Black to White, photograph by Matthew Sherman
Hair’s Breadth 間一髪
Closing event Artist Talk (with some refreshments)
Sunday, December 17, from 3 - 4pm
A.I.R. Gallery
Tomoko Amaki Abe’s exhibition, A Hair’s Breadth, reflects on the relationship between humanity and nature, in different locations, disparate times, and across multiple media. The media used include glass, fabric, and projection, which are overlaid, creating a sense of ambiguity in their representations of time and space.
On Sunday December 17 from 3 - 4pm, Tomoko will give a gallery tour in which she will describe her use of various media, her creative process, and how that process relates to the exhibition's concept.
Tomoko Amaki Abe lived in Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom, before settling in the greater New York area. Abe graduated with First Class Honours from Bachelors program at the Edinburgh College of Art, during which she received an ERASMUS scholarship to study at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, Salamanca, Spain. Her body of work ranges from painting, paper making, ceramics, glass, and most recently mixed media installation, often drawing themes from nature—its decay and regeneration. She has been an artist in residence recipient at Bullseye Glass, New York in 2018, as well as at Urban Glass, New York in 2020. Her work has been featured by publications including Brooklyn Rail, 500 Raku, The New York Times, and Ceramics Art + Perception.