Keiko Arai and Susie Ferrell
Don’t miss two exciting summer events coming up at Seizan Gallery! Join them on June 28 for a special closing event featuring an artist talk with Keiko Arai, marking the final day of her solo exhibition INKSCAPE. Then, return on July 3 for the opening reception of WHERE WE ARE NOT, a vibrant summer group show!
Lecture & Talk
KEIKO ARAI × SUSIE FERRELL (LACMA)
Saturday, June 28, 2025, 2-4pm
525 West 26th Street, NYC
Join this closing-day lecture and conversation with ink artist Keiko Arai and Susie Ferrell, Associate Curator of Chinese Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), on June 28. Held in celebration of KEIKO ARAI: INKSCAPE, the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States, the program will begin with a lecture by Ferrell on Ink Painting of East Asia, exploring the tradition’s rich history and the ways contemporary artists are pushing the boundaries of monochrome expression. The lecture will be followed by a conversation between Arai and Ferrell, reflecting on Ferrell’s 2023 visit to Arai’s studio and discussing how Arai’s practice challenges conventional approaches to ink painting and carries the medium into the future. A casual mixer with refreshments will follow the talk. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Arai share insights into her practice and experience her exhibition on its final day!
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Yasushi Ikejiri, Beneath an Abandoned Passenger Car, 2024, oil and acrylic on canvas, 39.4 x 31.6 x 1.2 in (100 x 80.3 x 3 cm)
WHERE WE ARE NOT
Yasushi Ikejiri, James Isherwood, Tom Nakashima, Danielle Winger
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 3, 5-7pm
July 3 – August 23, 2025
(Summer Holiday Closure: August 10-18)
525 West 26th Street, NYC
Seizan Gallery is also pleased to present the summer group exhibition WHERE WE ARE NOT, featuring works by Yasushi Ikejiri, James Isherwood, Tom Nakashima, and Danielle Winger. On view from July 3 through August 23, 2025 (with a holiday closure from August 10 to 18), the exhibition brings together four distinct but thematically convergent practices that envision landscapes largely devoid of living beings—prompting reflection on place, memory, and the quiet traces humanity leaves behind.
Yasushi Ikejiri, drawing influence from landscape painters like Ivan Shishkin and Edward Hopper, captures overlooked corners of Tokyo with meticulous realism and vivid color. His hauntingly still scenes—recently inspired by Mimei Ogawa’s The Chocolate Candy Angel—depict empty parks and streets strewn with candy wrappers, evoking a quiet, melancholic sense of absence.
James Isherwood paints architectural landscapes where human presence is felt but unseen. Using vivid, surreal color and gestural layers, his dreamlike scenes evoke Hopper and Hockney, yet infused with surrealism. His layered, gestural works conjure scenes that are both familiar and uncanny, blurring the line between reality and imagination.
Tom Nakashima’s work, spanning painting, printmaking, collage, and digital media, explores landscapes shaped by memory and cultural legacy. His meditative scenes, often centered on natural or architectural forms, evoke quiet reflection. His SEIZAN Gallery debut features Hanford K East (20XX), a monumental work inspired by a building at the decommissioned Hanford nuclear site, revealing the hidden histories within abandoned structures.
Danielle Winger paints emotionally charged landscapes inspired by German Romanticism. Through bold brushwork and vivid color, she transforms mountains, forests, and deserts into metaphors for solitude, transcendence, and memory.
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