EXHIBITION


GALLERY　SAOH　&　TOMOS　（１F・BF）

Mami NISHIYAMA Exhibition

18 – 31 October 2000　closed on sunday
11:00-19:00：(until 17.00 on final day)
opening party 17:00-19:00

First Floor:
Drawings – over 30 pieces (Selections from the artists’ sketchbook exhibited in an innovatively.)




Basement Floor:
Drawings on panels (220x480cm) Cotton, glue, chalk oil, pastel, watercolor, etc. Small-sized drawings (pastel and color pencil on paper)



Note on “Drawings”: Treasures for the Sake of Beginning. An example would be the soft fluffy shape of a green thicket in the sunlight. Actually I just want to touch it, or hold it in my arms, but alas that is not possible, so I make a drawing of it. Later, when I look at the drawing I created in this way, I find I am overcome again by the desire to touch, and hold. In this way I find myself producing works by a process of repeatedly drawing my drawings. Placed on my table in preparation for making a work, the drawings wait – shining quietly with the premonition that something might be born. For me they are the cutest of things, a consoling existence. Mami NISHIYAMA September 2000

1963 Born Chiba Prefecture 1985 Graduated Tama Art University 1987 Completed Postgraduate studies, Tama Art University

Solo Exhibitions 1987, 88, 89, 92 Gallery Q, Ginza 1990 Funabashi Seibu Department Store 1993 Moris Gallery, Ginza 1995 Hak-Chon Gallery, Korea TEPCO, Ichikawa Urayasu Salesroom Gallery (Chiba) 1997 Gallery Natsuka, Ginza 1998 Naruse Fine Art, Machida 2000 Gallery Saoh & Tomos, Nihonbashi

Group Exhibitions 1988 “Ecstacy”, Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art 1990 “New York – Tokyo”, Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York 1991 “Mami NISHIYAMA / Yun Hi Chon Exhibition”, Naruse Tamura Gallery, Tokyo “Artists of the New Generation”, Funabashi Art Forum 1992 “Aosu / Chiba: Artists of the New Generation”, Seishu Museum, Korea 1994 “Conversing Climate”, Funabashi Citizen’s Gallery, Chiba 1995 “Future Premonitions”, Seishu Art Palace, Korea 1996 “The Origins of Boats”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum 1997 “Asian Wind Now 97”, Funabashi Citizen’s Gallery, Chiba 1998 “Asian Wind Now 97”, Funabashi Citizen’s Gallery, Chiba 1999 First Atami Biennale “Exhibition of Paintings in Vacant Rooms in the Sato Tsubaki Building” 2000 “Queen of the Night: Kazuo KENMOCHI / Mami NISHIYAMA”, Gallery Gen, Ginza “The Art Constellation”, Naruse Tamura Gallery, Tokyo

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