CSUB Todd Madigan Gallery presents the "oHIRa 7 NOWling" art exhibit slated to open Wednesday, April 10 with a special receiption from 5 to 9pm.
The exhibit features Echiko and Minoru Ohira's sculptures and works on paper plus CSUB art professor Margaret Nowling's "Stranger in a Strange Land" assemblages.
Michael Johnson, director of the gallery said, "The Ohiras are each highly sensitive to the materials of which they make their very organic, almost animal-like sculptures and their cerebrally elegant drawings and collages."
Their materials are primarily wood and paper butr also include slate, acrylic paint, thread, graphite and numerous found objects.
"They do not disguise the nature of these materials in any way; textures and colors of the materials being at one with the identity of the sculpture," Johnson continue. "Even when Echiko uses an intense red acrylic paint on densely packed paper sculptures, neither the paper's nor the paint's characteristics seem to dominate; they somehow fuse into a single material, evocative of many things natural and poetic. Minoru's ingenious methods of cutting wood serve not just the requirements of construction but hte rich surfaces of his biomorphic forms, a transfusion of plant into animal flesh."
