ONISHI GALLERY

About Onishi Gallery

Pro­file

Activ­ity by Onishi Gallery in pro­mot­ing inter­na­tional artis­tic exchange tran­scends the gallery’s Chelsea loca­tion and embraces the New York com­mu­nity. The gallery works closely, for instance, with the New York–based Japan Soci­ety. It also col­lab­o­rates in exhi­bi­tions and in other under­tak­ings with the United Nations Staff Recre­ation Council’s Friend­ship Club, with the Kyoto Cul­ture Asso­ci­a­tion, and with other partners.

Although indis­putably con­tem­po­rary and rel­e­vant in the art world today, the artists rep­re­sented by Onishi Gallery embrace tra­di­tions, both in terms of prac­tice and process. It is a meld­ing of past and present, which makes the art­work so dynamic and his­tor­i­cally rich. Keep­ing with the theme of merg­ing the tra­di­tional with the novel, the col­lab­o­ra­tion between the Musée du Lou­vre and Dai Nip­pon Print­ing strives to study the art­work of mas­ters using a fresh approach, uti­liz­ing highly inno­v­a­tive tech­nol­ogy. The recent exhi­bi­tion, Canon’s Mixed Real­ity Tech­nol­ogy, also show­cases the results of forward-thinking minds, as noth­ing of it’s kind is even on the mar­ket yet.

Onishi Gallery’s artists are rep­re­sented in the per­ma­nent col­lec­tions of many major muse­ums includ­ing the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Museum of Art, the British Museum and the Smith­son­ian Institution.

Art Con­sult­ing

Onishi Gallery is atten­tive to the needs and inter­ests of col­lec­tors and museum cura­tors. It works on behalf of new and estab­lished clients to iden­tify works from the gallery’s cat­a­logues and from other sources for spec­i­fied artis­tic cri­te­ria. The gallery is active in art con­sul­ta­tion for per­sonal and insti­tu­tional col­lec­tions, for inte­rior design and archi­tec­tural projects, and for spe­cial events.

Inte­rior Decor

Inte­rior dec­o­ra­tors and other design pro­fes­sion­als turn to Onishi Gallery for intro­duc­tions to works of Japan­ese and other Asian art for con­tem­po­rary West­ern set­tings. For exam­ples of tra­di­tional Japan­ese art avail­able through Onishi Gallery, please visit the Art of Kyoto at www.kyotointernational.com

Mar­ket­ing

Onishi Gallery works with busi­nesses to pro­mote prod­ucts asso­ci­ated with Asian cul­tural and art themes in the US mar­ket. That mar­ket­ing assis­tance can include events at the gallery and at other venues. Con­sult­ing in sup­port of brand­ing strat­egy is also available.

In col­lab­o­ra­tion projects between Japan’s tra­di­tional indus­try and Amer­i­can fash­ion indus­try, the gallery intro­duces Kyoto’s Nishi­jin Bro­cade to New York haute cou­ture fash­ion designer Ralph Rucci for his dresses. http://kyotointernational.com/gallery/ralph-rucci-fashion

The gallery pro­motes the “KAGA inte­rior – Yamanaka lac­quer” project as a part of Japan Brand, a gov­ern­ment ini­tia­tive being sup­ported by Japan ’s Min­istry of Econ­omy, Trade and Indus­try, and the Japan Cham­ber of Com­merce and Indus­tries. http://kagainterior.com/