森羅万象Shinrabansho
Curated by Sophia Chizuco
1/27-2/28/2024
Welcome to “森羅万象(Shinrabansho)” a captivating art exhibition celebrating the inauguration of Yant Studio’s brand new space. Five local artists, originally from Argentina, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and US, in a symphony of creativity presenting diverse pieces encompassing paintings, prints, sculptures and installations. Witness the multiverse unfold through mediums like watercolor, acrylic, paper porcelain, fabric, and recycled materials, as these artists craft a visual tapestry that transcends boundaries.
At this exhibition, the allure of beauty intertwines with a distinct artistic sensibility. Explore from the beauty of nature to a whimsical journey through unique art pieces that invites audiences to revel in the joy and enchantment each creation imparts.
Featured artist:
Kay Sirikul Pattachote @kaysirikul
Lucia Warck-Meister @luciawarckmeister
Ming-Jer Kuo @mingjerkuo
Sophia Chizuco @sophiachizuco
THECOLORG @the.color.g
Yant Studio -Forest Hills
72-50 Austin Street, Forest Hills, NY, 11375
Kay Sirikul Pattachote
Bio
Sirikul Pattachote is a Thailand-born New York artist and designer. She earned her BFA from Silipakorn University of Art and Design (Bangkok). Her artwork is inspired by nature, where she draws upon memories and the experiences of her surroundings in everyday life. The ephemeral quality of life and matter is a central theme in her work. Through her paintings, she attempts to record and preserve certain memories and impressions that highlight the potential good that lies in everyone and everything.
STATEMENT
Kay Sirikul Pattachote's paintings utilize the abstracted forms of flowering plants as a vessel for channeling her daily meditations. These plant forms provide parameters for her interpretive brushwork and within them, she is able to record her experienced energies and emotions. Ritualistic actions, such as sewing and repetition, further her meditative practice and deepen her ability to record the ephemeral on her surfaces.
Lucia Warck-Meister
Bio
Lucia holds an MFA from UNA University Buenos Aires. Her works have been exhibited at the Palm Beach International Biennial, Florida; International Sculpture Exhibition Bellevue, WA; Museo del Barrio, New York; Museum of the Americas, Washington DC; NY; Miura Museum of Art, Matsuyama City, Japan; Briggens Museum, Bergen, Norway, DUMBO Arts Festival, New York; Deutsche Bank Foundation, New York; Piedmont Biennial, Torino, Italy; Latin American Triennial, New York, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, NY; Point of Contact Gallery Syracuse University. Her work is included in the collections of The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL; Marvin and Ruth Collection, Miami, FL; The Taplin Collection, Miami, FL; Royal Caribbean Art Foundation, Miami, FL; MEIAC –Museo Extremadura e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo-, Badajoz, Spain; Diego Rivera Mural Museum, DF, Mexico; Deutsche Bank Art Foundation; Fortabat Foundation, Buenos Aires; Telefonica Foundation. Artist residencies and awards include TransborderArt Governors Island, NY; Oolite, Miami; ISLA, Antofagasta, Chile; Sculpture Space, Utica, NY; School of Visual Arts New York; CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, France; NYFA’s Mentoring Program – New York.
Statement
I am interested in underlining the importance of building a collective memory without omissions that distort who we are and who we can become. Who we are depends greatly on what we remember and how we use those memories to build new narratives. Through memory, I explore ideas of identity, gender, transmission, and visibility.
I use fragmentation both stylistically and conceptually. There are traces, vestiges, and fragments. I focus on the value of each part. I assemble and recompose fragments to create a new whole defined by its components. Porcelain flowers and braids are embedded in cement tiles. The cement constrains them as it hardens, but their beauty emerges nevertheless. Other tiles show the residue of an organic form. Tree branches are covered by porcelain, changing their appearance. Layers of different materials accumulate like pages of a palimpsest. New narratives are created.
Sophia Chizuco
Bio
Sophia Chizuco is a multidisciplinary artist, art educator, curator, and funder of froggiesvillage in Brooklyn, born in Japan. She earned her B.A. in Art and Education from Tokyo Gakugei University. She also earned a certificate at the Art Students League of New York.
