Exhibition Dates
August 2 – August 16, 2008



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New Plus Old: Young Japanese Calligraphers

Onishi Gallery is delighted to present six young Japan­ese cal­lig­ra­phers in a group show, New Plus Old. The show will fea­ture 16 pieces by the young cal­lig­ra­phers, all of whom are in their twen­ties. At the August 8th open­ing, inspired by the sum­mer sea­son, a calligraphy-music band will per­form at 7 pm in the gallery.

A joint col­lab­o­ra­tion by artists Yurika Nagamine, Eriko Miura and Saya Tanaka, Fudekko Club (“Brush Girls Club”) has per­formed its cal­lig­ra­phy demon­stra­tions at clubs in Tokyo and is proud to pre­mier in New York at Onishi Gallery.

Through clas­si­cal cal­lig­ra­phy paired with hip hand-lettering onto unique sur­faces rather than paper, these artists reflect the show’s theme with a dis­tinctly 21st cen­tury fresh­ness and sense of pur­pose. By hold­ing cal­lig­ra­phy exhi­bi­tions in New York City, the artists are work­ing to estab­lish calligraphy’s place as an inter­na­tional art form.

All grad­u­ates of the Depart­ment of Cal­lig­ra­phy of Daito Bunka Uni­ver­sity, the artists fea­tured in New Plus Old are com­mit­ted to career paths in cal­lig­ra­phy, an ancient yet mod­ern art.

Sev­eral of the par­tic­i­pat­ing artists also teach cal­lig­ra­phy at Japan­ese high schools. By explor­ing cal­lig­ra­phy as a daily rit­ual, this extra­or­di­nary group of female artists seeks to re-examine their gen­der and iden­tity as con­tem­po­rary cal­lig­ra­phers and to exca­vate the mean­ing of cal­lig­ra­phy in mod­ern society.

This exhi­bi­tion is sup­ported by the Depart­ment of Cal­lig­ra­phy and Research Cen­ter for Cal­lig­ra­phy, Daito Bunka Uni­ver­sity, Japan.  Addi­tional sup­port is pro­vided by ITO EN, Inc.

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