Featuring: Satoru Eguchi, Misaki Kawai, Min Kim, Margaret Lee, Charlene Liu, Koji Shimizu, Saeko Takagi, Mie Yim

Curated by Paul Laster and Renée Riccardo.

Saeko Takagi paints sensual images of people, animals, and nature while blurring the boundary between abstraction and representation. New York Times critic Roberta Smith recently wrote that her figures “evoke faded photos from a lost era.” Mie Yim takes us back to an age of innocence with her paintings filled with pastel-colored, fuzzy, stuffed animals. Though the subjects appear to be sweet and innocent, their interaction reflects a darker paradise.

Min Kim’s works on paper present young girls encompassed by nature—an idyllic, imagined realm from an adolescent’s point of view. Margaret Lee’s colored pencil drawings present scenes from a teenage past, where lovers and revelers mark nature with irreverent comments and romantic desires. Charlene Liu’s elaborate watercolors depict overgrown pastoral landscapes with abandoned cars, building rubble, rocks, flowers, billowing clouds, and flying insects.

Inspired by handmade dolls and low-quality manufactured objects found in the Far East, Misaki Kawai makes sculptures that reflect the playfulness of a teenager, with characters that reference a fairy-tale view of the `60s. Koji Shimizu retreats into the mind of his cat to create a colorful sculptural installation, which resembles a pet’s jungle gym.

Satoru Eguchi deconstructs travel photographs that he has shot in various locations around the world by cutting them into swirling abstractions - networks of colorful lines that recall the past as a dream-like memory. In the window space of 555 Broadway, Eguchi exhibits a hanging, sculptural assemblage - a giant shopping bag humorously made from a patchwork of ubiquitous plastic bags.