Juxtapoz Magazine – Jack & Venus: Susumu Kamijo @ Jack Hanley, NYC

Jack Hanley Gallery is pleased to present Jack & Venus, an exhibition of new functions by New York-based mostly artist Susumu Kamijo. Jack & Venus spans across two galleries and will open up concurrently at Venus Over Manhattan’s 55 Great Jones Avenue house. In this exhibition, Kamijo will display a new sequence of his signature poodle paintings. These bold and dynamic figures have produced even more into abstraction which enables for the artist’s exploration of form, coloration, and technique to stand out.

In this physique of do the job, Kamijo is concentrated on three principal aspects: the poodle’s face, the landscape, and the total composition of these components. While the poodle is the frequent subject of the paintings, the artist has designed it distinct that it is not the poodle by itself that he is anxious with but rather the unpredicted sorts that it can acquire on. These new operates are cropped into a form of portraiture- the viewer sees lips, teeth, and eyes gazing again at them serenely, joyfully, or fiercely. As the confront is emphasized, the viewer is equipped to choose in the styles, shades, and traces, all coming with each other to depict the topic. Kamijo’s dynamic abstractions are further more complemented by the tender, rounded foliage of the landscapes they are settled in, as properly as the little circles in the higher left or appropriate corner, resembling the solar or the moon relying on their coloration.

The artist’s expressive method is obvious during this collection. Visible brushstrokes and paint drips are well balanced by daring lines and styles. The repetition of imagery combined with the unique evolution of style and procedure consequence in paintings that are at after acquainted and totally new.