Exhibition Dates
September 9 – September 30, 2006



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KUYO

Onishi Gallery is pleased to exhibit a tal­ented group of artists whose works reflect var­i­ous com­po­nents of Kuyo.

Kuyo

Kuyo is to nur­ture love. It is a bond. In times of strife, hope lies in real­iz­ing rela­tion­ships with another per­son. The ques­tion lies in how one can pray. In Japan, in numer­ous homes, the con­cept of Kuyo is revealed inside every­one. In this way, it can be shared glob­ally, pro­vid­ing a place for remem­brance in fam­ily. A path opens for new gen­er­a­tions. Through Kuyo, peo­ple are reminded of a nat­ural con­nec­tion between each other.

Kuyo is an aware­ness of links shared among peo­ple. Often, rela­tion­ships are held by a mutual under­stand­ing. In many ways, var­i­ous kinds of bonds are felt in the art­work displayed.

Rob Carter col­lages images of land­scapes and archi­tec­ture between the U.K and the U.S. As Carter lay­ers imagery, it opens por­tals into his his­tory. Home becomes rooted from birth. In these jour­neys, signs and sym­bols describe stories.

Jesús Polanco paints mul­ti­ple sto­ries to describe life. In con­nect­ing jour­neys, NATSU’s lumi­nous beads join to describe a song between the earth, sky, and air. Her instal­la­tion drifts through space con­nect­ing all peo­ple in entwined orbits.

The inter­pre­ta­tion of a form, object, or pic­ture shifts in Yamini Nayar’s pho­tographs. Scale and arrange­ment alter per­cep­tions of domesticity.

Space becomes rede­fined in many of Jaret Vadera’s abstract works. He ques­tions ways of see­ing by direct­ing the viewer to see abstrac­tion as a fil­ter mov­ing within a recre­ated world.

Sirio Tom­ma­soli‘s video paints a somber sky drift­ing into a field of red flow­ers. It becomes char­ac­ter­is­tic of a crowd of peo­ple adjoined as a sea of red waves.

Loca­tion, time, mem­ory and iden­tity are threads in the way Suzanne Broughel cre­ates her instal­la­tions. She uses mate­ri­als such as Band-Aids rep­re­sent­ing a select spec­trum of skin dic­tated by the type of skin color a con­sumer may have.

In defin­ing rela­tion­ships between indi­vid­u­als, Carol Pereira describes a dance between two peo­ple try­ing to com­mu­ni­cate to each other sur­rounded by var­i­ous sounds, peo­ple, and nature. Rela­tion­ships rep­re­sent a bud­ding tree.

Roberto Leone carves a wooden tree as fig­u­ra­tive parts grow towards the sky. A har­mony is felt. A con­nec­tion between home, mem­ory, love, friends, and fam­ily appears in the works of these artists fea­tured in Kuyo.

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