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
Solo
Exhibition Mar. 6 – 27, 2010
Opening Reception:
Saturday,
Mar. 6, 2010
1
– 4 PM, RSVP before Mar 3, Wed.
Art Touch Collection
Tel 203 661-0140 Fax 203 661-6869
Hours Tue-Sat 11 - 4
Ayakoh
Furukawa is an international artist based in
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 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”
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Future Exhibitions
March 6 - 27 Ayakoh Furukawa: Hamsters, Text Drawings
& Metamorphosis Series
March 4 - April 17 Kotaro Fukui: Chelsea Art Museum
April 3 - 24 Kaz Oda: Watercolor & Sketches (NYC and
CT scenes)
May 1 - 22 GAO Yuan: Photography-Tatoo, Reflection,
Graffiti & 12 Moons
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OUR ARTISTS
CHANG Yi-Hsiung (張義雄)
Venice
1985, oil on canvas, 20.8" x 16", signed and dated lower right
Jenny CHEN (陳張莉)
Fluid Exploration 2008-216 自在流意 resin with steel frame, 2008, 36" x 36"
CHEN Long-Bin (陳龍斌)
一佛兩制
2008, books "China Base Data Book" & "Taiwan Under War", 13"x8"x9"
Notes on "One Buddha Two Systems"
CHEN Zong-Guang (陳宗光)
Passion No. 1
激情NO。1
2008, oil on canvas, 70.9"x43.3"
GAO Yuan (高媛)
Yakuza. 1990,Gelatin SilverPrint
HAN Yuguang (韩宇光)

Man's Two Hands 男人的双手
2001, oil on canvas, 20.2"x11.8"
Jessica Pi-Hua HSU (徐畢華)
Autumn Light 秋光疏影
2007, mixed media on canvas, 23.6"x31.5"
HUNG Su-Li (洪素麗)
Tulip Tree, 2006, oil on canvas 36"x36"
LAI Tsun Tsun (賴純純)
Flowers 花 2005, acrylic on canvas, 57"x43.3"
LEE Chin-Chu (李金祝)
Beginning of Path to Endless Happiness 海闊天空
2008, oil on canvas, 39.4"x28.5"
Katherine MANN (陳子蘭)
Amah, 2008, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 76"x84", diptych
Clear Night, 1995, Aquatint Etching Print, 11"x8", Edition 60
Q. X. WANG (王庆祥 - 大泽人)
Swan Lake in Autumn, 2008, Acrylic on Canvas, 24" x 29"
YANG Ming-Dye ( 楊明迭)
Watercoat No.12 水衣
2008, Screen Print, 43.3"x32.3" Ed. 18
ZHENG Lianjie (郑连杰)

Untitled, 1995, Acrylic on Shuan Paper, 18" x 16.5"













