YASHAR GALLERY

 

OPENING

 

UPFRONT

 

FRIDAY MAY 17 6-8PM 

PAINTINGS BY CORI FORSTER

 

 

FRIDAY APRIL 19  6-9PM

(Concurrent with Greenpoint Gallery Night)

www.greenpointgalleries.org
 

CROCHET LUMINARIES

BY

TARYN URUSHIDO 
www.tarynurushido.com

Taryn's aesthetic is heavily influenced by both the Arizona desert landscape of her childhood and Japanese traditional elements that have been introduced to her by her husband’s family. As each textile is crafted, it becomes balanced and naturally reminiscent of the two worlds, creating a harmonious, wabi-sabi style.

Crochet Luminaries continue Taryn’s aesthetic of crocheting with hand cut or ripped materials to reveal the raw beauty of the raw exposed “modernized yarns”. Wooden structures have been designed to mimic Japanese lanterns mixed with link-in-logs. The details are subtle, but the warm lighting and airy design may put you in a trance as the intention is to add calm and serenity to your space.

Save the Date:
Greenpoint Gallery Night 
April 19th, 2019 • 6-9pm

Free & open to the public: The 14th edition of Greenpoint Gallery Night, a twice-a-year gallery crawl highlighting exhibition spaces throughout Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Select neighborhood galleries and businesses that feature art will be participating on Friday, April 19th, from 6-9pm. Come join us in celebrating the diverse and unique art scene in this corner of Brooklyn.

Some highlights include:
"The Universe, How Vast, How Small", a group exhibition at Areté featuring Caroline Blum, Paula Cahill, Goldie Gross, Jeong Hur, Joe Piscopia and Katrina Slavik, & curated by Fay Ku;  recent mixed media works by Upstate-based artist Gail Peachin at Dandelion Wine;  G-Spot Presents: "What Time Is It?", a group show celebrating 4/20 at Brooklyn Safehouse;  Calico has new works by featured artist, Steph Becker;  Plexus Projects presents "Vitrine", the first in a series of video projections in its storefront window viewed from the street - curated by artist Laura Splan;   

Opening reception at Yashar Gallery for "Crochet Luminaries", a solo exhibition of recent works by Taryn Urushido inspired by a mix of Japanese lanterns and paper bag luminaries ...and more!
 

Visit www.greenpointgalleries.org for more information.

Participating locations for 4/19 include:
Areté Venue and Gallery - 67 West St suite 103
Brouwerij Lane - 78 Greenpoint Ave
Calico Brooklyn - 67 West St suite 203
Dandelion Wine - 153 Franklin St
Dusty Rose - 67 West St suite 216
G-Spot popup @ Brooklyn Safehouse - 120 Franklin St
Imagic Studio - 937 Manhattan Ave
Plexus Projects - 198 Greenpoint Ave
Yashar Gallery - 276 Greenpoint Ave

Afterparty at The Diamond (43 Franklin St) beginning at 9pm with happy hour specials extended 9pm-11pm!

Click map below to open a custom Google Map of participating locations:

See you then!
Scott Chasse, Organizer
www.greenpointgalleries.org

YASHAR GALLERY

PAUL WHATLING

Paintings

"ALIEN HAMPSHIRE LULLABY"

March 19-April 7th

 

 

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OPENING WEDNESDAY FEB 6 -- 7-10PM

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Natsumi Goldfish
Window Mereology

September 27, 2018 ~ October 17, 2018
Opening Reception: September 27 (Thur.) 6~9PM

Gallery Hours: By Appointment Only

Yashar Gallery proudly presents a solo exhibition by a contemporary Japanese visual artist Natsumi Goldfish entitled “Window Mereology”, with an opening on September 27, 2018. Mereology (from the Greek μερος, ‘part’) is the theory of parthood relations: of the relations of part to whole and the relations of part to part within a whole.¹ This exhibition focuses on one of Natsumi Goldfish's ongoing series, Window paintings made between Tokyo and New York City in 2017 to 2018. The exhibition will open on September 27, 2018, and it is on view by appointment through October 17, 2018.

