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MAKI Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in the 3rd edition of Tokyo Gendai. The gallery will showcase five artists working across a broad range of media: Asami Kiyokawa, Jennifer Rochlin, Keisuke Tada, Takuro Tamura, and Shiori Tono.

Tokyo-based Asami Kiyokawa utilizes a distinct method of applying embroidery to photographs, fabric, books, and magazines to express the complex beauty of contemporary society while exploring new relationships between humans and their environment. Her work frequently integrates organic elements and allows visitors to experience heightened communion with their surroundings, particularly in an age when technological advancement and urbanization increasingly distance us from the natural world.

Los Angeles-based Jennifer Rochlin’s hand-sculpted clay vessels are painted with a wide range of motifs, anywhere from art historical and pop cultural references to more autobiographical chronicles of her personal life. The lush flora and fauna of California frequently make an appearance as manifestations of her daily observations and evince the artist’s adoration of nature’s enveloping beauty.

Aichi-based Keisuke Tada employs a unique, sculptural use of paint in works that question the very foundations of our universe—time, space, matter, and gravity—and how they transform and warp as they travel between physical and virtual dimensions. His Paintings of incomplete remains initially resemble old, weathered European landscape paintings, yet they are contemporary creations based on CGI-generated scenery; Tada deliberately ages the painted surfaces to depict a time and place that does not exist.

Tokyo-based Takuro Tamura exercises his keen observational skills, technical mastery, and playful sense of humor to explore the irony that pervades our relationship with nature. The artist’s sculptures combine plants with asphalt, alluding to environmental destruction while simultaneously recognizing nature’s tenacity and refusal to completely submit to human suppression.

Oita-based Shiori Tono confronts the fragility and elusiveness of memory by painting specific moments from her past, gradually filling in a latticed canvas with miniature abstract compositions that eventually merge into a single image. She often finds inspiration in photographs of landscapes and floral motifs, which she has taken herself. The distortions that emerge from her unique method emulate the way memories linger in our minds: fragmented, disjointed, and evanescent.

We look forward to seeing you at Booth C09.