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Art Miami 2005

May 16, 2005

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Yoshiaki Asai

Yoshiaki Asai focuses his attention on a series of character, from a sinister, yet wise old dog named Yatsu, to Sushe: a socially confused and very spoiled high school girl. Asai's characters live in a flat world, maintained by angular patterns and irregular edges. His palette is primal, and his narratives reactive or specific to his characters.

So What
oil on canvas
28 1/2" x 23 1/2"

Chaval

Chaval's two main, post chemical war mutants are Pipu, a miraculous mutant butterfly, and Pepo a happy-go-lucky subservient walking pet. these two creattures play out numerous, vaporous fantasies that take the viewer through every emotion from love to lamentation; to peril and peace. Chaval's objects, which run the gamut from punching bags to shaped canvases, are true and focused, and maintain a certain David Lynch-like feel.

Pipu in the Air
acrylic on canvas
46" x 46"

D. Dominick Lombardi

D. Dominick Lombardi's approach, which often takes on a cartoonish, Pop Surreal appearance, provides Lombardi with a somewhat universal language to express his concerns with human mutations. "We are always mutating," Lombardi says. "Extrapolating a bit, looking some 5,000 years in the future, I've created characters who bare the extreme modifications in their biology caused by man-made contaminants: tainted water, poplluted air, transgenetic food."

900-K
oil silkscreen on canvas
12" x 12"

Ninko Ouzou

Ninko Ouzou goes after the ultimate in cute. She sets her sights on a kinder, gentler kitsch, and turns it inside out. Ouzou's distilled palette and understated environments only intensify the gaze of her subjects, making them appear oddly forceful and controlling, while the heavily worked, painted and drawn surfaces compel onlookers to take a closer look.

Opening
acrylic on wood
39 1/2" x 31 1/2"

Hisao Sakai

Hisao Sakai makes altered, anxiety riddled self portraits. They suggest a sequential narrative, which forms a continuous saga of a small soulful world. The simplicity in Sakai's work does cause havoc, however - like a thorn on a rose. But like the promised scent of a rose, Sakai's characters compel viewers to come into their world, to experience a life filled with quirky, quiet eccentricities.

Fine Weather
acrylic on wood
24" x 29"

Savako

Savako makes bold, free standing sculptures which profess a retro, mid twentieth century futuristic view. Her subjects are aliens, living in an imagined Utopia, on a planet the artist has named Pajamaja. Her sculptures are humorous, curious and more than a bit suspicious. Their edginess creeps up on you, while their rich colors, and their sinuous and seductive surfaces prompt the most hardened, veteran gallery goer to smile.

Ganglibiums from the "Planet Pajamaja"
fiberglass and urethane paint

ART MIAMI 2005: THE FACTS

LOCATION

Miami Beach Convention Center
Hall D
1901 Convention Center Drive
Miami Beach, Florida

DATES AND TIMES

TICKET PRICES

$12 - General Admission
$9 - Students, Seniors, Groups
$30 - Permanent Pass
Free - Children under 12

For more information, please visit www.art-miami.com.