L.A. ARTCORE PRESENTS

A GROUP EXHIBIT OF AN INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER WITH ARTISTS FROM JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES

TOYOKO KATSUMATA, ROBERT WALKER, MITSUNORI KURASHIGE, ARIMICHI IWASAWA

AUG. 17^TH- 31^ST, 2014

Reception – Sunday Aug 17^th

1 p.m. – 3 p.m. – Artcore Brewery Annex

Conversation With The Artist Series: 2 p.m.

L.A. Artcore Brewery Annex

LOS ANGELES, CA (July 22^nd, 2014) LA Artcore presents four artists whose work has in common strong relationships with the dreaming of reality and the physicality of materials.  They also share strong influences drawn from Japanese ways of thinking, producing artwork that is contemplative and strives to focus to an elegant and effective point.

Toyoko Katsumata creates sleek and modern sculptural installations that investigate and deconstruct the human body.  She seeks a balance between distance and disorienting intimacy by working with bare materials such as metal, plastic or water, placing them in interaction with the dimensions of a room, along with materials that mimic or focus on the organic flesh.   She creates combinations to evoke conflicting feelings of comfort, solitude, utility and confinement that relate to the experience of having a body.

Robert Walker has a track record of achieving the extraordinary, a consistent and changing practice using equal measures of complexity and reserve. Each work involves a physicality of effort while retaining an intuitive spirit, a balance of confidence and risk that achieves what may be the most desirable state in abstract art making.  Many artists settle into a signature style that defines the perimeter of their career, or have clear periods usually defined by a change in materials.  For Walker that bar is considerably raised, it is impossible to predict with each show precisely what form the work will take, but what can be expected is considered reworking, a flexible mind producing fresh, intelligent works again and again.

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Mitsunori Kurashige works in hard light, applying spare lines in geometric forms to outline, cross or define space.  A long career in large installation sculpture has brought the artist to the simplicity of the line, as employed with the minimal use of the powerful medium of light.  In work that speaks to any fan of native Californian work and its heritage of artists using light and space, Kurashige brings from Japan a universal mutual appreciation that knows no borders.

Arimichi Iwasawa produced video art installations that have reached a global audience, with a breakthrough exhibit at the Nagi MOCA in Okayama, Japan, where a pulsating LED form accompanied an epic screening of peaceful room swelling deep blue jellyfish alternating with hyper-realistic street interviews with Japanese women, shifting the feeling in the room and sweeping the viewer from one state of reflection to another.

Artist Reception:

Sunday Aug. 17^th, 2014, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Conversation With the Artist Series at 2 p.m.

L.A. Artcore Brewery Annex

650A S. Ave. 21., Los Angeles, CA 90031

Gallery hours: 12-5 p.m., Thu-Sun.

ABOUT L.A. ARTCORE

L.A. Artcore helps develop the careers of visual artists of diverse cultural backgrounds, bringing innovative contemporary art to the public, and provides educational programs by professional artists for people of all ages. For more information visit www.laartcore.org

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