Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Exhibition "A woman’s work is never done" Curated by Susanne Altmann

An Exhibit by The National and International Artists of A.I.R. Gallery
"A woman’s work is never done"
Curated by SUSANNE ALTMANN
January 5 – January 30, 2011 
Gallery hours: Wed – Sun, 11 am – 6 pm
Opening reception: Thursday, January 6th, 6 pm – 8:30 pm
with Curatorial Talk at 5 pm.

The Reference from the curater's essay below:
"In the same vein, Katsura Okada composes her minimalist yet colourful wall structures in deliberate repetitions. Made of small rolls of rice paper, the works reveal Okada’s roots in Japanese visual culture and its contemplative qualities. Yet her rhythmic arrangements also evoke synaesthetic experiences and make us “feel the sound” of a piece with our eyes."

Susanne Altmann, curator
Susanne Altmann is an art historian, art critic and independent curator based in Dresden, Germany. She studied art history and philosophy in Dresden and at the New School for Social Research in New York City. She has curated two site-specific installations of Nancy Spero and Leon Golub in Dresden, and worked in the curatorial department at Dia Center for the Arts here in New York.
In 2004 she received the Reuters Research Fellowship at Oxford University for her research in Eastern European art. Ms. Altmann has written and lectured widely on visual arts in the post-communist countries as well as on feminist art in the US and abroad. Her recent shows include “The Drawing Biennal” at the Momentumhall Moss (Norway 2010), “East German artists’ books from the 1980s” (Neues Museum, Nuremberg 2010) and “Have I not amused you brilliantly? Female subversions in the art of the late GDR” (Dresden 2010, Kunsthalle Mannheim 2011).

Please join us for Susanne Altmann’s related lecture/film screening:
“Have I not amused you brilliantly? Female subversions in the art of the late GDR”
Friday, January 7, 2011, 7 p.m. admission is free
Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building
5 East 3rd Street (at Bowery)
New York, NY 10003

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Friday, November 19, 2010

"Your Documents Please" Closing Reception Sunday, Nov. 21, 3-6pm

"Your Documents Please" Exhibition
Closing Reception Sunday, Nov. 21, 3-6pm

Nov. 3 - Nov. 21, 2010 Hours: Wed. - Sun. 12 to 6 pm
at Alma in Manhattan - hosted by Fine Light Inc.
601 West 26th St.(between 11th Ave and West Side Hwy)
8th Floor #835 (same corridor as Hugo Boss)

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

"Your Documents Please"

"Your Documents Please" comes to NYC at last, opening Wednesday Nov. 3, 2010 in Chelsea, 601 West 26th St. 8th floor.

"Your Documents Please"
Nov. 3 - Nov. 21, 2010

Hours Wed. - Sun. 12 to 6pm

Reception
Wednesday Nov. 3, 6 to 9 pm

Location
Alma in Manhattan - hosted by Fine Light Inc.
601 West 26th St. 8th Floor
(between 11th Ave and West Side Hwy)

The exhibition, “Your Documents Please,” reflects issues of identity and its documentation.
We asked participants to make an artwork about the size of a passport or smaller that functions visually or conceptually as if it were an identification document. “Documents” by more than 270 artists living in 26 countries are included.
The exhibition opened at the Museum of Arts and Crafts– Itami, Japan, in April 2008 and has travelled to alternative spaces including ZAIM artspace–Yokohama, 2B Gallery–Budapest, Galerie Kurt im Hirsch–Berlin, Z Gallery–Bratislava, and Galería Ajolote Arte Contemporáneo–Guadalajara. It is now scheduled for NYC in November 2010.

Organized by Daniel Georges and Rumi Tsuda with
Alma on Dobbin, an international arts exchange organization based in Brooklyn, NY
http://almaondobbin.org/
Special thanks to Stanley Piesh, Bill Fleischer, Andras Borocz and Robbin Silverberg exhibition in NYC is made possible by
Fine Light Inc. Advertising
Prime Manhattan Realty
Bernard Fleischer & Sons, Inc. Insurance

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

"Your Art Here" by H&M online art contest!!!

Now my art piece is on "Your Art Here" by H&M online art contest by 12:01 AM EST on October 15, 2010.
Please let me ask you to visit the site and vote for my art piece. Theme is New York City!

The vote is very easy that you click on the five star one time on at the website below:

http://www.yourarthere.com/entry/the-sky-of-the-adventure/

The winner will be selected from the top 10 vote-getting artists as voted on at the website.

Please do send it to your friends and family who maybe interested.

I would truly appreciated in advance for your warm support.

