Jacob Hashimoto Exhibitions and Paintings at Saatchi-gallery

Jacob Hashimoto was born on 1973 lives in New York City and Verona. Jacob Hashimoto cuts rice paper into small geometric shapes and glues the shapes to delicate wooden frameworks, which he attaches to black fishing line and ties to long wooden pegs at the top and bottom of his rectangular, wall-mounted, waterfall-like hangings. The pegs are evenly spaced from side to side across the top and bottom of the piece.

The artist ties six roughly overlapping layers of shapes onto each peg, creating a dense, kaleidoscopic multi-level field in which a given shape may be visible or hidden, depending on the angle of view. The hanging seems to move as we walk past. But is it a sculpture or a painting? Where is the figure? Where is the ground?

Hashimoto’s show, titled "skip skitter start trip vault bounce — and other attempts at flight" opened at Chicago’s Rhona Hoffman Gallery in mid-November, but closed early when everything sold. The show featured one ceiling piece along with seven wall works, constructed of like elements but with varying content.

Slip into Vapor could almost be a landscape. Measuring five feet high and four feet wide by 7.5 inches deep, it is composed of paper ovals, each roughly four inches wide, which are mounted on X-shaped frameworks and suspended between 13 wooden pegs at the top and 13 below. White and blue ovals, suggesting clouds and sky, comprise the upper half of Slip into Vapor, while darker ovals in the lower half could be rocks, soil or vegetation. The artist collages long slices of green paper-like grass onto some ovals and puts fanciful decorative designs on others. As the viewer walks by, these peep out to surprise and amuse.

Face Ache at Ice Cream Social measures eight feet square and employs hexagon shapes with a mad variety of designs. Dark and dense above and light below, this piece seems to sparkle, bubble upward, and move in all three dimensions, but it is never busy because the artist alternates decorated and plain white hexagons, both across the face of the work and in its layers. Hashimoto begins by making wooden frames from tiny sticks, tying them together with thread, and affixing translucent rice paper to them. If he wants color or a design, he collages it onto the paper shape — nothing is painted. When a framed shape is ready, he dips it in acrylic resin for strength. After creating a large inventory of these elements, he selects shapes of different size and design, and strings them on nylon line, which he employs because it does not stretch. Now he is ready to tie the strings to the pegs. Hashimoto also exhibited Super Abundant Atmosphere II, a ceiling-hung work made of pale forms that suggest billowing clouds. Apparently one of the "attempts at flight" in the show title, this piece brought the sky indoors and almost seemed ready to levitate the gallery.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007

• Mary Boone Gallery, NY

2006

• Studio La Città, Verona

2005

• Superabundant Atmosphere, Rice Gallery, Rice University, Houston
• Skip Skitter Start Trip Vault Bounce – and other attempts at flight, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago

2004

• Bloom, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
• Altadena, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma

2003

• The Nature of Objects, Studio la Città, Verona

2002

• Studio la Città, Verona
• Silent Rhythm, Galleria Traghetto, Venice
• Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio

2001

• Giant Yellow, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica
• Big Mountain, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica

2000

• Carte Blanche à Hélène de Franchis, Galerie Lucien Durand-Le Gaillard, Paris
• Project Room, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica
• Giant Yellow and Other Structures, Galerie Lucien Durand-Le Gaillard, Paris

1999

• Armada, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
• Infinite Lightness, Studio la Città, Verona
• Galleria La Nuova Pesa, Rome

1998

• Infinite Expanse of Sky, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• Project Room, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica

1997

• Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago

1996

• Sky Canopy Installation, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005

• Italian Feeling, XIV Quadriennale di Roma, Galleria Nazionale d’Atre di Roma, Rome

2004

• White, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica
• Artseasons, Cas Pellers, Palma de Mallorca
• Jen ne regrette rien, Studio la Città, Verona

2003

• Structure, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica

2002

• Intermezzo, Studio la Città, Verona
• Officina America – ReteEmiliaRomagna, Palazzo dell’Arengo, Rimini

2001

• Phoenix Triennial, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix
• Conceptual Color: In Albers’ Afterimage, San Francisco State University, San Francisco

2000

• Made in California NOW, Boone Children’s Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art West

1997

• Perennial, Carleton College Boliou Art Gallery, Northfield, Minnesota.
• Headless, William Cordove and Jacob Hashimoto, Lineage Gallery, Chicago

1996

• Thesis Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
• Young Americans of Asian Ancestry, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

Conclusions:

Jacob Hashimoto show, titled "skip skitter start trip vault bounce — and other attempts at flight" opened at Chicago’s Rhona Hoffman Gallery in mid-November, but closed early when everything sold. The show featured one ceiling piece along with seven wall works, constructed of like elements but with varying content.

