Hiromitsu Kuroo
Hiromitsu Kuroo
June 4 - August 22, 2014
Open Hours:
Monday - Friday, 8 am - 7 pm
*Reservation required: e-mail janusz@chashama.org
Reception for the Artist:
Thursday, June 12, 6 - 8 pm
Lobby Gallery
1133 Avenue of the Americas
(between 43rd and 44th)
New York, NY
Hiromitsu Kuroo's relief constructions are at once a reinvestigations of western abstraction's possibilities and a development in Japanese origami. Eschewing the tradition of mimesis most often associated with the fold-making art form (representations of cranes, dragons, or butterflies, etc), the artist relishes in the formal autonomy of the fold, with patterned pleats, overlaps, and inversions. Individual geometric shapes formed by the final folds of canvas are painted with saturated acrylics in ways that divide the textured surface into the push and pull elements of figure and ground.
Ranging in size from three to ten feet in any given direction, Kuroo's folds often extend beyond the traditional painting's rectilinear edges, making the works decidedly contemporary and unrestrained and challenging the limits of Abstract Expressionism's obedience to the stretcher frame's four-cornered geometry. The aggressively painted surface, that appears subsequently worn down through abrasion, pulsates with energy and its own spirit of struggle and defiance.
Kuroo earned his BFA and MFA from Tohoku University of Art & Design, and has had solo exhibitions in New York at the Tenri Cultural Institute, Gloria Kennedy Gallery, Ouchi Gallery, MaKaRi and Bronx Community College, and in Tokyo at Gallery Yamaguchi and G-Art Gallery. In 2010 he received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
Sales and information:
Janusz Jaworski, curator
212-391-8151 x 26
janusz@chashama.org
June 4 - August 22, 2014
Open Hours:
Monday - Friday, 8 am - 7 pm
*Reservation required: e-mail janusz@chashama.org
Reception for the Artist:
Thursday, June 12, 6 - 8 pm
Lobby Gallery
1133 Avenue of the Americas
(between 43rd and 44th)
New York, NY
Hiromitsu Kuroo's relief constructions are at once a reinvestigations of western abstraction's possibilities and a development in Japanese origami. Eschewing the tradition of mimesis most often associated with the fold-making art form (representations of cranes, dragons, or butterflies, etc), the artist relishes in the formal autonomy of the fold, with patterned pleats, overlaps, and inversions. Individual geometric shapes formed by the final folds of canvas are painted with saturated acrylics in ways that divide the textured surface into the push and pull elements of figure and ground.
Ranging in size from three to ten feet in any given direction, Kuroo's folds often extend beyond the traditional painting's rectilinear edges, making the works decidedly contemporary and unrestrained and challenging the limits of Abstract Expressionism's obedience to the stretcher frame's four-cornered geometry. The aggressively painted surface, that appears subsequently worn down through abrasion, pulsates with energy and its own spirit of struggle and defiance.
Kuroo earned his BFA and MFA from Tohoku University of Art & Design, and has had solo exhibitions in New York at the Tenri Cultural Institute, Gloria Kennedy Gallery, Ouchi Gallery, MaKaRi and Bronx Community College, and in Tokyo at Gallery Yamaguchi and G-Art Gallery. In 2010 he received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
Sales and information:
Janusz Jaworski, curator
212-391-8151 x 26
janusz@chashama.org
