Jack Hanley Gallery is pleased to present Jack & Venus, an exhibition of new operates by New York-dependent artist Susumu Kamijo. Jack & Venus spans throughout two galleries and will open concurrently at Venus In excess of Manhattan’s 55 Terrific Jones Street place. In this exhibition, Kamijo will exhibit a new collection of his signature poodle paintings. These daring and dynamic figures have formulated even more into abstraction which enables for the artist’s exploration of form, shade, and technique to stand out.
In this body of operate, Kamijo is focused on a few primary areas: the poodle’s experience, the landscape, and the overall composition of these features. When the poodle is the consistent matter of the paintings, the artist has produced it distinct that it is not the poodle itself that he is involved with but relatively the unexpected sorts that it can just take on. These new will work are cropped into a kind of portraiture- the viewer sees lips, teeth, and eyes gazing back at them serenely, joyfully, or fiercely. As the facial area is emphasised, the viewer is capable to take in the styles, colors, and lines, all coming collectively to signify the subject. Kamijo’s dynamic abstractions are even more complemented by the tender, rounded foliage of the landscapes they are settled in, as nicely as the smaller circles in the higher still left or correct corner, resembling the sun or the moon depending on their colour.
The artist’s expressive strategy is obvious throughout this sequence. Obvious brushstrokes and paint drips are well balanced by bold traces and styles. The repetition of imagery mixed with the unique evolution of fashion and strategy outcome in paintings that are at the moment familiar and fully new.
