22-7 Motoyoyogi-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0062 | ||||
| Access | 5 minute walk from the North exit of Yoyogi-hachiman Station on the Odakyu Odawara line, 5 minute walk from the East exit of Yoyogi-uehara Station on the Odakyu Odawara or Chiyoda line. | ||||
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