MIYAKO YOSHINAGA is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Jonathan Yukio Clark entitled In the Space of the Near and Distant. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition in New York and his first presentation at this gallery. The exhibition will run from March 17 to April 30, 2022 and is presented during Asia Week New York (AWNY), a city-wide celebration of Asian Art (3/16-3/25).
Jonathan Yukio Clark’s multi-disciplinary practice bridges his work in printmaking, sculpture, drawing, and textile with a focus on the intercorrelation of distant landscapes threaded together through a personal lens of family history and relationship to place.
Jonathan Yukio Clark’s multi-disciplinary practice bridges his work in printmaking, sculpture, drawing, and textile with a focus on the intercorrelation of distant landscapes threaded together through a personal lens of family history and relationship to place.
The exhibition highlights a monumental wall piece “In the Realm of Mount Mihara,” the artist’s tribute to the rugged beauty of the volcano in the Island of Izu Oshima off the coast of Honshu, Japan. To epitomize the greater natural world, Clark uses his masterful monotype technique for six separate prints, each carrying on a panoramic vista of distinctive terrains and vegetations with vigorous rhythm and earthy colors. Opposite this work, a smaller landscape also from Izu Oshima embedded into a wooden frame entitled “Sakura in Volcanic Landscape” is flanked by two other landscapes; Mānoa Valley in O‘ahu and Hualālai on Hawai‘i Island. Both compositions are based on the slide taken by Clark’s grandfather. These disparate landscapes are recurring points of familiarity, cross-generational recollection, and natural transformation.
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