Galerie le Moulin - Yoshio Ikezaki

Exhibitions

2012
Museum of Arts and Design, New York U.S.A.
2011
Les salles voisines, Vezenobres France
Poetry Of Paper Artweek, Los Angeles U.S.A.
Art Fair Realisme 2011 Amsterdam The Netherlands
2010
Galerie Jos Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
AndrewShire Gallery Los Angeles U.S.A.
Pa los Verdes Art Center, Rollings Hills Estates U.S.A.
2009
Gallery BALTA, Kaunas Lithuania la Lituanie
Ren Brown Collection, Bodega Bay Ca, U.S.A.
2008
Manhattan Beach Art Center, Manhattan Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Art Amsterdam with Jos Art. Amsterdam, Holland
Patricia Faure gallery, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Asia Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Sinjyuku Takashimaya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Art Fair Amsterdam, Holland
2007
Galerie Le Moulin, Bram, France
Los Angeles Bradley International airport exhibit. Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
L.A. Artcore Center, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA, U.S.A.
Fukuoka Prefectural Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Etienne Dewulf gallery, Gent Belgium
2006
Lman gallery, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Galerie Jos Art, Amsterdam, Holland
2005
Lois Neiter Fine Arts, Malibu, CA, U.S.A.
Galerie Jos Art, Amsterdam, Holland
Kitakyushu City Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
Miki Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan
Artspace Rashinban Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004
L.A. Artcore Retrospective, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Shoukokuji Temple, Kyoto Japan
Eastern Center of Art and Culture Burapha University, Thailand
Lois Neiter Fine Arts, Malibu, CA, U.S.A.
Andrewshire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Museum Rijswijk, Rijswijk, Holland
2003
L.A. Artcore Center, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Sunam Gallery, Busan, Korea
2002
Taegu Art Museum, Taegu, Korea
2001
Modern Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Japan Expo in Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan
Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
Kitakyushu City Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
Japan Expo, Kitakyushu, Japan
Nishiri Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2000
Angles Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, U.S.A.
Nishiri Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
L.A. Artcore Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Awards and Commisions

Chosen artist for Holland Paper Biennial
LA Artcore 14th Annual Award
Government Commission for Exposition Kitakyushu
Paper Architecture "Fusion Sallon", Kitakyushu, Japan
Permanent Collection by American Craft Museum, 33 special Designed
Washi paper for their collection, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Grant received for Oversea student abroad from Japan Foundation Tokyo, Japan
City government commission for stage making of Hibiki music festival Kitakyushu, Japan
Commission to make custom made paper of mural painting from Hiro Yamagata
Commission to make Book art Paper for Occidental College, Pasadena, U.S.A.

Yoshio Ikezaki - - 1953 Kitakyushu-city, Japan

Medium: sumi ink paintings and sculpted paper - Education B.A., M.F.A. Florida State University

Yoshio Ikezaki studied papermaking in Japan and then received a BA and an MFA from Florida State University. As an avid artist and teacher, his time is now divided between Los Angeles and Kitakyushu in southern Japan. In both cultures he teaches papermaking and brush painting, as well as philosophy and aesthetics classes at such places as Tama Art University in Tokyo, Southern California Institute of Architecture, UCLA Extension. He has lectured at Coopers Union, Pratt Art Institute and the Parsons School of Design in New York, among others.
Ikezaki’s sumi ink paintings on paper are mysterious and evocative. One group is entitled “Gathered Dreams” and alternately appear as landscapes or metaphysical statements. There is subtlety, delicacy and sometimes a light sprinkling of metallic powder to give an inner luminescence. Other directions include similar images combined with verses from the Hannya Shingyo (Heart Sutra) carefully rendered with delicate brushstrokes.

Because of his fascination with dimensionality, Yoshio Ikezaki has also explored sculptural work. The heavily layered papers are colored with sumi ink and may also have a Buddhist inscription. He has also collaborated with Western artists, actors, and musicians doing stage design. Yoshio Ikezaki’s work truly joins East and West, modern and traditional in a completely unique fashion.

Trained in sumi ink techniques and ancient paper making rituals. Yoshio Ikezaki shows delicate, unbearably fragile lined images and collages that invoke evocative Asian landscape traditions. The quiet elegance of nature is more intoned than depicted, and in keeping with his origins, the making of these marks takes on the unplanned creative discovery we find in a koan. His sculptures, made also from layer upon layer of handmade sumi pulp, actually include passages from the Buddhist sutra. The whole show feels like a contemplation of the spiritual as well as formal implications of space and void, line and field, the finite mark and the infinite action of intuition.