From August 13th until September 27th, the Plus 81 Gallery in NYC is hosting a solo exhibition by Meguru Yamaguchi (featured). The show includes the most recent works from his “Cut & Paste” series of robust abstract pieces.
Born and raised in Shibuya, Tokyo’s epicenter of youth culture, the Japanese artist is now working and living in Brooklyn, NY. This mixture of experiences surely influenced his work that combines traditional brush stroke painting with new techniques. The pieces feel very dynamic due to their unusual shapes and untamed brush strokes. This chaotic expressive abstraction is achieved by laying out paint on plastic sheets to dry, then peeling it off and pasting them onto another surface. This unique collaging results in unique color combinations but also unexpected forms and shapes. For the artist himself, this production method represents the ways in which his hometown Tokyo produces its own identity – by extracting, layering and merging elements from different cultures and composing its own image.
