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gallery gen brings exclusive Japanese artists to palmbeach3 Contemporary Art Fair 1/15-18/09

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Meet Japanese Artist Yoshiaki Yuki at gallery gen at the palmbeach3 Contemporary Art Fair

Visit us at Booth F11 and receive a complimentary 2009 calendar designed by Yoshiaki Yuki. Gallery Gen presents the recent works of Yuki as well as the spectacular textiles of Jun-ichi Arai.

JANUARY 14 -18
Palmbeach3 Contemporary Art Fair
January 14, 2009 Preview Evening
January 15 – 17, 2009 11:00am – 7:00pm
January 18, 2009 11:00am – 6:00pm
Palm Beach County Convention Center
650 Okeechobee Blvd. West Palm Beach, Florida 33401


Yoshiaki Yuki, Listening [聞], 2008, 36 1/5″ x 71 3/4″, Silver leaf and color pigment on panel

Yoshiaki Yuki
Yoshiaki Yuki began his career at the age of 20, exhibiting his works in his native Japan and overseas. Yuki’s work fuses modern art, representational images and abstract paintings into one single vision. Later he began exploring a unique calligraphic art he has named Ji-Sho-Ji-Ga, based on his vision of both Chinese and Japanese characters utilized more as images and symbols than an alphabet. Instead of writing, he paints the ancient hieroglyphic characters, gathering inspiration not from their meaning alone, but from their shape and form.
Yuki’s art extends to a great variety of canvases, including fabric, paper, wood, ceramics, glass and iron. These materials are fashioned into various works that include pictorial art known as Kakejiku (hanging scrolls), Byoobu (folding screens), lamps, furniture, tableware, and other decorative items.
Jun-ichi Arai|
Jun-ichi Arai was born in Kiryu, Japan, a city having over a one thousand year history as a center for textile manufacturing. His work held in permanent collections at Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Modern Art – New York, Museum of Arts and Design, Bolose Textile History Museum, Carnegie Museum, Cooper-Hewitt National Museum, Dallas Museum, Gangoji, Kiryu Art Culture Center, Okawa Museum, Philadelphia Museum, Power House Museum, Saint Louise Museum, Yetepori Museum, among others.
Because of his outstanding gift as textile creator, Arai was named Honorable Royal Designer for Industry by the British Royal Academy of Arts and received the Textile Design Medal by the Textile Institute (International Textile Academy).

Arai’s innovative fabrics have caught the imagination of global fashion designers, collaborating with Rei Kawakubo, Issey Miyake, Kansai Yamamoto, and Comme des Garçons.

Having acquired the highest honors and awards, he was the first to pioneer Jacquard machines and computers, blending tie-dye manual skills with new technology.
About Gallery Gen
The breathtaking beauty of Japan is the theme for the work at gallery gen. The ever-evolving, gallery gen (gen means origin, the source of all things in Japanese), presents a wide variety of contemporary art in ceramics, paper, fiber, and myriad media by artist Yoshiaki Yuki, distinguish, contemporary textile works by Jun-ichi Arai and other artists who gather their inspiration from the traditional arts and culture of Japan blending both Japanese antiques and art of other Asian nations to create a completely new look for discerning collectors, museums and modern homes worldwide.
gallery gen presents a mix representative of eastern and western cultures including fine art, handcrafted ceramics, tableware, hanging scrolls, folding screens, lighting, textiles and other one-of-a-kind objects.
Gallery Contact Information:
gallery gen . 47-09 36th S
t. . Long Island City, NY 11101.
tl: 718 92 7717
contact: Masahiko Tasaki
www.gallerygen.com
info@gallerygen.com

Palmbeach3 Contemporary Art Fair 1/15-18/09

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The palmbeach3 contemporary art fair Continues its Leadership
Position on the Global Art Calendar with Features Designed for Both
Novice and Seasoned Art Collectors, Museum Curators and Designers

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Dates: January 15-18, 2009
Address: Palm Beach County Convention Center
For more about palmbeach3: www.palmbeach3.com
palmbeach3@dmgworldmedia.com
Tel. (561) 209-1308

The palmbeach3 contemporary art fair, sponsored by The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, is anticipated once again to attract a great deal of attention when it returns to Palm Beach, Fla. for its 12th season on January 15-18, 2009 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. The four-day event will begin with a private Preview Evening on January 14 at 5:30 p.m. and the fair will be open from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. on Sunday. For more about palmbeach3, please visit www.palmbeach3.com, or contact us at palmbeach3@dmgworldmedia.com, by phone at (561) 209-1308 or by fax at (561) 209-1321.

The Preview Evening will give prominent collectors, curators and art advisors the first opportunity to preview and purchase a stellar array of paintings, photography, video, sculptures, functional objects and design from more than 80 prestigious national and international dealers. The galleries will present a range of contemporary art, from museum quality works by luminaries such as Gerard Richter and Robert Rauschenberg, to top works by established mid-career artists as well as the latest from emerging artists – all in a variety of styles and media.

Fair director Fran Kaufman’s innovative programming this year includes the creation of Museum Curator Program in which prominent museum curators and art professionals from around the country will bring collector and donor groups to the palmbeach3 fair and participate in lectures and VIP programs. Participating curators include Eric C. Shiner, the Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Christopher Phillips, Senior Curator at New York’s International Center of Photography, among others.

In addition, palmbeach’s Florida Museum Partnership Program has been vastly expanded to include an unprecedented 20 fine arts, decorative arts and design institutions, including the Wolfsonian and St. Petersburg Museum. The inaugural Designer Committee is chaired by the internationally renowned interior designer Juan Montoya of New York and Paris. He is joined on the committee by Celerie Kemble; Bruce Bierman; Carlton Varney; Geoffrey Bradfield; Jennifer Garrigues; Lisa Erdman and many other leaders in the field. In addition, Kaufman has considerably expanded the fair’s Host Committee made up of such prominent collectors as Joan and Charles Lazarus, founder of Toys R Us; prominent collectors and philanthropists Dale and Doug Anderson, Ted and Ruth Baum, and Marvin and Elayne Mordes; philanthropist and arts patron Emily Fisher Landau; and collector Flora Major of Sarasota and New York.

Other efforts to heighten the art and design collecting experience at the fair include assembling some innovative, special exhibitions, including a collection of Romare Bearden’s Caribbean watercolors; Nathalia Edenmont photographs; George Segal sculpture; and an interesting selection of work from the estate of the late Leslie Lerner, a Florida artist with ties to The Norton Museum, Ringling Museum and The Katonah Museum of Art. The fair also added Artist and Designer Conversations to the lecture series, which features intimate discussions with Juan Montoya; Wendell Castle, who is represented in the permanent collections of over 70 museums; and Steve McCurry, noted photographer and member of Magnum Photos.