2:46 and thereafter installation view at Pepco Edison Place Gallery, 2012.
2:46 and Thereafter
FEBRUARY 16 – MARCH 25, 2012
Takeshi Abe, Chiho Akama, Yasushi Ebihara, Yuya Fujita, Masaharu Futoyu, Kotaro Isobe, Mami Kosemura, Shinji Maeda, Kazumasa Noguchi, Mitsuki Noguchi, Tetsuya Noguchi, Mihoko Ogaki, Akiko Ozasa, Masaharu Sato, Shinichi Tsuchiya, Takayoshi Tsuchiya, Ryota Unno and Keiki Yamada
Presented in collaboration with artist collective DANDANS (Tokyo, Japan) at Pepco's Edison Place Gallery
EXHIBITION CATALOG
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Working in collaboration with DANDANS, a Tokyo based artist collective, Transformer is honored to present 2:46 and thereafter, an exhibition highlighting 18 emerging Japanese artists' responses to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunamis that struck Japan’s north-east coast, and its affect on the country and the Japanese people. The title of the exhibition, 2:46 and thereafter, marks the time the earthquake hit.
This comprehensive exhibition, the first of its kind in the US, will feature works in a variety of mediums. Through installation, painting, video, sculpture, photography, and drawing, the artists featured in 2:46 and thereafter – Takeshi Abe, Chiho Akama, Yasushi Ebihara, Yuya Fujita, Masaharu Futoyu, Kotaro Isobe, Mami Kosemura, Shinji Maeda, Kazumasa Noguchi, Mitsuki Noguchi, Tetsuya Noguchi, Mihoko Ogaki, Akiko Ozasa, Masaharu Sato, Shinichi Tsuchiya, Takayoshi Tsuchiya, Ryota Unno and Keiki Yamada – address issues that many of the people of Japan, primarily the young people, are exploring as they adjust to life following destruction, loss, and still to be determined affects from Japan's most powerful earthquake since records began.
2:46 and thereafter is being hosted by Pepco's Edison Place Gallery. Many thanks for their support in hosting this exhibition and related programs.
Many thanks to the Japanese Embassy in Washington, DC and the American Embassy in Japan for their support. Additional thanks to Kushi restaurant for sponsoring the exhibition’s opening & closing receptions.
EXHIBITION PROGRAMS
FRAMEWORK PANEL #15: 2:46 and thereafter - Japanese Artists’ Responses to the March 2011 Earthquake & Tsunamis
Thursday, February 16, 2012; 4:30 - 6pm
OPENING RECEPTION: 2:46 and thereafter
Thursday, February 16, 2012; 6 - 8pm
CLOSING RECEPTION with special performance by On Megumi Akiyoshi
Saturday, March 24, 2012; 6 - 8pm
EXHIBITION HOURS of EDISON PLACE GALLERY:
Tuesday - Friday 12 - 4 pm; Thursdays 12 - 7pm; Saturday, March 10,17 & 24th; 12 - 4pm; Sunday, March 25; 12 - 4pm
Shinji Maeda installing Gate 311. Remarks
Artists installing ATOMIC POWER IS THE ENERGY OF THE BRIGHT FUTURE by Masaharu Futoyu
Installation shot of Milky Way -flowers #1, Mihoko Ogaki
Installation view
Installation shot of Shinichi Tsuchiya and Akiko Ozasa's work
Installation shot of The Lifeline - Memories are trapped in there, Keiki Yamada
Installation shot of Lotus, Which Grows Out of the Dirty Mud Yet Is Clean, Chiho Akama
Gate 311. Remarks, Installation view
Installation of Frozen, Mami Kosemura
Installation of Frozen, Mami Kosemura
Members of DANDANS Artist Collective & Victoria Reis, Executive & Artistic Director of Transformer
Framework Panel audience
Framework Panel with moderator, Mrs. Noriko Kashiwagi, artists Chiho Akama, Shinji Maeda, Kazumasa Noguchi, DANDANS General Director Mrs. Kazuko Aso and Victoria Reis
Framework Panel artists Chiho Akama, Shinji Maeda and Kazumasa Noguchi
Mrs. Yoriko Fujisaki, United States Senator Daniel K. Inouye, Mrs. Irene Hirano, Mrs. Verónica Valencia-Sarukhan and Kim Watson, VP of Corporate Philantrophy at Pepco
Mrs. Kazuko Aso, artist Mitsuki Noguchi, United States Senator Daniele K. Inouye, Mrs. Irene Hirano, Victoria Reis, Mrs. Yoriko Fujisaki
United States Senator Daniel K. Inouye, Mrs. Irene Hirano and James Alefantis, Transformer Board President
Lisa Marie Thalhammer, Darren Norris & Ari Kushimoto Norris, Owners of Kushi and Thom Flynn, Beverage Director of Kushi
Artists Chiho Akama, Shinji Maeda, Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki, artists Hirosuke Yabe and Ryota Unno
Opening Reception