Vertical Gardens @ AIA SF Feb 18-April 30, 2010!

My work is traveling with the exhibition to the American Institute of Architects Gallery inSan Francisco and is up from February 18 - April 31, 2010. More info is attached below - in case you are in the area. Thank you for your support! (I want to go visit San Francisco soon, but not sure I can scrounge up the funds...we shall see...)

Vertical Gardens

February 18 - April 30, 2010AIA San Francisco Gallery

130 Sutter Street, Suite 600

Opening Reception February 25, 6:00-7:15 pm...Read more

Dwell Magazine Dec/Jan 2009

I have a new drawing in the Dec/Jan 2009 issue of Dwell Magazine, Theme Attic (inside back cover) section. This month's theme: Bauhaus! 

About my work...

My work hovers between painting and drawing, a flat sensibility that comes from growing up in Japan among Chinese-characters and graphics mashed together to organize small spaces. Another influence is 16th-century Japanese screen paintings and 15th-century Netherlandish paintings–which jump between aerial, perspectival, and frontal views to best illustrate their stories. My painting-drawings are devoid of figures–they are abstract spaces in a parallel universe, showing how the world might look had Orwell's visions come true, if a buildin...Read more

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