個展 hpgrp New York Chelsea

顔料・膠・胡粉
Pigment, Glue, Powder of shell
2012.4

An Exhibition by Izumi Sajiki

April 5, 2012 – ANNEX ART SPACE will hold a solo exhibition by Izumi Sajiki, at hpgrp Gallery in New York (529 W 20th St., 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10011 Tel: 212-727- 2491). This exhibition is the artist’s first large-scale solo exhibition in New York. 

Sajiki draws and paints improvisatorially with whitewash, glue and pigment on Lokta paper, which is made in Nepal, and has a very different textures than most of paper made in Europe and the US. According to her: “In the process of production, I am faced with a lot of “events” or happenings. Sometimes these involve breaking the object down, and sometimes they involve building them back up, or re-creating them. In the process, I construct an unforeseeable object with that does not betray the pre-established harmony of the original.”

Sajiki’s work is reminiscent of the “Action Paintings,” or drip paintings, of Jackson Pollock. According to the renowned art critic Harold Rosenberg: “Art as an act rather than an object, as a process rather than a product.” Action painting, thus, is a definition that is not a result. In this light, Sajiki’s artwork can be considered to have the quality of “objectness”—a term coined by Clement Greenberg. By mixing up mediums, materials, and the different characteristics she embodies as an artist, she creates works that are as inexplicable, and cannot be categorized as merely “objects.”