hpgrp gallery New York is pleased to feature multiple artistic perspectives
in our re-purposed gallery spaces.

Contemporary Japanese artists join us in our gallery for
Japan Art Wave 2009: New York featuring creations by:

Kazuko Date
Keiko Kusumoto
Mashahiro Suzuki
Ryu Morozumi
Kenji Kato
Sejima Takumi

The new S Project Space showcases street artist/engineer Kentaro Fujioka:

I ride my bicycle everyday in New York City. In this series,
Locus of Momentum, I use the same bicycle I ride in the
city to draw the image on paper and canvas.

Each drawing is done with graphite on paper or canvas. I ride on my
bicycle on top of the laid-out surface to create a mark between the
tire and the paper. These lines are very unique to the technique.
The qualities of the lines directly shows how they get affected
by physics of the act (gravity, momentum, inertia, pressure, friction).

I always like working with texture. Here texture is
created in the imprinting process between the textures of the
paper and the tire. These textures give timelessness to the line. Each
groove of the rubber tire imprints (record) itself on the surface as
my weight causes the pressure between the tire and paper. It is a
line but it's also a record of the sequential moments of my
travel on the wheels.

There is no preconceived design in my head. These drawings are
spontaneous. But each line is drawn carefully in order to create a
composition. I try to work as though the accumulated lines
are in consonance.

Momentum implies not only the bicycle's movement but also the
movement of my life in New York at this moment. I, like other New
Yorkers, love the city and love being in the city's landscape. I
want to ride swiftly through the landscape. I want to live swiftly my
New York life. These drawings are expression of the
movement I make in everyday life.