About the Exhibition
Cocktail reception: Friday, April 17, 7 - 9 pm
Makoto Fujimura, an internationally acclaimed contemporary artist using the ancient Japanese materials and technique of Nihonga, will be exhibiting an entirely new body of work at White Stone Gallery. Olana: Psalms of Ascent will be the first Philadelphia exhibit for Fujimura, represented by Dillon Gallery in New York City.
For White Stone Gallery, Fujimura will exhibit devotional imagery made in the last two years. Says the artist, ?These works are done in layers of thin minerals; small paintings often taking more than a year to complete. I began them as a personal devotional journey between art and faith, a type of ?Psalms of Ascent' for me. I realized recently that current world conditions call an artist to operate in the area of uncertainty to provide perspectives on hope and longing.?
Part of the series relies on his visit to Olana, the former estate of the Hudson River Painter Fredrick Church, in upstate New York. Fujimura considers the Olana series to be his homage to Hudson River painters.
About the Gallery
White Stone Gallery specializes in biblical fine art from a variety of renowned national and international artists of faith.
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