title of the show: Dog, Bus, Palm Tree,
date: February 12-March 19, 2011
venue: The Box, Los Angeles
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Main Gallery
1
title: Someone's junk is someone else's treasure.
year: 2011
material: Video installation, HD video, Two drawings(9"x12" each), Palm Fronds, Blanket
time: 11 minutes
size: Dimension variable
Location: PCC Flea Market
credit: Created with The Box, Los Angeles
note:
This project is refer to two historical works. one is David Hammons' Bliz-aard Ball Sale (1983), the artist was selling snow balls on the street in New York winter time. the other is legendary Japanese comic "Nowhere Man(Munou no hito)" by Yoshiharu Tsuge(1985), A cartoonist loosed his job and decided to sell stones at a river side. my question is how it would be in-between snow ball and stone? disappearing and existing, useless and functional, art and object, fabricate and found.
I rent a booth at a flea market in Los Angeles to sell palm fronds which is easily find out everywhere on a street. In the process of documenting people's reaction, I realized that I was selling an idea or an experience or a story through palm fronds.
2-1
title: A painting to public (Metro Bus Line 2, Los Angeles)
year: 2011
material: Acrylic Painting(22" x 28" x 3 1/4"), HD video, Bike, Wall mount
time: 2 minutes and 32 seconds
size: Dimension variable
credit: Created with The Box, Los Angeles
camera: Nao Hiro
Still: Kumie Tsuda
date: 12/28/2010
note:
An idea of how we show our art to public, which is normally related to a gallery space or public institutions. But when I looked around city facilities, there is many places where we might show something to public.
One day, I got on a bus with my painting tied up on my bike. The carrier of bike is located in front of a bus. it shows my painting to be heading to a Bus's direction.
2-2
title: A painting to public (SamTrans Bus Line 292, San Francisco)
year: 2011
material: Oil Painting(22" x 28" x 3 1/4"), Document photograph
size: Dimension variable
credit: Created with The Box, Los Angeles
camera: Tomo Saito
date: 12/23/2010
3
title: Showing objects to a dog
year: 2010
material: HD video, objects (broom, bucket, roll of craft paper, picket fence, handle, air filter, styrofoam cup, flash light, blue tarp, wood stick, toilet brush, pipe, cardboard box, paint roller, dish rack, rope), Wooden Structure
time: 3 minutes 56 seconds
size: Dimension variable
Production and commission: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
note:
I took care my friend's dog “Sheday” for six months while he was out of town. Named “Sheday,” The dog appeared curious about what I was doing. I captured his inquisitive reactions to common objects and materials as a way of rethinking how we “see” sculpture and derive a different criteria.
Basement
4
title: Take some plastic cups and just fall it down many times until all the cups standing up
year: 2006
material: HDV video, color, sound
time: 40 seconds
