Saks Fifth Avenue, Show Window

Where: Saks Fifth Avenue
What: Spring clothes show window display

I must say Japanese department stores are so much more fun than American ones (Japanese department stores sell great foods, sweets, they have floors for restaurants, they offer entertainment, they even have bookstores inside...you can get anything you need!), but NY upscale department stores do great displays each season on the windows. It is not really art shows, but I think it worth showing here...

Jil Sander

  Fendi

Diane von Furstenberg

Among those, I really liked Fendi style.

Seems like this spring 1) color (vivid or bold) 2) Maxi length (super-long skirts) 3) loose fit dress or shirts w/ belt, are hot items. I also see a lot of pastel pink and nude shades. I am so tired of winter clothes now, I cannot wait to see all the spring dresses in the city!

NY Gallery Visit (4)

This is the last one and probably my other favorite of the night.

 5) Rimi Yang "Solo Show"
Stricoff Fine Art, March 3-15

Rimi Yang

Yang is California based artist. I could not find detailed background of her, but apparently she became professional painter rather recently---however, her painting shows she have very highly trained artist. I love the sophisticated and balanced coloring in the picture, and the twist to the classic looking pictures. I saw the pictures show a elegant rottenness of classic times/culture/paintings...  the original artworks looks a lot better than pictures, please check out the link if you are interested in.

NY Gallery Visit (3)

Here are my most favorite ones of the night.

4) Tara Donovan "Drawings (pins)"
The Pace Gallery, Feb 12-March 19, 2011

Donovan was one of more established artists for this night's gallery visit. These artworks above are made by collection of pins. By carefully choosing the density and location of pins, she created beautiful illusions. The pins reflects rights and create some sparkles, it was  very beautiful.

According to my research (aka Wikipedia), Donovan is born 1969, she is from NY, living in Brooklyn. She waited tables at restaurant while working her arts for long time, and she became big name by her show in NY in 2003. She uses materials like pins and scotch tapes to create large scale sculptures. This time it was pin, I am interested in seeing her other  works. Her work is bought by Met. Impressive....

NY Gallery Visit (2)

3) Matrix of the Mind: Contemporary Fine Art by Japanese Artists
Agora Gallery, March 1-22 2011

(the top picture was not from the Japanese artists, but from the same gallery...I forgot to check who was the artist, but I kind of liked it)


I happened to walk in some Japanese artists' show.

"Kobe Flower Road" by Nagi Iwasaki
I had a chance to talk to the artist, he was a lovely person. He said he teaches art and work for a bakery in Kobe.

 the artist name is Tamiko Tominaga, I forgot to write down the title of the picture.
I think the picture would have been good without the face on the ground, what do you think? 

NY Gallery Visit (1)

Where: NY Soho Galleries

Spring is near, it is almost the time for gallery hopping. It is a great fun in spring-summer in NYC.  It was not exactly ideal weather today (way too cold...) but there were many opened late, I found some really interesting ones.

The point of gallery "hopping" is literally to go multiple ones. I must say it is always mixed, you see something totally bad and then something nice, sometimes something really good. Below are those which I saw today, let's take a look.

1) Jose Parla "Walls, Diaries and Paintings"
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, March 3-April 16 2011

It was opening day and it was so packed. He is Miami based Latino artist, the art supposed to depict a mood of certain city and/or neighborhood, but I did not really get impressed by the artwork. I felt it was lacking of depth.


2) Marcela Cadena "A Solo Exhibition"
Agora Gallery, March 1-22, 2011

Cadena is from Mexico. In an interview, she said that "my art is abstract because the feeling do not have forms or boundaries." I liked the pictures, they were very pretty. I liked her larger pieces than smaller ones, I think when you draw an abstract picture with colors having central meaning, size matters.