Nakaochiai Gallery
Closes in 9 days
The Internet has given life to an intriguing snapshot of art across three different generations from three corners of the Pacific. The artists taking part in a new exhibition at the Nakaochiai Gallery (www.nakaochiaigallery.com) have never met each other or the gallery directors, who found them all on the Internet and brought them together for the show almost entirely via e-mail.
Now the "virtual reality" of the exhibition has taken on its physical form in the gallery space. Ted Pushinsky is a San Francisco-based photographer who for five decades has been documenting in black and white unforgettable encounters and moments of timeless theatricality on the streets of America and abroad. Akinori Shimodaira is a well-known illustrator whose rich, vibrant paintings draw you into the fantastical world of his imagination. Based in Tokyo, he is the only artist in this show to have visited the gallery space and met its directors. Eleanor Yap is an emerging graphic-design artist from Australia, who is showing for the first time. Her work is an accumulation of hundreds of intricate, abstract little forms which look hand-painted but have in fact been produced on a computer.
These multicolored forms are essential to the show's curation: they complement the aesthetic of Shimodaira's paintings, and yet, having been made by a machine, they also have conceptual connections with Pushinsky's photography.
