July 23, 2025
Author: kazukohy
July 3, 2025
Akemi Takeda
FALLOUT SHELTER
July 15 – August 11, 2025
Gallery Talk: Saturday, Aug 9, 14:00–15:00
Akemi Takeda, Rev. Dr. TK Nakagaki, Shinji Harada
Akemi Takeda came to New York from Japan in 1976. She began representing anti-nuclear appealing works after being inspired by fallout shelter signs scattered in the warehouse district of SoHo, where she moved in 1979. Since creating silkscreen printed photo collage “Fallout Shelter” in 1985, her motifs have expanded to include atomic bombings, nuclear testings, and nuclear power plants. This exhibition features 12 pieces (2019–2025) among the series that combines thermal transfer printing with drawing, which is her retrospective result of pursuing creation for decades.
Biography (En & Jp)
Flyer (En & Jp)
NAGASAKI PEACE MUSEUM (Admission Free)
7-15 Matsugaemachi, Nagasaki 850-0921
Hours: 10:00~17:30 (8/11: to 14:00)
Closed: Tue 7/22, Mon 7/28, Mon 8/4
Image: Fallout Shelter Signs, 2021, thermal transferred photo collage, graphite, color pencil on paper, 22 x 22 in (559 x 559 mm) ©Akemi Takeda
June 6, 2025
Vassilina Dikidjieva
METROPOLIS
June 24 – July 12, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 26, 6-8 pm
Vassilina Dikidjieva (b. in Bulgaria) studied architecture in the Higher Institute of Civil Engineering in Sofia, Bulgaria, and graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute, Russia. With her career as a professional architect, she worked in Bulgaria, Ethiopia and New York. She currently lives and works in New Jersey, USA.
“The masterfully rendered figures, some of them paraphrases of well-known classical works, intentionally span the height and width of the entire paintings – the city with its roofs, towers and windows dominates in the composition, but the incorporeal human forms dominate in their scale. It seems to me that this intentional inversion of the scale of the human against the city is one of the greatest distinctions of Vassilina’s creative work.” [Ventzislav Iliev] The full text here
Noho M55 Gallery
548 West 28th St #634 New York, NY 10001 917 675 6884
Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm
Image: Metropolitan XI – Olympia NY, Oil on linen, 24 x 36 inches, 2024
March 17, 2025
燦 SAN 2025
SIACCA ADVENTURE-ART NEW YORK
April 5–12, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 5, 5–7pm
Award Ceremony: High-ranking three artists
Performance: Magda Chiarelli, Hitoshi Tomotaki
Makoto Anazawa • Kumiko Andoh • Nilmini Bandara • Magda Chiarelli • Fumihisa Endo • Minoru Gondo • Hikaru • AKIKO IGA • Kenichi Inoue • Takako ISOMURA • Tomoko Katou • Tetsuo Kimura • KOSHO • KOTOBUKI • Yahoko Miura • Kaoru Okuda • Saboco Ono • WEST OTAKE • Masayoshi Otake • IKUKO OZAKI • Akiko Siacca • Hitoshi Tomotaki • Shigemi Uematsu • Sawako Watanabe • Kumiko YAMADA • YU-KI
Guest Artists: Sonosuke Yukichika • and from New York: Silvia Aviles • Ayako Bando • Christopher Craig • Vassilina Dikidjieva • Miho Hiranouchi • Elisabeth Page Purcell
Go to Photos
Video at the reception
Gallery Max New York
552 Broadway, Suite 401, New York, NY 10012
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, Noon to 6pm
SIACCA Adventure-Art New York ©2025 • http://www.instagram.com/gallerysiacca • siaccaohki@gmail.com
Image (detail): Akiko Siacca • Curated by Kaz at http://www.ArtSpheres.org
March 12, 2025
MARIKO KUZUMI
Backyard Beings & Beyond
April 2 – May 12, 2025
Opening Reception
Wednesday, April 2, 5–7 PM
INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF CCCS
80 Maiden Lane, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10038
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 11am–5pm
Image: Five snails, 2025, Etching, 4.5 x 10 inches ©Mariko Kuzumi
January 30, 2025
Miho Hiranouchi
INSIDE MY ZEN GARDEN 枯山水
February 19 – April 1, 2025
Opening Reception
Wednesday, Feb 19, 5–7 PM
INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF CCCS
80 Maiden Lane, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10038
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 11am–5pm
Image: Dreaming Seed, 2024, Acrylic, charcoal on canvas, 20 x 24 inches ©Miho Hiranouchi
January 7, 2025
Fourth Annual Exhibition
NY CONNECTION 2025
January 20 – January 25
Opening Reception: Mon. Jan 20, 5-7pm (Tokyo)
Silvia Aviles • Ayako Bando • Max Fujishima • Ayakoh Furukawa-Leonart • Miho Hiranouchi • Yumiko Hirokawa • Kumi Hirose • Kunio Izuka • Atsuko Kawai • Ayane Kurai • Clarita Liepolt • Tokoha Matsuda • Mieko Mitachi • Miki Nagano • Yasuko Okumura • Yupin Pramotepipop • Elisabeth Page Purcell • Akemi Takeda • Kazuko Uchida • YUKAKO
Gallery SIACCA
Ginza 2-9-16-BF, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061
Hours: Mon–Fri 12–7pm • Sat 12–5pm
December 22, 2024
KUNIO IZUKA
SERIES OF LINOCUTS
quoted from fairy tales by Kenji Miyazawa
January 2 – 26, 2025
After searching the most effective way to appeal for peace to the world, Kunio Izuka (1939-2020) finally achieved his solo exhibition WHERE ARE WE GOING? (1995) at the United Nations on the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombings. But holding the exhibition at United Nations was indeed a difficult journey. While fretting about his ambitious plan and wondering how human beings can get along and maintain peace, the poem Izuka had learned in elementary school and the name of poet Kenji Miyazawa suddenly came to mind. He read Miyazawa’s books again with fascination, selected 10 of his wonderful fairy tales, and made them into prints, which saved him from setbacks and confusion, and impelled him to continue to appeal for peace to people on the planet.
Biography (En & Jp)
Flyer (En & Jp)
NAGASAKI PEACE MUSEUM (Admission Free)
7-15 Matsugaemachi, Nagasaki 850-0921
Hours: 10:00~17:30 (1/2: from 12:00, 1/26: to 14:00)
Closed: Mon 1/6, Tue 1/14, Mon 1/20
Image: Cello Player, 1996, linocut on washi, 16 x 12 inches ©Kunio Izuka
December 10, 2024
Ayako Bando
MEMORIES OF LIGHT
December 18 – February 18, 2025
Opening Reception
Wednesday, Dec 18, 5–7 PM
INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF CCCS
80 Maiden Lane, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10038
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 11am–5pm
Images, from left: Shinning Now, 2024, 13 x 9 in, Solvent transfer and soft pastel on washi
Joyful Harmony, 2024, 7 x 5 in, Solvent transfer, soft pastel and collage on washi ©Ayako Bando
November 20, 2024
