Ayako Kurihara “Mind Games”
HRD Fine Art
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After graduating from the oil painting department of the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Art and Music, Kurihara has been working with a variety of media including painting, photography, performance, and installation, always staying experimental and keeping herself free from conventions. This upcoming exhibition will showcase her trademark series titled “Mind Games,” which she has been working on for several years. Adopting the rules of a popular but simple board game called “Othello” or “Reversi,” she creates paintings by stamping circles of two different colors alternately, eventually filling up the painting surface (canvas, paper, or glass door, etc.). What made her come up with the idea of the board game/painting was her doubts about creating paintings, which requires a painter to arbitrarily “finish” somewhere along the way, hence involving a notion of control or self-expression. Exhibits will include works resulting from a game played electronically between the artist and her friend through the Internet using social network platforms, as well as those recreated from the outdoor installation work she made in the demilitarized zone in the Korean Peninsula. Through these works, we aim to provide small but interesting clues to the questions often asked, such as “What is painting?” “What is abstract painting?” and “What is it to paint a painting?”
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Schedule
from October 03, 2015 at 12:00 to November 28, 2015 at 20:00
Exhibition Hours: 12:00-20:00. Reservation required with the exception of Fridays and Saturdays.
Opening Reception on 2015-10-03 from 17:00