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September 12 - 29, 2007
Reception: Tuesday, September 18, 6 - 8pm
School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York City, and the SVA Japan Alumni Association present "Super Phat," a multimedia exhibition that highlights the work of Japanese alumni and alumni living in Japan. Working in a variety of media, more than 40 established and emerging artists explore how their exposure to Japanese and American cultures has informed their work.
The word "phat"--an American slang word for "cool"--in the exhibition title, plays off the word "fat," referring to work that has adopted, absorbed, taken in, eaten and digested culture and has grown, extended and expanded because of that absorption. Forty-one artists--including ON megumi Akiyoshi, Chika Iijima, Takahiro Kaneyama, Kanako Sasaki, Junko Shimizu, Yuko Shimizu, Kiriko Shirobayashi, Yuken Teruya and Chiaki Watanabe--have produced illustrations, photographs, paintings, sculpture and video installations as result of this fusion between Japanese and American cultures. The exhibition is curated by Marshall Arisman, chair of SVA’s MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department; Re? Sato-Manni, a member of the Japan Alumni Association; and Retsu Takahashi, a Japanese-American alumnus. The exhibition is organized by Elaine Chow, associate director of alumni affairs.
The complete list of artists whose work will be on view is: Kathleen Adair, ON megumi Akiyoshi, Asterism (Naoko Takemoto), Masako Ebata, Mihoko Hakata, Shisei Hashimura, Katsumi Hayakawa, Rie Hayakawa, Chika Iijima & Zach Layton, Kazuyo Inoue, Takahiro Kaneyama, Chie Machida, Scean Mitchell, Aki Morita, Yoriko Nagae, Kimihiko Nagase, Yuko Nakajima, Masayoshi Nakamura, Hiro Ohta, Kei Okada, Fumiyo Osawa, Mikiko Otaki, Kanako Sasaki, Junko Shimizu, Shungo Shimizu, Yuko Shimizu, Kiriko Shirobayashi, Reiko Sugitani, Miho Suzuki, Ko Takeuchi, Daisuke Takeya, Tomomi Tanikawa, Ai Tatebayashi, Yuken Teruya, Masako Toyoda, Miyuki Tsushima, Nao Uda, Mine Umeda, Chiaki Watanabe, Junko Yasumaru and Hiroko Yoshida.
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| | Visual Arts Gallery
601 West 26 Street, 15th floor
New York,
NY 10001
212.592.2145
The Visual Arts Gallery is SVA's premier exhibition facility. Located in Chelsea on the 15th floor of the landmark Starrett-Lehigh Building, it comprises four state of the art galleries and a large terrace with a commanding view of Lower Manhattan and the Hudson River. Staffed by six full-time professionals, Visual Arts Gallery offers select students the opportunity to exhibit and sell their work in the same environment as some of the country's leading artists--a number of whom have exhibited there as well.
Since the Visual Arts Gallery moved from 137 Wooster Street in Soho to its present location in 2004, it has exhibited works by renowned SVA alumni such as Renee Cox, Inka Essenhigh, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Lazzarini, Sol Lewitt, Vera Lutter, Elizabeth Peyton, Alexis Rockman, Collier Schorr, Lorna Simpson and Sara Sze, Works by Richard Avedon, Milton Glaser, Anish Kapoor, Stefan Sagmeister, Sebastiao Salgado have also been exhibited at the Visual Arts Gallery.
SVA students of every discipline derive great educational benefit from being able to study the work of celebrated artists, hear them speak at lectures, or even get the chance to meet them in person -- all right here at the College.
The Visual Arts Gallery is open Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and is closed Sunday and federal holidays*. The gallery is accessible by wheelchair. For more information, or to purchase student's work (the gallery takes no commission), please call 212.592.2145.
*Summer Hours: The gallery will be closed for the
Independence Day holiday weekend from Friday, July 2, 1pm through
Monday, July 5. June 4th
through August 20th, 2010, the gallery will be closing one hour earlier
on Fridays (5pm instead of 6pm).
For press inquiries, please call the Office of Communication at 212.592.2010 or email proffice@sva.edu
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