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Art Salon of Greenwich

The Art Salon of Greenwich, hosted by the Art Touch Collection, will present 4 programs in 2010. Each program will feature a speaker. Speaker topics will include but not be limited to, Asian art. The program is free. Registration is required due to limited seating. Light refreshments will be served. We hope to offer a virtual tour of culture and art via the speaker’s view and to create an enjoyable discussion through an interactive exchange of ideas in each program.

Art Touch Collection, located in Greenwich, Connecticut, is a private gallery in a home setting. The gallery exhibits and sells Asian contemporary art pieces of paintings, prints, sculptures and photography by established and selected emerging artists.

Our upcoming program will be held on March 18, 2010, Thursday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm at Art Touch Collection, 140 Round Hill Road, Greenwich, CT 06831.

We are very pleased to have Ms. Koko Nakayama as our speaker. Her topic is “Japanese Woodcut: from Ukiyo-e to Present”. Ms. Nakayama worked 8 years as a curator with The Adachi Foundation for the Preservation of Woodcut Printing in Tokyo, Japan, before moving to Greenwich, Connecticut. She had arranged and directed exhibitions at the Foundation’s gallery in Tokyo and abroad, including special demonstrations for international VIPs, like King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden and former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany.

Registration is first-come first-served. Please contact Jeff Lum at your earliest convenience at 203 661-0140 or jefflum@arttouchcollection.com

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Current Exhibition

National Women’s History Month:Ayakoh FURUKAWA’s Text Drawings & Other Projects

Solo Exhibition Mar. 6 – 27, 2010

Opening Reception:

Saturday, Mar. 6, 2010

1 – 4 PM, RSVP before Mar 3, Wed.

Art Touch Collection
140 Round Hill Road
Greenwich, CT 06831
Tel 203 661-0140 Fax 203 661-6869
Hours Tue-Sat 11 - 4

Ayakoh Furukawa is an international artist based in New York. Furukawa works on simultaneous multiple projects. She chooses the best style and medium to express certain statements and provides a visual expression to convey a distinctive aesthetic. She has a BFA and MFA from Hunter College of the City University of NY. She has exhibited in Chelsea, NY; Tokyo and Osaka, Japan and Shanghai, China.

In celebration of National Women’s History Month, Art Touch Collection will have a special exhibition of Ayakoh Furukawa’s Text Drawings of Long Necked Women. As explained by the artist: "A significant element is my meticulous handwriting. The text which is the title of the work become lines and adds depth and character to the image. The images in my works are metaphors and meant to be ambiguous. I repeat the same text thousands of times in my head and question the meaning of the text as I develop the images as I draw. The process is very important to show how truthful I am to my statement in each drawing. This sincerity becomes an obsession and the resulting images are strangely beautiful. These women make me reflect on their life upon the culture in which I live. By incorporating the quotations of celebrities into the drawings for this particular series, I hope to achieve a unique visual statement.”

Text Drawing of “You Are Built Not To Shrink Down To Less but To Blossom Into More — Oprah Winfrey”- Young woman and a girl (Detailed Close-up), 2009, Graphite & ink on Paper, 72” x 36”

Torturing the Innocent A series of paintings and drawings of the artist’s deceased pet hamster. The hamster is a unique protagonist to evoke the dark side of the human mind as well as the fragility of life. As quoted by noted art critic Robert Morgan, “The drawings and paintings that ensued are meticulously rendered and superb in their even-handed and fierce stylization. As with the rest of this engaging exhibition, Furukawa’s psychological insight and penetration open a door to the unknown through which many Westerners—with the possible exception of the 17th Spanish Baroque artists, such as Goya and Josep Ribera—would not dare to tread.”

Torturing the Innocent II, Hamster No.17 – Hit by Whisk, 2009, Oil on Canvas, 9” x 12”

Metamorphosis is Furukawa’s aspiration to visualize the metamorphosis of the human mind signified by biomorphic images and fragments of the human body. Instead of using a Western visual system such as linear perspective and modeling to create illusions, the artist instead employs Eastern techniques using overlapping and multiple contrasts.

Metamorphosis - Strangely It Became A Portrait, 2008, Acrylic on canvas, 24”x18”