art Basel MiaMi Beach & art weeK 2010 November 29 – December ...

conteMporary asian art exhiBition
Mandarin Oriental, Miami and Art Miami invite you to explore the exhibition in the hotel lobby created by Brian Dursum, Director and
Curator of the University of Miami’s Lowe Art Museum featuring the works of many popular Asian artists.
alex guofeng cao
ChinaSquare Gallery
New York, New York
Alex Guofeng Cao came to New York
searching for his pursuit and came upon
photography, which quickly became his
passion. Inspired by such masters as Irving
Penn, Richard Avedon, Edward Weston,
and Robert Mapplethorpe, Cao ceaselessly
studied and experimented with all methods
and techniques in photography. While
adept with color, Cao’s preferred medium
is the black and white image. Cao’s deep
fascination with the subtle gradations of
tone between the deep black and the stark
white are the generators for all the colors
he needs to create his world.
jaehyo lee
Alphabet Tower,
2010
105˝ high ×
25 1/ 2˝ wide × 25 1/ 2˝ deep
charred wood and burnished nails
Jaehyo lee
Cynthia – Reeves Gallery
New York, New York
Jaehyo Lee works in natural materials and steel,
as his primary media. His most spectacular
works, like the Alphabet Tower on display at
the Mandarin Oriental, incorporate highly
burnished, bent steel nails that form complex,
articulated patterns against the velvet black
of charred wood. This astoundingly difficult
process results in works of a sinuous, elegant
line and intricate detail—some of which are
wall-based or floor-based and some of which
are objects intended for use as functional
art. He continues this inquiry in his wood
sculptures: wooden spheres and conical pillars
that are often monumental in scale.
fuJiMura
Dillon Gallery
New York, New York
Makoto Fujimura is a leading contemporary
Nihonga artist with paintings included in the
collections of every major museum in Japan,
and he received a museum retrospective in
Tokyo before he was forty. Born in the United
States but with deep roots in both Western
and Asian art, he spent his early years in
Japan and retuned as a postgraduate on
a Japanese governmental scholarship
to study Nihonga at the famed Tokyo
University of Fine Art. Due to graduating
with his MFA as the 1st in his class he was
offered an apprenticeship with the master
painter Kayama to pursue his doctoral
studies (awarded 1992) under Kayama’s
tutelage. Encouraged by Kayama’s open
mindedness and encouragement, Fujimura
was able to experiment with the Nihonga
tradition, achieving a synthesis between
his outsider point of view and classical
Japanese painting. With a particular affinity
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for the metaphysical aspects of abstract
expressionism and color field painting,
Fujimura’s art is also grounded in a deep
religious faith. In 2002 Fujimura was given
a Presidential appointment to the National
Council on the Arts.
KozaKi
Dillon Gallery
New York, New York
Since winning the UBS Art Award
from London’s White Chapel Gallery
in 2000, Kouzaki’s work has been
exhibited internationally. He is included
in the Fukushima Museum, the Koriyama
Museum, and the Futyu Museum in Japan.
Using traditional Nihonga materials (ground
mineral pigments with gold and silver leaf)
as the medium, Kouzaki experiments with
the addition of foil molds, adding a new level
of innovation to this centuries old technique.
He has received numerous awards and
critical recognition for his innovative
approach to the Nihonga movement.
Kouzaki utilizes many compositional
devices, combining parts of animals and
plants to create his unique vision.
The artist sees this concept of
combination as indispensable to advances
in science and industry, and by artistically
depicting ourselves transformed into bizarre
characters, helps to create a loss of selfidentity.
Strange creatures, from frolicking
birds and animals to the rearrangement
of DNA, are presented alongside various
objects of advanced technology.
chul hyun-ahn
C. Grimaldis Gallery
Baltimore, Maryland
A pillar of the contemporary resurgence