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Colors – Art Works by Takashi Harada
September 18, 2019 - November 3, 2019
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See a unique vision of nature through the paintings of Japanese “Nihonga” artist, Takashi Harada, and learn more about the beauty and craft of this style of Japanese art that is often characterized by the use of natural pigments derived from minerals, shells, corals, and even semi-precious stones, along with the use of “sumi” ink, wood, silk, and paper.
Artist Statement
I believe that all the natural things include human beings have a sort of common structure form, and each of them exist having the equal value of a molecule or an atom.
It is my opinion that when we as humans place our body among all natural things, such as rocks, air, water and other living organisms, the information for existing as a living thing is recorded inside of the body, and part of our essence dissolves into the natural object – becoming a part of it. I want to create artworks that can evoke such a feeling.
Biography
Takashi Harada is a Japanese Painting (Nihonga) artist and currently lives and works in Manhattan, NY. He was born in a small porcelain-making town, Arita, Saga, in Japan.
After completing the PhD program of the Graduate School of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (currently Tokyo University of the Arts) without a dissertation in 1998, he moved out from Japan. Since then he had stayed in Germany, France, and Canada, before arriving in U.S in 2001. He was granted fellowship “Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists” from the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunkacho), Japanese Government in 2005. He has been exhibiting his artworks in Japan and US numerous times over 30 years.
Staying outside of Japan made him to face the identity of himself being Japanese, and at the same time, it gave him opportunities to contemplate about the connection between human beings and other natural matters while collecting the images of nature in other countries.
He is represented by Scott White Contemporary Art in San Diego, California and has had many Solo and Group shows. Most recently he had a solo exhibition at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood, Manhattan in New York City in 2018.
www.takashiharada.com | @studiotakashiharada
Meet the Artist! Join us for a reception with Mr. Harada on October 3, 7-9pm.
On exhibition through November 3, 2019 at 181 Cabrini @ 854 W 181st St. All Works for Sale. Curated by Inwood Art Works.
