Installation view, WHERE WE ARE NOT, photo by Thomas Barratt
WHERE WE ARE NOT
Yasushi Ikejiri, James Isherwood, Tom Nakashima, Danielle Winger
Closing Saturday, August 23, 2025
525 West 26th Street, NYC
Don’t miss the final days of WHERE WE ARE NOT, Seizan Gallery‘s summer group exhibition featuring Yasushi Ikejiri, James Isherwood, Tom Nakashima, and Danielle Winger. Bringing together four distinct yet thematically resonant practices, the exhibition envisions landscapes largely absent of human presence—inviting reflection on place, memory, and the subtle traces we leave 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.
Find a refreshing escape from the late-summer weather—visit while you can!
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