A window is an opening and a surface that shows the most private and personal space in our mind and in real everyday life. A window exists as a connection one to another, inside to outside, you and me. A window is a place you see, a window is also a place where you are seen. A window is a connection and thus the most sensitive and fragile aspect of a space. Do those “sides” really exist, or do they exist only in our minds? A window connects and separates space at the same time, it only depends on how we understand the space, from small personal events that occur to individuals' mundane world, to the major current social or political issues, that they are all happening in the space. Even if we are not aware about everything happening, we are affected by them and we are affecting them to be happening. A small minimal unseen personal act influences the collective whole as society. We all know one way that a window changes a space, as a passage for the sunlight, it enables interior plants to grow. 

 

Natsumi Goldfish's window paintings are about nonverbal communications between two sides. As most of her works are conscious of their surroundings and audiences, the window series also carries the facet. A window is like a surface of a pond in nature that captures aquatic animals and terrestrial animals. A view from a window is common property for everyone there. It captures, displays and mirrors the habits, behaviors and curiosity of human beings. A window brings us security and insecurity against potential harm from external forces. It gives us partial and mostly visual information of the things of outside. At the same time, a piece of thin glass is too fragile to protect us from exterior dangers. However, windows are still present, from official residences, presidential palaces, to urban and rural houses of citizens around the world. A window is evidence and confirmation of our inborn nature to be connected to the rest of the world. Architecture can be seen as a material incarnation of values, economy, ideologies and what we are as societies and individuals. Natsumi Goldfish's window paintings, are a metaphor of architecture as mind, art, our deep thoughts, communication and structuring ideas. A window is a source of awareness. From both sides, a view from a window is the closest experience of another world, one that also displays reflection of ourselves in it. Sometimes the reflection of oneself is very subtle, sometimes it is bold like a fine mirror. In reality we are part of what we see, the world, and each of us affects the world we see today to look like what it looks like. What we can see “outside” is also about each of us and part of us, at some level, but we are only barely aware of the world we are born, raised and grew up, and someday will lay dying in.

Natsumi Goldfish writes “One day I realized that I must paint windows, when I realized that my attachment to the window was my attachment to the world, to the society, to the people. It was difficult to prove but I was surely an extension of them as they are of me. It was when I was cat sitting at a friend's place on a ground floor of a historical apartment in center city, Philadelphia, I was half naked, a very sunny summer day. I felt something, and I looked outside the large open window. There was a stranger, a man curiously looking inside. Cat in my arms and I stared at him still and quietly, but he did not know. He did not find my nor my cat's gaze. He could perhaps feel us but saw nothing sharp from outside, unlike the same window at night when it shows everything much clear with the lighting. I was witnessing his pure curiosity for a few seconds. It was the human curiosity I saw through his eyes. It was an intimidating experience for me that I almost felt like the stranger had access to witness my inner cells growing. In Tokyo windows were much unfortified, and often kept opened or unlocked. I used to forget to bring the door key with me, but I always knew one of the windows was open. It used to be at least. Even if there were not much going on to see, I could always hear my neighbors, children running, vacuuming, a murmur, or faint music from open windows. I could always feel signs of life, daily life noises and smells. One thing it is universal, cats are always looking out the windows.”

 

Natsumi Goldfish is a contemporary Japanese artist based in New York City. Natsumi Goldfish grew up in the fringe of Tokyo, a place of between of all, where nature and urban culture, and many different elements coexisted. The environment inspired and educated her to believe in pluralism, or something close to the idea of being between and both, which is an important element in her creation. In 2011 she moved to the United States. In 2013, she received her B. A. in Art from Tyler School of Art. Natsumi Goldfish primary works with oil painting. Her creation is based on her interest in conscious and unconscious human behaviors seen in the history as well as in her ordinary life.

www.natsumigoldfish.com 

info@natsumigoldfish.com 

@natsumigoldfish