SUMMER EXHIBITION

SUMMER PLAYGROUND

VINCENT CHONG, AYA FUJIOKA, ALEXA HOYER, YASUSHI IKEJIRI, JAMES ISHERWOOD ÉTIENNE KRÄHENBÜHL, ASTRID KÖPPE, NORIHIKO SAITO, TAKASHI SETO, HOMER SHEW, ASAKO TABATA, DANIELLE WINGER, AMI YAMASHIRO

July 13 – August 28, 2026
(Closed from Aug 8-17)

We are pleased to present SUMMER PLAYGROUND, a group exhibition with works by Vincent Chong, Aya Fujioka, Alexa Hoyer, Yasushi Ikejiri, James Isherwood, Étienne Krähenbühl, Astrid Köppe, Norihiko Saito, Takashi Seto, Homer Shew, Asako Tabata, Danielle Winger, and Ami Yamashiro. Spanning painting, photography, sculpture, textile, and mixed media, the works converge in a shared sensitivity to memory, material transformation, and the shifting boundaries between abstraction and representation.

Highlights include Vincent Chong’s evocative portraits that capture the quiet intimacy of everyday life; Aya Fujioka’s intimate photographs documenting her diasporic life in New York; Alexa Hoyer’s photographs uncovering unexpected narratives in urban and rural landscapes; Yasushi Ikejiri’s meticulous paintings that elevate discarded packaging into compelling works of art; James Isherwood’s vibrant abstractions that blur the line between observation and imagination; Étienne Krähenbühl’s innovative sculptures combining industrial materials with poetic inquiry; Astrid Köppe’s biomorphic drawings and enamel works that challenge perception and memory; Norihiko Saito’s contemporary Nihonga paintings exploring nature, memory, and spirituality; Takashi Seto’s intricate textile compositions that evolve with time; Homer Shew’s expressive portraits exploring identity and the Asian diaspora; Asako Tabata’s paintings and papier-mâché sculptures inspired by everyday life and family; Danielle Winger’s lyrical landscapes that intertwine nature, emotion, and memory; and Ami Yamashiro’s haunting mezzotints and paintings blending Victorian aesthetics with surreal contemporary narratives.

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UPCOMING AUTUMN EXHIBITION

Kiyoshi Hamada: Gazing Into Stillness – Works 1975–2026

September 10 – November 7, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept 10, 6-8pm

We are pleased to presents a solo exhibition of Kiyoshi Hamada (b. 1937, Kōchi, Japan), surveying five decades of work from 1975 to the present this fall. Trained at Tama Art University and active since the early 1960s, Hamada has pursued a singular question: not what to depict, but how the painting itself — support, material, and the traces of the hand — comes into being.

The exhibition opens with the red-line plywood paintings of the mid-1970s, inspired by the dawn horizon over the Pacific coast of his childhood. They are followed by the DRAWING series, begun in the 1980s, in which Hamada turned the elemental, labor-intensive act of drawing graphite on paper into a meditation on accumulated time — filling sheets and rolls of paper with countless pencil strokes until the surface transformed into a dense, lustrous black substance, no longer image but sheer matter and duration. In the 2000s, Hamada began another body of work of layering, scratching, and carving paint to unearth buried strata of color. The exhibition also includes his latest works of ink on paper.

In 2025, Hamada was the subject of a major retrospective, Kiyoshi Hamada: Journey — 1975 and onward, at The Museum of Art, Kochi, in his native prefecture, surveying a half century of his practice. His works are held in major collections including the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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About the Gallery

Since its founding in Tokyo in 1996, Seizan Gallery has represented artists who work in a variety of media and styles. Based in Ginza, in the heart of culture and luxury business in Tokyo, Seizan represents nearly fifty contemporary artists as well as the estates of modern masters. After inaugurating its first overseas exhibition space in 2018, in Chelsea, NYC, the gallery has presented the work of artists who produce artworks with universal aesthetic appeal yet possess a strong connection to traditional roots. Such artists include Yasuko Hasumura, Kengo Takahashi, Emi Katsuta, Toko Shinoda, Toshiyuki Kajioka, and Yasushi Ikejiri. Located in vibrant cultural centers in both East and West, Seizan Gallery works with emerging artists to fulfill their vision and potential to contribute to the art world.