She was granted for Community Murals Project with NYC Health + Hospitals’ Arts in Medicine program, and SU-CASA. She held workshops at Museum of Jewish Heritage, NARS foundation, and Lewis Latimer House Museum. Chizuco had been a mentor at NYFA Immigrant Artist Program. Her image was selected for The Flag Project 2022, by Rockefeller Center collaboration with the Climate Museum and United Nations Environment Programme.
Statement
I am a multidisciplinary artist in Brooklyn, New York. I was born and raised in the countryside of Japan surrounded by mountains, green tea fields, and the Pacific Ocean. Influenced by organic materials and nature, I draw animals, lines and shapes mimicking natural elements and life such as the wind, plants and the ocean. For my abstract landscape, I use acrylic or oil on canvas. I transfer images of my memories into simple geometric shapes such as squares, circle or lines. Specially, I draw many circles influenced by Enso (Circle in Zen). The shape symbolizes life, sun, light, spirit, peace, infinity, interminable, perfection, and continuance for me.
THECOLORG
Bio
THECOLORG (b. 1991, Central PA) is a millennial feminine queer interdisciplinary artist and professional arts administrator based in Philadelphia, PA. She holds an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and a BFA from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. She has attended artist residencies at the Studios at MASS MoCA, Chautauqua Visual Arts, and the Walkaway House in North Adams, MA. Her work has been exhibited at many museums, galleries, and institutions across the country, including Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center (Smithsonian Institution), Moore College of Art & Design, Moravian University, Banana Factory Arts Center, Lycoming College Gallery, Atelier FAS Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Cherry Street Pier, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, the Erie Art Museum, and many more. Her current project "MOO-D" has been generously funded by The Puffin Foundation through their 2022 artist grant cycle. Ash serves as the Program Coordinator of Continuing Education at Moore College of Art & Design where she supports arts programming for youth and adults – centering inclusivity and accessibility in her approach to all parts of the role.
Statement
Teddy bears and stuffed decorative objects made by my memaw and great aunt line the shelves of my mom’s hutches, and throughout my childhood stuffed animals were my source of inspiration and play. Into adulthood, my history and connection with soft objects has become a way for me to express my concerns and ideas through soft sculpture, plush, and site-specific installations. My work bridges my childhood and adulthood experiences, often citing architecture as a metaphor for the expected rigidness of adulthood, and the soft work as the assumed pliability of childhood. By using materials associated with comfort and innocence to explore presented concepts, I aim to simultaneously create a sense of familiarity and of introspection.
Ming-Jer Kuo
Bio
Ming-Jer Kuo (born in Taipei, Taiwan) is a New York-based artist. He had worked as an environmental engineer for a decade and came to New York for art. Kuo graduated from MFA Photography, Video and Related Media at School of Visual Arts in NYC. He is a recipient of NYFA New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship in NYC, a member of The Elizabeth Foundation for The Arts Studio Program in NYC, and was awarded as Honorable Mention of Taoyuan Creation Award in Taoyuan, Taiwan. Kuo’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows of New York Hall of Science in NYC, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in NYC, QCC Art Gallery in NYC, EFA 20|20 Gallery in NYC, NARS Foundation in NYC, Trestle Gallery in NYC, Chashama Space in NYC, Gallery 456 in NYC, Longwood Art Gallery in NYC, Gallery Aferro and The 2 Gateway Center in Newark, NJ, Museum Jindřichohradecka in South Bohemia, Czech Republic, Gallery Sejul in Seoul, South Korea, and Fotoaura Institute of Photography in Tainan, Taiwan. He was an artist in residence at Governors Island with TAAC in NYC, NARS Foundation in NYC, and Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT.
Statement
Through photographic images and sculptural installations, my work celebrates the city, playing with perspective and scale to capture the complexity, mystery, and changing patterns of urban culture. To that end, distinctions between architecture, urban design, and street life are intentionally blurred and abstracted, and new perceptions of our environment emerge as viewers are encouraged to experience a new relationship to their surroundings: to create a living poetics of time and space.
