Tomokazu Matsuyama 🇯🇵 Based in Brooklyn NY • Art For Sale

[BK83]

Joshua Liner Gallery Presents
Tomokazu Matsuyama
Glancing at the Twin Peak
March 6 to April 4, 2009

If you are in NYC, def swing through and see this. Matzu is a good friend of mine and a one of the dopest artists working today! I dropped by his studio last night, and the shit he has lined up is pretty major!

peep his work matzu.net/ and below:

[junkieart]

Love it, good luck with the show, looks great!

[Heavyconsumer]

I wish I were in NYC - his work looks very cool.

[thegreatarchitect]

just started to get into this new wave of Japanese art

[ikeamonkey]

Matsu's stuff is crazy in an organized chaos sort of way. Very complex yet eye pleasing. I'll definately try to stop by.

[JoshuaLinerGallery]

Our new exhibit with Tomokazu Matsuyama "Glancing at the Twin Peak" opens Friday March 6th from 6-9pm.

This will be the first time one artist will be given both rooms of the gallery for a solo exhibit which will include new paintings, installation, sculpture and a new limited edition screen-print.

See attached press release and sample image.

Runnin' Deep
Acrylic on canvas
84 x 180 inches




Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Glancing at the Twin Peak, an exhibition of new paintings, sculpture and installation by the New York-based Japanese artist Tomokazu
Matsuyama.This is the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery.

Working in acrylic on canvas or paper,Tomokazu Matsuyama creates paintings that embrace his cultural roots with a distinctive contemporary playfulness. Influenced by both the austerity of postwar contemporary art and the unbridled extravagance of Japanese and American popular culture,Matsuyama challenges conventional ideas about cultural homogeneity, contradicting notions of “Japaneseness.”

With Glancing at the Twin Peak, the artist makes reference to two titans of Japanese and American culture, respectively—Sanraku Kano and Frederic Remington. A master of the influential Kano school of painting in the late sixteenth century, Kano depicted riders on horseback in iconic images of masculinity that typified the era Likewise, Remington, celebrated for his hypermasculine paintings of “cowboys and Indians,” spoke for a young
nation coming of age at the end of the nineteenth century.

As the stunning centerpiece of the exhibition,Matsuyama’s 7-x-15-foot mixed-media painting Runnin’ Deep synthesizes these two strains of nationalist identity into a vibrant contemporary amalgam. Riding across a snowy terrain, the artist’s “cowboys” are distinctly Japanese in appearance, while their steeds bear the artist’s colorful, stylized approach to animal forms. Similarly,Matsuyama transforms Remington’s signature bronze, The Bronco
Buster, into his own stylized likeness. His two-meter-tall fiberglass sculpture,Wherever I am, depicts a bucking horse reined in by a Playmobil-style toy figure with Asian features.

Born in Japan and later immigrating to the United States,Matsuyama’s bicultural upbringing figures prominently in his style and subject matter.The mythical, shape-shifting Kirin appears often; the creature is updated with a bouncy, kaleidoscopic abstractness, creating a pictorial dimension where ancient tales and contemporary visual design can intermingle.Appropriating fromWestern modern art history, as well as Japanese art from the Edo and Meiji eras, the artist mixes traditional icons and imagery onto a broader international canvas, including elements of Superflat, digital design, contemporary collage, and other current trends and practices.The intention, says Matsuyama, is “to blend what are considered Eastern andWestern aesthetics into one that resists categorization and cultural belonging.My work is equally pending between worlds that are not completely blended but instead still a patchwork of controlled chaos trying to evolve into something close to cosmopolitanism.”

Tomokazu Matsuyama was born 1976 in Tokyo, Japan, and currently lives and works in New York City.He received an MFA in Communications Design from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Solo exhibitions include: Polarize, FIFTY24SF Gallery, San Francisco (2007); Between the Polar,Takuro Someya Contemporary Art,Chiba, Japan (2007); among others. Selected group exhibitions include:What’s so Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding?, Esso Gallery, New York (2008); Piece of Peace, Parco Gallery,Tokyo (2008); Living Lines, J Flynn Gallery,Costa Mesa,CA (2007). Matsuyama’s first monograph, Found Modern Library,was published in 2007 by Gingko Press. His second monograph published by Panorama in Japan will release later this year.

Joshua Liner Gallery
548 W. 28th Street
3rd Floor
NY NY 10001
www.joshualinergallery.com

[JoshuaLinerGallery]

In conjunction with Tomokazu Matsuyama's upcoming solo exhibition 'Glancing at the Twin Peak' which opens on Friday March 6th, we will be releasing a new 35 color screen print titled 'Kirin'. The print is an edition of 30 that measures 24 x 30 inches and is printed on Arches Cover paper. The release price for this edition is $550. Please contact the gallery for more information or to purchase your print now.


Kirin
30 color screen-print on Arches Cover paper
24 x 30 inches
Hand signed and numbered edition of 30
$550



Joshua Liner Gallery
548 W. 28th Street
3rd Floor
NY NY 10001
www.joshualinergallery.com

[JoshuaLinerGallery]

We just received the new Matsuyama "Kirin" print from the printers.
The quality is incredible and it actually ended up being 35 colors.
Here are some pics of the print, the second pic shows the print (laying flat) with the original painting behind it.
This edition looks a Matsu painting on paper as opposed to a print.
Just wanted to share more pics, enjoy.

