Minoru Ohira was awarded the 36th Teijiro Nakahara Award
- The Teijiro Nakahara Award was established in 1970 at Asahikawa City, Hokaido to honor the work of Teijiro Nakahara who establishment of the history of mordern sculpture in Japan. This award intended to contribute to the futher development of Japanese sculpture and selected Japanese artists who exhibited great works in Japan from April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2009. The 36th Teijiro Nakahara Award selection committee took place in Asahikawa Grand Hotel on May 20, 2009. Minoru Ohira was selected from 560 Artists, 1,568 works. The 36th Teijiro Nakahara Award went to Ohira's work "Casa ". The 36th Teijiro Nakahara Award selection committee will hold an award presentation ceremony at Asahikawa city Oyuki Cristal Hall on October 4, 2009.
ARTIST FILE 2009
The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art
The National Art Center Tokyo, Roppongi
March 4, 2009, Wednesday- May 6, 2009, Wednesday
Roppongi Art Night
3/28(sat)10:00 - 3/29(sun)18:00
main program time 17:59[sunset] - 5:32[sunrise]
Theme Programs - Hunt the Art - 3 Art cubes at the NACT
- Closed on Tuesdays (except May 5) Museum hours : 10:00 - 18:00 (Friday 10:00 - 20:00)
Last admission 30 minutes before closing Venue: Special Exhibition Gallery 2E,
The National Art Center, Tokyo 7-22-2 Roppongi Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Organizers : The National Art Center, Tokyo Assisted by Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam
Artist file - this NACT exhibition introduces a contemporary art movement that begins now and moves into the future. Each year we present what we believe to be good examples of current art - art that takes us into the future. This second group show has no theme but focuses on 9 different artists.
The work of these 9 artists comprise a broad range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, film, and installation art. The themes included in the exhibition are based on media, geography, formal concerns and collective aesthetic and political impulses. " Artist file 2009" curated by NACT gives one the feeling of a depth of artistic expression with more diversity than past exhibitions.
- Selected Artists:
Peter Bogers , Film
Shigeko Hirakawa , Installation
Naoki Ishikawa , Photography
Mio Kaneda , Painting
Aiko Miyanaga , Installation
Shingo Murai , Sculpture
Minoru Ohira , Sculpture
Meo Saito , Painting
Miyuki Tsugami , Painting
Minoru Ohira Solo Exhibition "Petrified People"
MURAMATSU GALLERY Tokyo, Kyobashi
Feburary 16, 2009, Monday - March 7, 2009, Saturday
"Space Gallery December 1975 - August 1995"
W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University Pomona
September 14, 2008 - October 18, 2008
Reception Sunday Sept 14, 2 – 5PM
- The idea of doing a retrospective of Ed Lau's Space Gallery had been in its formative stages for the last couple of years. Some rough ideas for the exhibition had been worked out with Ed prior to his death in April of 2008. While not originally intended as a tribute to Ed Lau, since his death the exhibition has assumed that dimension. I (curator Patrick Merrill) always felt that there was a specific aesthetic to the work exhibited over the years at Space. Of course this had everything to do with Ed. Whether the work was abstract or based on narrative there seemed to me many shared qualities – for example, sensitivity to material, subtle psychological tension and a high respect for craft. Ed seemed to seek out artists who themselves were searching for essentials. Ed once told me that the relationship between an artist and his/her gallerist was similar to that of a marriage. He would say he was in it for the long haul – good times and bad. As a result he didn’t choose artists on a whim or who might be in fashion but by watching them over time, seeing their development and above all, their commitment to their art. Commitment to his artists was very important to Ed. It was probably one of the major reasons he developed such a high-caliber group of artists. This exhibit is not intended to be some sort of history of Space Gallery. It is to be about the Space Gallery’s artists. This exhibition is not so much about what the artists were doing then, but rather what everyone is doing now, how they have evolved.
- Participating Artists:
Bob Anderson, Sandy Bleifer, Carl Cheng, Wes Christensen, Steve Cortright, Phyllis Davidson, John Davis, Christel Dillbohner, Roberta Eisenberg, Bella Feldman, Judith Foosaner, Robert Glover, Joe Edward Grant, Kenneth Hale, Larry Hurst, Kazuo Kadonaga, Joyce Kohl, Seiji Kunishima, Sam Lemly, Norman Lundin, Minoru Ohira, Carlos Padilla, Ann Page, Patrick Percy, Tom Post, Norman Schwab, Olga Seem, Tom Stanton, Masami Teraoka, Richard Thompson, Judy Tuwalelstiwa, Alan Valencia, Boyd Wright, Doug Young, Michael Davis
BREADBAR presents | Minoru & Echiko Ohira
Mixed Media Sculpture and Illusionist Works on Paper
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BREADBAR Century City is proud to present artists Minoru and Echiko Ohira. United by familial, cultural and stylistic ties, Minoru and Echiko's work is inspired by nature and the inherent beauty of found objects.
"[Echiko Ohira's] threads literally and figuratively secure seemingly useless materials, giving a kind of dignity to the smallest discard, a metaphor for the forgotten among us." - Marge Bulmer From objects encountered in daily life that may otherwise have been discarded, Echiko Ohira creates seemingly soft works with paper and found objects that contrast strength and subtly, energy and precision, life and [its] fragility. In viewing "birth" - a piece meticulously crafted of rolled paper, wire and string - from a distance, it exudes a sort of ripe softness; upon closer inspection, the wire feels more fierce than fuzzy, the redness more potent than pleasant.
"with nature always" -Minoru Ohira
Minoru Ohira focuses in this exhibit on sculptural works that use traditional Japanese wood-working techniques. The silkiness of finely sanded wood lies in direct opposition to industrial steel, producing an effect of powerful vulnerability. Take a closer look: note how grounded the pieces are, and yet how they are separable; in fact, they are held together with magentic force.
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