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January 11, 2007- February 17, 2007
Reception: January 11, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Keiko Narahashi
Hudson Franklin
508 W 26th StHudson Franklin is pleased to present Keiko Narahashi's first solo exhibition in New York, on view from January 11 to February 17, 2007.
Keiko Narahashi creates structures that act as provisional memorials or artifacts. The fundamental building blocks are multi-size boxes built from Italian parchment paper and dipped in gesso, which causes them to warp and pucker. Along with these, she adds paint, found objects, or photographs. She often swaps elements from her older works, a process she views as recycling. Her sculptures evoke a feeling of tenuousness associated with makeshift roadside memorials or rural cairns marking the spot of an unknown memory or tragedy. Narahashi says, ³I recycle materials to craft memorials to an imagined past as a hedge against a possible future.²
Born in Tokyo, raised in North Carolina, the artist now lives and works in New York. She received an M.F.A. in 1999 from Bard College. She has had exhibitions at The Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been awarded a studio grant from the Marie Walshe Sharpe Foundation (2005-2006) and a painting fellowship grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2006.
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