An exhibition, in cunjuction with the National Cherry Blossom Festival, featuring Yuriko Yamaguchi, Michi Fujita and iona rozeal brown
Alongside hand-carved wooden forms resembling seeds, nests, and organic growths, Yuriko Yamaguchi’s suspended installations of tree-like structures will take shape from thousands of handmade pods attached individually to a matrix of wire, each enclosing a personal prayer. Her site-specific series of installations entitled Web/Pray will foster communal participation from the entire city. The artist’s mother, Michi Fugita, will be honored posthumously with inclusion in the exhibit as well. Her Four Seasons series of oil paintings, affirms her daughter’s sensitivity to the life cycles of nature, as each canvas records an entire annual cycle of all four seasons.
The mother-daughter confluence continues with the work of iona rozeal brown, also known as “iona diamond”. As a native Washingtonian, her introduction to Kabuki theatre was first made by her mother, attending performances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The memory was enlivened later in life as intense study of Japanese theatre expanded to encompass observed cultural fusions occurring amongst Japanese youth. brown has built a unique vocabulary from a multitude of synergistic Japanese and American influences in order to illustrate an ever-expanding mythology of young spirits born from pods, to become saplings in the living world. These saplings arrive with inherent talents and strengths to contribute to the world, although villainous negative forces seem intent to disrupt the saplings’ path toward constructive production.
brown has extended the allegories of her paintings into her first work of live performance, battle of yestermore. Originally commissioned for the Performa 2011 festival in New York, and reprised at Art Basel Miami, battle of yestermore draws from the myth-based genres of Kabuki and Noh theater, as well as hip-hop culture and “vogueing,” made famous in the Harlem ballroom scene of the 1960s.
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