Category: Galleries

Bye-Bye 2020 at the Launch Pad Gallery

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Several artists from the Art Byte Critique collective, including myself, will be in this year’s final show called Bye Bye 2020 at the Launch Pad Gallery from December 4-14.

私を含むアート・バイト・クリティーク・コレクティブの数名のアーティストが、12月4日から14日までLaunch Pad Galleryで開催される今年最後の展覧会「Bye Bye 2020」に参加することになりました。

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Par Art in the 30th Kyoto Art Festival 2016

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Par Art, a private gallery in a renovated machiya (old Japanese house made in the Kyoto style), has started participating in the Kyoto Art Festival in recent years. A few artists who exhibit in the main group are selected for a show here but unlike the Annex and Kokokan, artists can sell their work at Par Art. Wendy Carroll, Deborah Stout, Minoru Masuda, Erika Kusumoto, Tomoko Yokota, and Wataru Kawashima were the lucky artists this year.

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Kokoka in the 30th Kyoto Art Festival 2016

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Kokoka is the shorted form of Kokusai Koryu Kaikan, the Japanese name for the Kyoto City International Foundation. Since Kokoka is a municipal building, it is involved with the Kyoto Art festival and has become a venue where a handful of artists can be spotlighted in recent years.

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Textile and Paper at the 30th Kyoto Art Festival: International Exhibition of Art 2016

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The textile and paper artists tend not to create work that is as flashy as others, but nonetheless they are earning recognition every year at the annual International Exhibition of Art in the Annex of the Kyoto Municipal Art Museum. You might have to look carefully at its details to fully appreciate the artwork, but that extra time is usually worth it.

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Peek Inside: Serious Look at ACT

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I realized that one reason why I was slow in posting photographs of the Narrative Abstract Art show was that I was busy pondering many questions that I have about the place and the way they run things. Some of my opinions might not be popular ones, but I tried to be fair. I debated whether or not I should change names but I decided not to do so. Why? The place has potential and shows signs of willingness to learn and grow. I used specific names but I think these points could probably be applied to many galleries in Tokyo.

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