[JoshuaLinerGallery]

Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present East Weets Mest, an exhibition of new paintings, sculpture, and installation by the New York-based Japanese artist Tomokazu Matsuyama. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.

Press release is available for download here:

joshualinergallery.com/jlg_inventory/pressreleases/Matsu_PR-Web.pdf

Attached are several sample images. If you would like to receive the preview email please contact the gallery directly at [e-mail]

Mrs. Alpha and Mr. Omega
Acrylic on canvas
2011
72 inch diameter each




Cold Mountain and The Foundling
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
2011
60 x 48 inches each




What Still Remains
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
2011
34 inch diameter




Just With You
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
2011
42.5 x 42.5 x 3 inches

[BK83]

One of the freshest in the game!

Looking forward to the show!

[twylightpygmy]

Paper Monster still has an awesome print available by Matsuyama.

[JoshuaLinerGallery]

We still have a few of Matsu's Kirin (Black) print available:

joshualinergallery.com/booksandeditions/detail/matsuyama_kirin/larger/

A 35 color screen print in an edition of 30.

[JoshuaLinerGallery]

The show catalog is available for download here:

joshualinergallery.com//catalogs/JoshuaLinerGallery_TomokazuMatsuyama_EastWeetsMest_September2011.pdf

You can view additional installation images on our site as well:

joshualinergallery.com/exhibitions/matsuyama_east_weets_mest_september_8_2011/installationviews/

[sal]

Matsuyama is releasing this beautiful circular print via PaperMonster today:



Mr. Alpha
Edition of 50
Dimensions: Circular @ 26.5 Inches
Epson Print, 20 Color Screenprint & Hand Finishing on Archival Paper
Signed and Numbered - Matsu 2012.

more info here >

[joglu]

Thanks for posting, thatd be a great xmas present for myself...!

[The Jokers Puppet]

Anyone into Matsu's artwork should check out a new EP featuring his artwork. Bargain for the art with a decent record thrown in. Link below for Juno Records. I believe Decks or Hard Wax in Germany also stock and Downtown 161 in NY

www.juno.co.uk/products/tokyo-black-star-edo-express-ep/590296-01/

[221tkkool]

I am looking for Tomokazu Matsuyamaoriginal piece.

Please PM.

[hungry]

Anybody else excited for the new Tomokazu prints by Avant Arte coming out soon?  Both look great imo.

avantarte.com/works/shes-so-sweet-ride/

avantarte.com/works/jaded-sunshine/

[bjoern]

Mar 18, 2019 8:24:12 GMT 1 hungry said:

Anybody else excited for the new Tomokazu prints by Avant Arte coming out soon?  Both look great imo.

avantarte.com/works/shes-so-sweet-ride/

avantarte.com/works/jaded-sunshine/

thanks for sharing, they look nice. Amazing that they offer round framing option, let's see what the price tag says

[Happy Shopper]

Mar 18, 2019 9:48:17 GMT 1 bjoern said:

Mar 18, 2019 8:24:12 GMT 1 hungry said:

Anybody else excited for the new Tomokazu prints by Avant Arte coming out soon?  Both look great imo.

avantarte.com/works/shes-so-sweet-ride/

avantarte.com/works/jaded-sunshine/

thanks for sharing, they look nice. Amazing that they offer round framing option, let's see what the price tag says

I think they’re around €900ish and €400ish for framing.

[bjoern]

ok, this would be a really fair price

[tran16]

Mar 18, 2019 10:12:32 GMT 1 Happy Shopper said:

Mar 18, 2019 9:48:17 GMT 1 bjoern said:

thanks for sharing, they look nice. Amazing that they offer round framing option, let's see what the price tag says

I think they’re around €900ish and €400ish for framing.

makes the Heliotrope print (which is really nice btw) a total bargain

[Happy Shopper]

Mar 18, 2019 12:06:22 GMT 1 tran16 said:

Mar 18, 2019 10:12:32 GMT 1 Happy Shopper said:

I think they’re around €900ish and €400ish for framing.

makes the Heliotrope print (which is really nice btw) a total bargain

Smaller, unsigned and a digital print, so hard to compare, but yes... maybe!

[clau1987]

Preview of the print:

http://instagram.com/p/Buwy3Y5l8va

Price: £766 or £1100 framed

[Jameszee]

Properly nice, going for one of these! (She's so print)

[hungry]

Mar 18, 2019 9:48:17 GMT 1 bjoern said:

Mar 18, 2019 8:24:12 GMT 1 hungry said:

Anybody else excited for the new Tomokazu prints by Avant Arte coming out soon?  Both look great imo.

avantarte.com/works/shes-so-sweet-ride/

avantarte.com/works/jaded-sunshine/

thanks for sharing, they look nice. Amazing that they offer round framing option, let's see what the price tag says

It's €1150 each framed (this is for someone who is US based, so VAT was deducted). i think it's an excellent price!

[jeeves]

Wow that she’s so sweet is beautiful, I am a huge fan of his if it wasn’t round I would buy it for sure. Anyone else getting slight round print fatigue? I feel like it’s tough to have more than one on the wall and I already bought the Marc Quinn

[Shagga]

Lovely 💥

Anyone have an idea how it looks framed, in the circle frame?

[hungry]

Mar 19, 2019 4:49:24 GMT 1 Shagga said:

Lovely 💥

Anyone have an idea how it looks framed, in the circle frame?

Take a look at the Avant Arte links! They are shown framed and look excellent!

[sipps]

I'm feeling the she's so edition, thanks for sharing!