Project Description

MASAE UEZUMI

Vernissage le 1er Juillet 18h – 21h

Foreword

Masae Uezumi’s recent work with its strong contours, and exquisitely hallucinatory handling of vermillion, rose and purple suggests a unity of vision, a world made whole. Yet it is also clear that we are being taken in by a field of projection (a vision of search, let us say) rather than by vision itself (that is, opticality). The artistfs restless exploration is amplified by the spectral flush her compositions suggestive of a reality that is always in flux within a flow of duration. If there is any constant to any of this, the artist seems to be intimating, it is to be intuited by each individual.

Any residual trace of nostalgia in Uezumifs vision is tinged with a degree of restless disaffection at the totalization of experience. Such subjective distress seems discordant with the decorative unity of the canvas. Still, such disjuncture only adds to the psychic pulse and the tremulousness of Uezumifs renditions of urban and the often-indeterminate suburban spaces of Paris and Provence.

Her recent work stresses seismic moments of sublime isolation and evacuation. The lived-world seems to drop off as a yawning oceanic tranquility abetted, somehow, by frenzy takes its place before us.

Perhaps we might look at the artistfs visionary renditions as recuperative flashpoints or imagistic triggers.

they bring home the desire to wrest time away from the intangible and the ephemeral and a concomitant human need to forestall the inevitability of change is made poignantly clear. While the sense of localized placelessnes bounded by the impossible surging of both rememoration and presentness are reflected through Masae Uezumifs pictorial efforts there is something more at stake here for her : willingness to risk sharing moments of intensity, longing and doubt. The past now finds its reanimation through the fierce mindfs eye of the artist.

– Dominique Nahas

Artworks

Biography

1972 B.F.A. Kyoto City University of Arts

Solo Exhibitions

2015 : “Masae Uezumi”, Galerie 89, Paris, Japan / “Air”, Gallery Shimada, Kobe, Japan
2013 : “Emotion”, Gallery EW, Seoul, Korea / “Aqua”, Galerie 16, Kyoto, Japan
2012 : “AQUA, Adria”, LADS Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2010 : “Paris & Provence”, Imazu Sun Bridge Hotel Gallery, Shiga, Japan
2010 : “Santa Fe”, Ashiya City Library Entrance, Ashiya, Japan
2009 : “Key West”, Gallery Shimada, Kobe, Japan
2008 : “Paris & Provence”, LADS Gallery, Osaka, Japan / “Paris & Provence”, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2007 : “Santa Fe”, Imazu Sun Bridge Hotel Gallery, Shiga, Japan
2006 : “Santa Fe”, Galerie Siret, Paris, France
2005 : “Santa Fe”, Gallery Chayamachi, Osaka, Japan / “New York”, Galerie Siret, Paris, France
2004 : “Santa Fe”, Gallery Shimada, Kobe, Japan / “Santa Fe”, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2003 : “Philadelphia”, Gallery Chayamachi, Osaka, Japan / “from New York”, Gallery YU, Kamakura, Japan
2002 : “Recent Work”, A.Jain Marunouchi Gallery, New York, N.Y / “from New York”, Imazu Sun Bridge Hotel Gallery, Shiga, Japan
2001 : “from New York 2001”, TOR Gallery(Gallery Shimada organized), Kobe, Japan

2000 : “Door and Window, N.Y.”, Gallery Chayamachi, Osaka, Japan / “Door and Window, N.Y.”, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1999 : “from New York”, TOR Gallery(Kaibundo Gallery organized), Kobe, Japan
1998 : “Recent Paintings”, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1997 : “The Central Park Trees, N.Y.”, Ashiya City Woman’s Center, Ashiya, Japan / “The Central Park Trees, N.Y.”, Gallery Chayamachi, Osaka, Japan / “Recent Work“, Cast Iron Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1992 : Tawara Museum Gallery, Ashiya, Japan
1981 : Gallery Mitsuwa, Osaka, Japan
1980 : Gallery Shiroi-Atelier, Kobe, Japan

Group Exhibitions

2014, 2013, 2012 : “SILENT@KCUA”(The Exhibition of Charity ; Tohoku earthquake), Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery @kcua, Kyoto, Japan
2013, 2012, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 : “Miniature Kobe Exhibition”, Gallery Shimada, Kobe, Japan
2012 : “Park Fine Art Internatiomal Tour Show –CHINA – KOREA –TURKEY – USA ”
2011 : “Park Fine Art Internatiomal Tour Show – USA – CHINA – KOREA”
2011 : (June & July) “Japanese & German Contemporary ART”, Galerie DEN, Berlin, Germany
2011 “Neu Kunstmarkt Art -Zen”, Galerie Blumeninsel, Basel, Switzerland
2010 “Art Santa Fe 2010”, Convention center, Santa Fe, USA

2010 : “Art Fair of the Alumni of Kyoto City University of Arts”, Miyako Messe, Kyoto,Japan / “Art Liaison Group Show”, A.Jain Marunouchi Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2009 : “Gallery Shimada Exhibition”, Gallery Shimada, Kobe, Japan
2007 : “Gallery Artists Summer Group Show”, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2001 : “Art 2001”, A.Jain Marunouchi Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2000 : “Art 2000”, A.Jain Marunouchi Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1974 -1971 : (every year) “The NIKA Exhibition”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, & Osaka Municipal Museum, “The KANSAI-NIKA Exhibition”, Kyoto Municipal Museum, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Japan

