111230. Year End.

As the Year 2011 comes to a close, New York is witnessing some unusually warm highs and quite a terrific weather of spring like conditions in the morning and looks like cloudy as I write. I just got an email from a good friend , Yuri Shimojo, with a message of hope for 2012. I think what she is saying is so awesome, I wanted to share it with you.



Painting is by master Yuri Shimojo.
"Voices from 2011"




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Dearest friends and families

As year of 2011 is closing I'd like to express my heartfelt gratitude and love to you

This global upheaval year has brought many of us to face inner revolution
Our mother land guided us one of the big examples too
2011 became the year zero for me as Japanese and as an artist

May all humans can appreciate what we learned from 2011 when we look back year of zero one day

May all humans can live in peaceful coexistence with nature on beautiful earth one day

I painted this piece this year with my prayers
dedicating for children

May all your prayers and dreams you manifested this year will seed, root and bloom
2012

The year of the shift

Warmly open to the beautiful light


Happy New Year !


LOVE

Yuri Shimojo

110704. Sephora Shoot in willy B

This is a group shot of an upcoming 3D Sephora Shoot directed by David Ellis. It is an all women artist shoot with the likes of Maya Hayuk, Sasu of Hitotsuki, Yuri Shimojo and several other artist ladies! It was apparently 6 Days of madness and we even managed to squeeze in a few Barnstormers for the first 3D time lapse excercise. It was so cool to have the japanese contingency arrive in New York to make this shoot happen. I was not involved but I was there to support and cheer them on in their endeavours! The stuff that comes off live is going to be absolutely bananas. In2 dimension its sick.. in 3D... BONKERS! A great time by all!!!

On the plane from Japan was also Naomi Kazama who went and did some live screenprinting for his group called Strange! Look for him in a town nearest you!

Barnstormers in NYC art SHOW!!!! March 18, 2010

Barnstormers and extended family of barnstormers is going to have an official art show at joshuaLinerGallery.com from march 18th until april 17, 2010.
There are the japanese Barnstormers flown in from Japan and the Crew Re-Connecting! This show is going to be great!! Please come for the opening or just for a look see!!!

envisioning diaspora 090304

BOOK TALK AND CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR ALEXANDRA CHANG

THURSDAY
MARCH 5, 2009
6:00-8:00 PM
A/P/A Insitute
41-51 East 11th Street
7th Floor Gallery
FREE to the public.
RSVP by March 4, Wednesday
to apa.rsvp@nyu.edu
or 212-992-9653.
For more info or to
RSVP online, visit www.apa.nyu.edu.

The talk will be followed by a conversation with Alexandra Chang

and artists featured in the book:
ON megumi Akiyoshi • Tomie Arai • Bing Lee • Ken Chu • Che Jen
Skowmon Hastanan • Arlan Huang • Chris Mendoza
Mike Ming • Athena Robles

Author of the new book Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Arts Collectives
(Timezone 8 Limited and project partner A/P/A Institute at NYU) and A/P/A Institute Director
of Public Programs and Research Manager, Alexandra Chang investigates “Asian American
Art through the formation, membership and artwork of three important post-’90s Asian
American artist collectives: Godzilla: Asian American Art Network, Godzookie and the
Barnstormers.