Kind regards,
Katsura Okada

Sunday, September 19, 2010

"Your Art Here" online art contest in New York City

Please visit the site and vote for my art piece:

http://www.yourarthere.com/entry/the-sky-of-the-adventure/

My work on the "Your Art Here" online art contest vote via Facebook.

Theme is New York City!!!

The online contest by 12:01 AM EST on October 15, 2010!

The winning artist’s work in the window of the H&M store located at 42nd Street and 5th Avenue in New York City.

Thank you for your warm support!!!  : )


Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Traveling Exhibition @ Imai Museum of Art

Over 1000 visitors came to see "The 5th Blue Sky Project Exhibition" at Civic Gallery, Niigata, Japan from July 31, 2010- August 8, 2010. The exhibition will be traveling to exhibit at Imai Museum of Art.

Traveling Exhibition @ Imai Museum of Art
Date: August 20, 2010 - August 29, 2010
Address: Imai Museum of Art, 2-8-8, Gakkou-Machi, Mitsuke City, Niigata, Japan

Please come to see the show and join Yoko Ono & the projector's "Imagine PEACE Oriduru project"!
Think PEACE! Act PEACE!! Spread PEACE!!!

Niigata Town Info Magazine July issue 2010

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Blue Sky project 2010 exhibition opening on July 31, 2010

"The 5th Blue Sky Project exhibition"
July 31 - August 8, 2010
@Civic Gallery, Takada Library in Takada Park, Joetsu City, Niigata, Japan

Click here the Link & Click here to see my work

 "Imagine PEACE Oriduru Project" by Ms. Yoko Ono & the Blue Sky Projectors collaboration Click here the details
Making Oriduru (using the Original ORIGAMI) with Ms.Ono's concept; Imagine Peace→Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace...


Joetsu Yomiuri News Paper 8/1/2010

Joetsu Times News Paper 8/1/2010
Images Courtesy of the artist

Sunday, July 11, 2010

The 5th Blue Sky Project Exhibition

"The 5th Blue Sky Project exhibition"
July 31 - August 8, 2010
@Civic Gallery, Takada Library in Takada Park, Joetsu City, Niigata, Japan

 
Click here the Link   &   Click here to see my work

"On September 11, 2001, the New York-based art historian Reiko Tomii photographed the tragedy of World Trade Center from her home, and uploaded three photographs for her Japanese friends. After a few years, I looked at her photographs and other documentary photographs, I realized one thing: there was a beautiful blue sky over New York. There was also a beautiful blue sky over Hiroshima on August 6, and over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, when atomic bombs were dropped on these Japanese cities. The blue sky was the backdrop of historic human follies, again and again.

I decided to reverse the situation--making the blue sky for a. backdrop of world peace, and conceived Blue Sky Project: An International Exhibition.
This year, we are organizing the 5th exhibition.

Above the clouds, there is the blue sky that envelopes the Earth. We will never make the beautiful blue sky a backdrop of war, nuclear bombing, terrorism, massacre, and other destructive acts. Never again.

The blue sky is our shared motif. We want you to freely express your hope for happiness of all the people in the world. We want to tell this message to many people in the world."

Saturday, June 19, 2010

"Wish You Were Here 9" Benefit Postcard Show at A.I.R. Gallery

"Wish You Were Here 9"
A.I.R.’s Annual Benefit Postcard Show at A.I.R. Gallery
June 23 - July 18, 2010

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 24, 6pm to 8pm
1st Thursday DUMBO Gallery Walk Postcard Show Reception:
Thursday, July 1, 6pm to 8:30pm


"Wish You Were Here 9" includes original works by more than 400 artists. The 4” x 6” artworks, as well as diptychs and triptychs based on this size, are created and donated by A.I.R. Gallery Artists and hundreds of other national and international artists. These cards range widely in style and media and encompass a broad spectrum of themes. Each card is signed and dated, often with a message from the artist to the collector. All 4” x 6” art works are priced at $40 each, with diptychs priced at $80 and triptychs at $120.

"Wish You Were Here 9" will also highlight a print donated by Kiki Smith and an ink drawing on a sea grape leaf by Mary Frank. These works will be available through silent auction. Please contact the gallery for more information or to bid on a work. The proceeds from this exhibition of postcard-sized works support our mission to advance the status of women in the arts and benefit the A.I.R. Fellowship Program for Emerging and Underrepresented Artists.
Read press release http://www.airgallery.org/images/postcard2010PR.pdf

A.I.R. Gallery
111 Front Street, #228 Brooklyn, NY 11201
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 11am - 6pm
212-255-6651
info@airgallery.org
http://www.airgallery.org/
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Wheelchair access to the building is through the 55 Washington Street entrance. Take the elevator to the 2nd Floor.

