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Oct
11
“Time” show at the Lab
Time
Featuring: Adam Katseff, Eric Larson, Angela Willetts and Todd Anderson, Kevin Seaman, Scott Kildall, Ashley Lauren Saks, Nicole Phungrasamee Fein, Surabhi Saraf, Brice Bischoff, Michael Namkung, Yuki Maruyama, Jennifer Campbell, and Leeza Doreian.
Opening Reception: Friday, October 7, 2011, 6 – 9pm
Exhibition dates: October 8 – October 29, 2011
Gallery hours: Thursday – Saturday, 16 – 6pm
The Lab is located at 2948 16th St, San Francisco.
Statement:
My drawings are strongly influenced by Japanese Manga (comics), my favorite form of art and literature since my childhood in the US and through my adolescence in Japan. To this day, the narrative and formal possibilities of the Manga genre continue to fuel my imagination and curiosity.
I am interested in the implication of Time and Space inherent to Manga and comics, that is, the representation of disparate moments (frames in a comic book) within one picture plane. This Time/Space relationship is one I have been particularly conscious of in my recent work.
For the Time Exhibition I am presenting an installation of drawings on wood blocks of various sizes and shapes whose sides function loosely as comic frames. The blocks are modular; they can be assembled and reconfigured into countless spatial arrangements. The interplay of two-dimensional and three-dimensional pictorial spaces, as well as the modular nature of the blocks, allows for a great range of formal and narrative experimentation.
Over the course of the exhibition I will periodically alter the installation by recombining, removing, and adding pieces.
My drawings are strongly influenced by Japanese Manga (comics), my favorite form of art and literature since my childhood in the US and through my adolescence in Japan.
In my latest body of work I’ve been drawing on wood blocks of various sizes and shapes. Each side of each block loosely functions as a comic frame. The blocks are modular; they can be assembled and reconfigured into countless spatial arrangements. The interplay of two-dimensional and three-dimensional pictorial spaces, as well as the modular nature of the blocks, allows for a great range of narrative and formal exploration.
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May
11
Sticker series
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Apr
11
Drawings on paper
Fusuma are sliding screen doors made of heavy paper and wood and are found in traditional Japanese houses. They typically carry illustrations of scenes from nature. They are designed to define and conceal spaces, yet the privacy they afford is limited.
At the Yomoyama-So art residency in Ibaraki, Japan, I added my own drawings to four of the Fusuma in the 300-year old Yomoyama-So house. They are my reaction to the ways in which sexuality is represented, talked about and not talked about in modern day Japan, and are ultimately self-portraits.
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Yuki Maruyama: cv
Education:
2004 MFA, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2002 BA, New York University, New York, NY.
Selected Projects and Exhibitions:
2012
“Yuki Maruyama: Superflat 3D”, The Parts Room Gallery, Oakland, CA.
The Compound Gallery, Spring-Summer Artist-In-Residence. Oakland, CA.
2011
“Time”, The Lab, San Francisco, CA.
“Ever After”, OFF Space Projects, Oakland, CA.
“Chain Letter”, Samson Projects, Boston, MA.
“Monster Drawing Rally 2011”, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA.
“Bay Area Artists for Japan”, Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
“Dear Japan”, Art Connects Gallery, New York, NY.
2010
“Shadowshop” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
“Artists for Africa”, Theatres des Sens Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
“The LAB’s 26th Annual Auction”, The LAB, San Francisco, CA.
2009
“Wrong!”, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA.
“The LAB’s 25th Anniversary Auction”, The LAB, San Francisco, CA.
“Real Peace”, Theatres des Sens Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
2008
“Yomoyama Exhibition 2008″, Yomoyama House Domestic Art Project, Ibaraki, Japan.
“Code-Switchers”, The LAB, San Francisco, CA.
Yomoyama House Domestic Art Project, April-June Artist in Residence. Ibaraki, Japan.
“Artists for Tibet”, Theatres des Sens Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
2007
“Vs”, Curated by Mark Beasley for Creative Time, New York NY.
“Childish Things”, 301 Bocana Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2006
“Some Assembly Required”, The LAB, San Francisco, CA.”California Roll”, Playspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
“Community Virology”, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA.
“Frozen Tears III”, Publication edited by John Russell, ARTicle Press: Birmingham, UK.
“California Roll: Bay Area Artists in Rural Japan”, traveling exhibition, Kyoto, Japan.
“Works On Paper”, Flux Factory Gallery, New York, NY.
2005
“Mobilivre 2005″, traveling exhibition, Canada and USA.
“What the Book?”, Fisher Arts Center, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York.
2004
“What the Book?”, Flux Factory Gallery, New York, NY.
“The Post-It Show”, co-curator (with Mitzi Pederson) and participating artist, Playspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
“M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition”, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
“The Fourth Annual Monster Drawing Rally”, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA.
“Mobilivre 2004″, traveling exhibition, Canada and USA.
2003
“Neomu 6″, publication edited by Deanne Cheuk, Surfacepseudoart, New York.
“99 Bottles”, Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
“Magnify Sense”, Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
“Flat Constellations”, Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
“Selections: A Juried Exhibition by Arnold Kemp”, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA.
Interviews and press:
2011
“Arts in Review,” KALX Berkeley radio interview with Gregory Scharpen, April 1, 2009.
“SF MoMA’s Pop-Up Shop,” The Bold Italic San Francisco, February 2, 2011.
2009
“Arts in Review,” KALX Berkeley radio interview with Gregory Scharpen, November 8, 2009.
2008
“Experimental Exhibition Staged in 300-Year Old Japanese House.” Joyo Shinbun (Regional Japanese newspaper), November 8, 2008.
“International Residency Artists at Work in Traditional Japanese House.” Asahi Shinbun (National Japanese newspaper), November 6, 2008.