What to Do Next…

If you want any information about Jacob Hashimoto or looking for his paintings please visit us on http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/jacob_hashimoto.htm

Ian Davis Exhibitions and Paintings at Saatchi-gallery

Selected Works by Ian Davis are at first he worked on Factory in 2006 Acrylic on canvas,secondly he worked on Doledrum in 2006 Acrylic on canvas and also great more works done by Ian Davis.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007

• Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2006

• The Great Divide, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles

2000

• Art One Gallery, Scottsdale

• Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City

1998

• Eight Million Stories, New School for the Arts, Scottsdale

• Art One Gallery, Scottsdale

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004

• Miscegenation, The Chocolate Factory, Phoenix

• Merry/Peace, Sideshow, Brooklyn

• Born in the U.S.A., Galerie Art One, Zurich

2003

• GRA Gallery, New York

• Fugitive Art Space, Nashville

2002

• GRA Gallery, New York

2001

• Above Ground, Dam, Stuhltrager, Brooklyn

1999

• Horror, 381g, San Francisco

• Art One Gallery, Scottsdale

• Three Painters, 381g, San Francisco

1998

• Whole Gallery, San Francisco

1997

• Four, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco

1996

• Artworks Gallery, San Francisco

1995

• Transitions, Arizona State University West Gallery, Phoenix

1994

• Painting and Sculpture, Step Gallery 9999, Tempe

• Joe Robbins, Ian Davis, Matthew Kruse, Step Gallery 709, Tempe

What to Do Next…

If you want any information about Ian Davis or looking for his paintings please visit us on http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/ian_davis.htm

Selected Works and Paintings by Christian Ward at the Saatchi-gallery

Christian Ward’s eye-grabbingly vivid paintings where Technicolor mountains, caverns and grottoes shimmer with rainbows, cascade with multicoloured waterfalls and are wreathed in iridescent mist.Ward’s wanderings have taken him from the mountains of Scotland and across America into the Arizona desert, but his most recent paintings – and the ones that caught Charles Saatchi’s eye – have their starting point in Yakushima, an island off the southern coast of Japan. This World Heritage Site with its virgin, swampy jungle and rocky mountains plunging into the ocean, is not only scenically spectacular, but also has a personal signiÞcance. Ward’s mother is Japanese and her family originally came from this area;

‘It’s always about a primary experience and then coming back and not doing a topography, but making something surprising and revealing about the landscape,’ he says. ‘Contemplation is a very big part of the process.’The influences of this 25-year-old graduate of the Royal Academy Schools range from Sixties psychedelic graphic design to ancient Chinese paintings, as well as the latest Japanese animation techniques. Yet for all their phantasmagoric otherworldliness – one critic described them as a cross between Fantasia and The Land That Time Forgot – they are always based on the direct experience of a real place.

Then there’s the physical quality of the paint itself: no shiny surfaces and quick-drying acrylic here, but juicy areas of oil paint that gives the work a direct physical immediacy that prevents it from tumbling into kitsch. Ward attaches great importance to technique and applies his paint in lush, sweeping brushstrokes that he’s compared to the raking of gravel around the rocks in Zen gardens. ‘I’m very interested in this idea of origin, and for me origin as a subject is very hard to pinpoint. Painting, because of its history, deals with origin very well. It’s got this life to it that isn’t apparent in a lot of other mediums’.While he’s happy to have been singled out by Saatchi, ‘it means I can carry on, which is a good thing.’ Ward is already pondering new avenues,

what to Do Next…

Find more information about Christian Ward Exhibitions or looking for his paintings please visit us on
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/christian_ward.htm

Aurel Schmidt Exhibitions and Paintings at Saatchi-gallery

Aurel Schmidt was born on 1982 in Kamloops, BC, Canada. currently lives and Works in New York.He was living a really charmed life in Vancouver.The zombie drawings take a long time. Days, Months… I’ve never timed it Everything was perfect. he needed to make life more difficult.he wanted a challenge, to try new things, meet new people.Executed with painstaking detail, Aurel Schmidt’s Body Swallows World, pictures a fairytale landscape turned nightmare. Rendered in coloured pencil with acrylic paint highlights Schmidt’s forest allures with the organic rhythms of vivification and decay, as thousands of tiny hand drawn bugs, worms, snakes, and creepy crawlies devour the scene. Reminiscent of Durer’s The Large Turf or Arcimboldo’s composite figures, Schmidt’s drawing combines beauty and horror in its microcosmic embellishment, creating a sense of awe in its meticulous craftsmanship and allegorical subject matter.

After seeing her work on Tim Barber’s Tiny Vices I became an instant fan. After doing a little internet research and poking around in her FBI file I contacted her and conducted the following interview. I hope a gallery in the Bay Area brings her out here at some point. Because I have a feeling that her work is even more impressive in the flesh.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008

• Deitch Projects, New York (forthcoming)

2007

• Body Swallows World, Peres Projects Los Angeles

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006

• Panic Room, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens

• 25 Bold Moves (with tinyvices), House of Campari, New York

• tinyvices, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York

• tinyvices, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

• tinyvices, Studio Bee, Maison Daikanyama 2F, Tokyo

Conclusions:

Time, care and detail are the first things that come to mind when looking at Ms. Schmidt’s work. It’s as every crevice of one of her pieces is filled with something for the eye. Painstaking attention to every detail is spelled out in each of her lines.

What to Do Next…

If you want any information about Aurel Schmidt or looking for his paintings please visit us on http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/aurel_schmidt.htm