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Meet the Artist DECEMBER 3 , 2021 5-8 pm Opening Reception Japanese artist, Kenji Wakasugi and book publisher, Nick Groarke of NJG Studio Ltd. will be here. Come visit and speak with them!Please join us for the opening reception of Synthesis II at our New York gallery. 32 E 67th St New York, NY 10009 *We encourage everyone to have been vaccinated or to please wear a mask.

Book Signing DECEMBER 4, 2021 3 - 5 pm ADORE is the complete overview of the session – 200 pages include 324 frames, 10 contact sheets, together with 111 large format black and white portraits. For three and a half decades this collection remained private, near silent. Please join us with the artist, Kenji Wakasugi, and publisher, Nick Groarke, of NJG Studio Ltd.

A student of Japan’s long history of ink-wash painting, or suiboku-ga, Kenji Wakasugi uses black and grey in his traditional photography of flowers, plants, and landscapes, to evoke classical painting by luminaries such as Tōyō Sesshū (d. 1506) and Eitoku Kanō (1543–1590). Many of his works show classical paintings on sliding doors, or fusuma, in their architectural setting, incorporating the physical location of the painting and its manmade and natural surroundings into the fabric of the image. Dr. Felice Fischer is the Luther W. Brady Curator of Japanese Art and Senior Curator of East Asian Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She has organized numerous exhibitions, including “Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush” (2007), the catalogue for which received the 2008 Art Book Award from the Association of Art Historians (Great Britain); “Munakata Shikō, Japanese Master of the Modern Print” (2002); “The Arts of Hon’ami Kōetsu, Japanese Renaissance Master” (2000); and, most recently, the major exhibition “Ink and Gold, Art of the Kano” (2015). Please join us Thursday, December 30th at 5 pm to listen to Wakasugi and Fischer's conversation about his work. Please join us using this link: https://zoom.us/j/94867916014?pwd=aUJqWktNWUlmYk9haUhvVzBka0F0QT09#success