Sat, Oct 19
|New York
form is emptiness/emptiness is form
Join us for the opening of our exhibition form is emptiness/emptiness is form, a new show of paintings by Sono Kuwayama.
Time & Location
Oct 19, 2024, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
New York, 170 Forsyth St, New York, NY 10002, USA
About the event
Known for her dedicated use of organic materials, in “form is emptiness/emptiness is form,” Sono Kuwayama utilizes handmade paints with natural earth pigments and plant pigments, encaustic beeswax, handspun plant dyed yarn, and handmade textile twine to create canvases that bridge the natural world and the interior world. As she says, “Sometimes colors speak, sometimes forms speak….listening into the void.”
The works are squares whose luminous surfaces flow over the edges with organic abandon. They are hung in sequences of two across and four- canvas grids, with bands of white wall showing between, or scattered across space, the squares spinning, wind-blown. A Kuwayama painting, then, is an individual canvas but also an aggregation. The canvases converse via continued or almost continued lines and shapes, so that abstractions allude to forms -- is that sun rising? is that peach ripe? Some canvases are literally connected by naturally hanging twine or yarn,…