AKAKABI
AKAKABI
Installation works by Shihori Yamamoto
March 7 - March 14, 2015
chashama 461 Gallery
461 West 126th Street
(between Amsterdam Avenue and Convent Avenue in Harlem)
New York, NY
Open Hours:
Sunday, March 8 - Saturday, March 14 from 1-6 pm
Reception for the Artist:
Saturday, March 7, 6-8:30 pm
Utilizing her background in Architecture, Shihori Yamamoto creates large site-specific installations composed of building materials. Yamamoto’s work expresses her obsession with warm colors that has protected her from insecurity since her early childhood. In this exhibition, Yamamoto creates a site-specific installation, AKAKABI (red mold in Japanese) in the 461 gallery. AKAKABI expresses her persistent desire for control over the surrounding spaces by using a metaphor of red mold which everybody sees in their bathrooms. Red mold in a bathroom steadily invades the space from the corners to the rest of the bathroom. It must be something that everybody wants to get rid of, yet it in fact is something that you cannot really control without having a labor of cleaning the space very often. Yamamoto believes the persistency and stubbornness of the red mold are similar to her practice. AKAKABI consists of plenty of industrial cotton rags from the hardware store. Yamamoto hand-sawed them into large pieces, dyed them into orange-red, and has installed them to the walls with thumbtacks. Much like red mold does in a bathroom, her fabric red mold steadily invades the space and transforms the neutral environment into her comfortable warm colored environments.
Artist Biography:
Shihori Yamamoto is a New York based artist born in Kanagawa, Japan in 1988. She received her BA in Architecture from Musashino Art University, Tokyo and MFA from Pratt Institute. Her exhibitions include Ouchi Galley (Brooklyn, NY), SOHO20 Chelsea Galley, (New York, NY), Brooklyn Water Art Collision (Brooklyn, NY) and Kunsthalle Galapagos, (Brooklyn, NY). Awards and residencies include Kimmel Harding Nelson Residency Award, Vermont Studio Center Grant, Ito foundation Fellowship. Her publication includes New York Observer Gallerist and Starry Night Press.
For more information, contact the artist at shihoriyamamoto.art@gmail.com.
Installation works by Shihori Yamamoto
March 7 - March 14, 2015
chashama 461 Gallery
461 West 126th Street
(between Amsterdam Avenue and Convent Avenue in Harlem)
New York, NY
Open Hours:
Sunday, March 8 - Saturday, March 14 from 1-6 pm
Reception for the Artist:
Saturday, March 7, 6-8:30 pm
Utilizing her background in Architecture, Shihori Yamamoto creates large site-specific installations composed of building materials. Yamamoto’s work expresses her obsession with warm colors that has protected her from insecurity since her early childhood. In this exhibition, Yamamoto creates a site-specific installation, AKAKABI (red mold in Japanese) in the 461 gallery. AKAKABI expresses her persistent desire for control over the surrounding spaces by using a metaphor of red mold which everybody sees in their bathrooms. Red mold in a bathroom steadily invades the space from the corners to the rest of the bathroom. It must be something that everybody wants to get rid of, yet it in fact is something that you cannot really control without having a labor of cleaning the space very often. Yamamoto believes the persistency and stubbornness of the red mold are similar to her practice. AKAKABI consists of plenty of industrial cotton rags from the hardware store. Yamamoto hand-sawed them into large pieces, dyed them into orange-red, and has installed them to the walls with thumbtacks. Much like red mold does in a bathroom, her fabric red mold steadily invades the space and transforms the neutral environment into her comfortable warm colored environments.
Artist Biography:
Shihori Yamamoto is a New York based artist born in Kanagawa, Japan in 1988. She received her BA in Architecture from Musashino Art University, Tokyo and MFA from Pratt Institute. Her exhibitions include Ouchi Galley (Brooklyn, NY), SOHO20 Chelsea Galley, (New York, NY), Brooklyn Water Art Collision (Brooklyn, NY) and Kunsthalle Galapagos, (Brooklyn, NY). Awards and residencies include Kimmel Harding Nelson Residency Award, Vermont Studio Center Grant, Ito foundation Fellowship. Her publication includes New York Observer Gallerist and Starry Night Press.
For more information, contact the artist at shihoriyamamoto.art@gmail.com.