Public & Private Collections

Ashiya City Mayor’s room, Hyogo, Japan The Board of Education of Ashiya City, Hyogo, Japan
Ashiya City Hamakaze Elementary School, Hyogo, Japan
ARKACE Co., Ltd. Osaka, Japan CHIYODA KOGYO Co.,Ltd. Osaka, Japan
MIYAZAKI CONSTRUCTION Co., Ltd. Hyogo, Japan
Private Collections : in USA(New York, Seattle, Santa Fe), Korea(Seoul), & Japan

Other Activities

2014 : Group Show of Uezumi Atelier “Show of The Artists born of Uezumi Atelier”, TOR Gallery, Kobe, Japan
2009 : Group Show of Uezumi Atelier “Show of Enjoyable Associates of Uezumi Atelier”, Gallery & Café Liberal, Ashiya, Japan
2001 : The 30th Anniversary Exhibition of Children’s Art of Ashiya Junior Art Education Society, Ashiya City Museum Gallery, Ashiya, Japan

1996 – 2000 : The Exhibition and Charity Activity of “Children’s Paintings of the Kobe Earthquake” in Japan, (Ashiya, Okayama, Kobe-Rokko, Osaka, Toyonaka, Kobe – Phoenix Plaza, Kishiwada, kobe – Hyogo Prefectural Art Museum)
1996 : Publishes charity postcards for supporting children in Ashiya City who lost their parents by the quake
1995 : (Sep.~Dec.) Organizes and executes the exhibition of “Children’s Paintings of the Kobe Earthquake” in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Teaching Experience

2014 : Presented a lecture titled “The Art & The Architecture in Switzerland” at The Rotary Club in Oyodo.
2013 : Presented a lecture titled “My works & My Artist activities” at Dankook University, Korea
2011 : Presented a lecture titled “My Exhibitions in overseas” at The Rotary Club in Oyodo & Nakanosima.
2002 : Presented a lecture titled “My Exhibitions in New York” at The Cross-Industrial Association ” Dankai Club”, Japan
1999 : Presented a lecture titled “The Exhibition of Children’s Paintings of the Kobe Earthquake in New York” at the Association of Art Education of Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan
1993 : Presented a lecture titled “The World of Child Paintings” at the Association of Art Education of Kyoto City University of Arts,Japan
1972-1974 : Lecturer of the Elementary School of Obayashi Seishin Institute,Takarazuka, Japan
1972-1974 : Lecturer of the Elementary School of attached to Kinki University, Osaka,Japan

1971 : Founded and teaches at “Masa Kodomo Atelier” (Now: Ashiya Junior Art Education Society), an art studio for children, Suita, Japan. Present Teaches in Ashiya City. (for 44 years)

Publications

2013 : “Masae Uezumi -Emotion-”, Exhibition Catalog by Gallery EW, Seoul, Korea
2012, 2011 : “International Tour Show -2012”, & -2011, Exhibition Catalog by Park Fine Art, N.M., USA
2011 : “ART ZEN” Exhibition Catalog by Gallery DEN, Berlin / “ITS 31st ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION ART 2011” Catalog by A.Jain Marunouchi Gallery, N.Y.
2008 : “Masae Uezumi” –Paris & Provence – Exhibition Catalog by Walter Wickiser Gallery, N.Y.
2007 : “Gallery Artists Ⅳ” Exhibition Catalog by Walter Wickiser Gallery, N.Y.
2005 : “Challenging Artists, My Acquaintance—” in an independent book ” Invitation to Art ” by Masao Shiratori, Published by Godo Shoin, Japan
2004 : “Masae Uezumi –Santa Fe – “ Exhibition Catalog by Walter Wickiser Gallery, N.Y.
2001 : “Art 2001” Exhibition Catalog & Calendar by A.Jain Marunouchi Gallery, N.Y.
2000 : “Art 2000” Exhibition Catalog & Calendar by A.Jain Marunouchi Gallery, N.Y. / “ Masae Uezumi –Door and Window, N.Y.–Exhibition Catalog by Walter Wickiser Gallery
1998 : Masae Uezumi, “The World of Child Paintings” A paper in the Bulletin of Association of Art Education of Kyoto City University of Arts. Japan

Bibliography

115 articles, from Jun.19.1981 to May.8. 2015, (in USA, France, & Japan) / Yomiuri America, Asahi Shimbun International, OCS news, Mid America Guide IL, “OVNI” / SHUKAN NEW YORK SEIKATSU, / Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shinbum, Sankei Shimbun, Yomiuri Shimbun, Kobé Shimbun, Nihonkeizai shimbun, Ashiya City Public Information / Magazines ”Kansai Time Out”, “KOBEKKO”, “Gekkan Galarie”, “Art Santa Fe 2010”Catalog,

9 TV news, from Dec.1.1994 to Jun.18.1996(USA & Japan) / Fuji Sankei TV, CNN International / NHK TV, Asahi TV, Kansai TV, Mainichi TV, Yomiuri TV, Cable TV Ashiya