Masanori Maeda

The use of black ink to express the seasons and the passing of time is one of traditional Japanese painting’s major characteristics, and in comparison to acrylic or oil-based painting materials, it is often said that traditional Japanese pigments and inks are not only complex, but are notoriously difficult to use effectively for abstraction. It is this complexity which gives the genre called Nihonga its captivating allure, and an emerging school of contemporary Japanese painters are bringing this centuries-old tradition, previously leaning heavily on figurative motifs, into the 21st century with bold colours and striking abstractions.

SHIRIAGARI Kotobuki

Kotobuki Shiriagari was born in 1958 in Shizuoka City, Japan. After graduating from Tama Art University with a major in Graphic Design in 1981, Shiriagari joined Kirin Brewery Company, Ltd. and worked on packaging design and advertisements.

Working independently since 1994, Kotobuki Shiriagari continues to release fantasy and literary series works and other works in a wide range of genres, including satirical four-panel comic strips for newspapers and long-form narrative manga, as well as underground manga. While continuing to release original work, in recent years he has expanded beyond manga into a variety of media, including video and art.

George HAYASHI

George Hayashi, the Tokyo painter who was born in 1978, he is the grandson of Sogiku Hayashi who was known as the master of Japanese ink painting. Mr. Hayashi picked up painting when he was two.

Inspired by the energetic instinct and thriving vitality radiated from wild animals and the nature, Mr. Hayashi carried on with his painting journey named as NOMAD LIFE.

It’s one thing to conform to boring, one-dimensional street signs, but one gets a whole different feeling when obeying the incredible 3D art sings by Japanese artist Yuki Matsueda. These artworks are definitely attractive and easy to pay attention to. The series is fun, creative and unique—the pieces certainly break the mold.

Yuki MATSUEDA

Matsueda’s work consists of signs, ordinary elements and abstract images trying to escape the plastic frame they’re put into. The artist creates a 3D piece by giving the impression that the subject of the image has come to life and is trying to escape its constraints. My favorite has to be the exit man trying to actually exit—it’s extremely ironic and eye-catching.

Yiming CHAI (b.1965)

Artist Chai Yiming’s works are always full of “accidents”. For example, the absurd and unconnected figurative combinations within the picture will bring the viewer a sense of surprise beyond the picture. It brings the viewer a feeling of travelling beyond the picture. His paintings seem to create an opportunity. Gathering these unbelievable elements – he often intentionally ignores social symbols and other corresponding clues – rather than using an easily recognisable narrative technique. The result of this is． The line between abstraction and ornate narrative devices becomes very blurred.

QU Yan (b.1980)

Born in 1980, graduated from Master of Oil Painting, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 2006, Now living and working in Shanghai. Solo Exhibition: Condensation and Enthusiasm, Dongli Gallery, Taipei China (2015); Journal of Brahmacariya Oil Painting and Photography Exhibitions of Qu Yan’s Bike-riding Trip along the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, Feima Gallery, Chengdu China (2014). Group Exhibition: Art to Cross-Strait, Dongli Gallery, Taipei China (2017); Find One’s True Self, Xianghai Gallery, Shanghai China (2016). Art Fair: Art Gallery Art Fair—China-Japan-Korea Fine Art Gallery Exhibition, Shanghai China (2012).

Maiko KOBAYASHI (b. 1977)

Maiko Kobayashi has created a unique and lovely creature, pale and soft, as if threatened by invisible forces and feeling helpless, but she retains a light of courage and hope in her heart. This creature is like a vessel of the human soul, into which the artist puts delicate emotions and affectional connections with others. In addition to studying characters, the artist also invests a lot of time in the selection of materials and painting skills, constantly breaking through to adapt to richer changes and layers. The artist grew up in Japan’s “ACG” and “Hikikomori” cultural background, the image she created is quite universal. With the deepening of her creation, this image has its own unique “lovely philosophy”, which in turn affects her contemporaries

YU Qiping (b.1957)

Yu Qiping has created vague world for us. It is introverted, reserved, and intoxicated, but the truth of the world is blooming. It can arouse your sense of tranquility, focus and desire for the things that persist, and conflicts are dissolved and turned into the thirst for authentic lyricism, the yearning for mysterious joy – wisdom is meaningless here, and what is truly meaningful is the indulgence of aesthetic existence. This pursuit is also reflected in Yu Qiping’s painting skills. He has a deep understanding of various traditional techniques of Chinese painting, but has made modernistic transformations to them; on this basis he has formed his own unique painting vocabulary. This vocabulary constitutes the lexical basis of the aesthetic tendency of “Neo-Orientalism”. I like his painting aesthetics very much: a style and an inclination permeated with a very strong new oriental meaning. It is not a simple return to Buddhist Zen, nor is it a reproduction of Taoism’s thought of detachment from the world, but in a modern context. Through the avoidance of mechanical, crowded, busy, useless and other living conditions, it shows the true nature of human beings, the artist intends to reveal the pursuit and interpretation of the state of being human beings in the world.

ayaka nakamura

“Ayaka nakamura” creates paintings and video works under the theme of “the existence of life”, aiming to create delicate yet strong visuals.She was featured in “100 Filmmakers 2015” (BNN Publishing).Her live painting on a 7m wide and 3m high panel at Roppongi Art Night in 2016 was well received, and he began to do live painting at events. She is active both in Japan and abroad, and has had solo exhibitions at Bunkamura Box Gallery (Tokyo), Enatsu Gallery (Tokyo), and EPIC (Tokyo). She has participated in group exhibitions at EPICENTRO ART (Berlin), White Box (NY), WAH Center ¥ (NY), Anthology Film Archives (NY), ART FORMOSA (Taipei), and OLA Galleri & Ateljé (Sweden). In recent years, She has also been active in the United States, Denmark, and China. She won the Grand Prix in the first edition of “ARTIST NEW GATE”, an art contest to discover new largescale artists.

Astro Nuts

I inspire methodology of surrealism.
I create coincident & experimental by unconscious using that
realistic relation in each other is distant things or don’t intersect things .
Among them, I express animal realistic parts & personify to work,
Give arriving factor to artwork,
I express positive to contradictory dream & reality.