Yoshiaki Yuki
Yoshiaki Yuki began his career at the age of 20, exhibiting his works in his native Japan and overseas. Yuki’s work fuses modern art, representational images and abstract paintings into one single vision. Later he began exploring a unique calligraphic art he has named Ji-Sho-Ji-Ga, based on his vision of both Chinese and Japanese characters utilized more as images and symbols than an alphabet. Instead of writing, he paints the ancient hieroglyphic characters, gathering inspiration not from their meaning alone, but from their shape and form.
Yuki’s art extends to a great variety of canvases, including fabric, paper, wood, ceramics, glass and iron. These materials are fashioned into various works that include pictorial art known as Kakejiku (hanging scrolls), Byoobu (folding screens), lamps, furniture, tableware, and other decorative items.
Jun-ichi Arai|
Jun-ichi Arai was born in Kiryu, Japan, a city having over a one thousand year history as a center for textile manufacturing. His work held in permanent collections at Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Modern Art - New York, Museum of Arts and Design, Bolose Textile History Museum, Carnegie Museum, Cooper-Hewitt National Museum, Dallas Museum, Gangoji, Kiryu Art Culture Center, Okawa Museum, Philadelphia Museum, Power House Museum, Saint Louise Museum, Yetepori Museum, among others.
Because of his outstanding gift as textile creator, Arai was named Honorable Royal Designer for Industry by the British Royal Academy of Arts and received the Textile Design Medal by the Textile Institute (International Textile Academy).
Arai’s innovative fabrics have caught the imagination of global fashion designers, collaborating with Rei Kawakubo, Issey Miyake, Kansai Yamamoto, and Comme des Garçons.
Having acquired the highest honors and awards, he was the first to pioneer Jacquard machines and computers, blending tie-dye manual skills with new technology.
About Gallery Gen
The breathtaking beauty of Japan is the theme for the work at gallery gen. The ever-evolving, gallery gen (gen means origin, the source of all things in Japanese), presents a wide variety of contemporary art in ceramics, paper, fiber, and myriad media by artist Yoshiaki Yuki, distinguish, contemporary textile works by Jun-ichi Arai and other artists who gather their inspiration from the traditional arts and culture of Japan blending both Japanese antiques and art of other Asian nations to create a completely new look for discerning collectors, museums and modern homes worldwide.
gallery gen presents a mix representative of eastern and western cultures including fine art, handcrafted ceramics, tableware, hanging scrolls, folding screens, lighting, textiles and other one-of-a-kind objects.
Gallery Contact Information:
gallery gen.
47-09 36th St.
Long Island City, NY 11101.
tl:
718 392 7717
contact: Masahiko Tasaki
www.gallerygen.com
info@gallerygen.com
Media Contacts:
Liana Pérez- Art Circuits - liana@artcircuits.com - c: 786 262 1112
Patrice Samara - Triumph Communications Group - ps@triumphnewyork.com - c: 917 482 3256
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