Directions: The F train to York St. (first stop in Brooklyn) Turn right as you exit the station, walk 1 block down hill to Front St. Turn left on Front St. and walk 2 1/2 blocks. Or take the A/C train to High St. (first stop in Brooklyn) and walk through Cadman Plaza Park and down Washington St. toward the water until you reach Front St, then turn right. 

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Press: Fall/Winter 2009 Luxos Magazine

"A Feminine View: Feminine Artistic Creativity Presents its Deeper Side" in Luxos Fall/Winter 2009  In [Okada]'s latest installation at A.I.R. Gallery she brought a piece of Japanese spirituality in the space, a series of rolled sheets of paper colored in red fading into white..."
"A Feminine View: Feminine Artistic Creativity Presents its Deeper Side" Fall/Winter 2009 Luxos Magazine, Milan, Italy

Friday, April 23, 2010

Curator Talk with Barbara O'Brien on "It Sweeps Me Away"

Talk with Barbara O'Brien the curator of "It Sweeps Me Away," A.I.R. Gallery's National Members exhibition March 3-28, 2010. Also, Barbara generously shared some notes on the exhibition. You can download the PDF here.

A Preview of A.I.R. Gallery's Flat Files

There are 25 artists! (Check out my work on paper "Letter of Zest" at 1:40 around on the video.) Also you can find my entire Flat Files images here as PDF. Enjoy!

Saturday, March 13, 2010

on going exhibition through March 28: …and sweeps me away by the A.I.R. National Artists

…and sweeps me away
curatorial essay by Barbara O’Brien
I have selected works of art for the 2010 National Members Exhibition that cannot be known by standing in a single place—either physical or philosophical. The artist invites, expects, or demands that the viewer move from near to far to experience the surface or composition of the art, that the viewer brings an intellectual generosity, a willingness to engage with the work of art.
I do not see these works as message driven, but they do take a stance that challenges a reading based on knowing the gender of the artist. There seems to be in the work as a whole a move away from the didactic to the interpretive, away from the self-portrait as an image of the self to the self-portrait as a cultural snapshot in which the viewer shares an implicit place. I am grateful to have been invited to jury this exhibition and hope that my observations can assist the visitor as he or she connects with the works of art on view.
--the following the extract from the essay--
Pale Planet by Katsura Okada is a bold continuation of the artist’s exploration of imbuing sculptural abstraction with political and social import. Looking, like many of the artists on view, toward an uneasy future, Okada utilizes rice paper in a range of blues to reference all that might be lost if environmental issues are not resolved: the palest blue of shimmering moonlight to the deepest marine blue of the ocean.
Barbara O’Brien
Curator, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Kansas Cit y, Misouri

“…and sweeps me away”: Curated by Barbara O’Brien
Dates: March 3 - 28, 2010
A.I.R. Gallery, Front Street, #228 Brooklyn, NY 11201
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 11am - 6pm, Tel: 212-255-6651
A.I.R. BLOG! airgalleryblog.blogspot.com   A.I.R. Twitter! Twitter.com/airgallery
Wheelchair access to the building is through the 55 Washington Street entrance. Take the elevator to the 2nd Floor.
Directions: The F train to York St. (first stop in Brooklyn) Turn right as you exit the station, walk 1 block down hill to Front St. Turn left on Front St. and walk 2 1/2 blocks. Or take the A/C train to High St. (first stop in Brooklyn) and walk through Cadman Plaza Park and down Washington St. toward the water until you reach Front St, then turn right.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

...And sweeps me away - A.I.R. National Artists Exhibition March 3-28 2010

An Exhibit by the National Artists of A.I.R. Gallery
... and sweeps me away  Curated by Barbara O'Brien
March 3 - 28, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 4th from 6 to 8pm with the Curator Talk at 5pm
Download the National Members Show Press Release
@A.I.R. Gallery, 111 Front St., #228, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY Tel: 212.255.6651
                                "Pale Planet" by Katsura Okada
...and sweeps me away is an exhibition featuring eighteen national members of A.I.R. Gallery curated by Barbara O'Brien of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. The artists in this exhibition Move away from the didactic to the interpretive, away from self portrait as image of self to self-portrait as a cultural snapshot. Many imbue abstraction and social import while others explore non-traditional approaches in their chosen mediums.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
The National Artists represented in this exhibition are: Carol Boram-Hays, Judy Cooper, Lisa Cooperman, Leigh Craven, Phyllis Ewen, Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin, Jan Johnson, Amy Kosh, Linda Kuehne, K.A. Letts, Gladys Tietz Mercier, Haley Morris-Cafiero, Nancy Morrow, Katsura Okada, Mimi Oritsky, Joan Ryan, Marie Sivak, and Meg Walker.