From little kids with suggestions for what color to use next, to grown ups who want to know all about my process, I bump into the most interesting people here. Last week a real highlight occurred, when fashion designer Marjorie Nezin stopped by.
I’m happy to announce that I’m launching a new collaborative project with PAPABUBBLE JAPAN this coming week… My work, “Sweet Vessels” series (which I worked on during MAD residency program) will be on display at PAPABUBBLE Shibuya store.
I would like to highlight a Japanese artist/designer Tokujin Yoshioka. It probably isn’t the first word you’d associate Tokukin Yoshioka with, but “emotion” is the very thing that drives his art.
She was spotted at MAD over the holiday period…she may now be at The Brick Theater until January 14th…
Only in Japan would a cracked and slightly misshapen tea cup be seen as a symbol of the nation’s cultural and aesthetic legacy. These works are known commonly as Raku ware, due to the firing process and its traditional ties to the Japanese tea ceremony.
I am preparing for a solo show in March ( details to follow) and I have several pieces in process at the moment. Last week at MAD I was working on a more abstract ” pile” piece which consisted of numerous facted gemstones and spikes.
An emerging American youth culture electrified the craft movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Through music, drugs, and dress this generation expressed alternatives to the status quo. Many overwhelmingly rejected the corporate ladder of their parents’ generation to find satisfaction in the craftsmen lifestyle. Come see Crafting Modernism before it closes on January 15th.
For this post, I will discuss the fabulous Rei Kuwabuko, the name behind the Commes des Garcons house for over 40 years!
Kuwabuko’s work is less about color and patterns (a consistent theme with these three designers is the prevalence of black), and more about the subversion of the garment: her work is often asymmetrical, unfinished and often startlingly malformed.
“Beauty in All Things” is an important concept for designers who create beauty that can be worn, such as fashion innovators Issey Miyake (b.1938), Yohji Yamamoto (b.1943) and Rei Kuwakubo (b.1942). These three designers all grew up in the immediate post-war landscape, where the transition from traditional artistry to technological manufacturing was keenly observed. As a result, their clothing challenges the limits of each method of production, creating a modernist hybridized form that simultaneously references and subverts these methods.
Hello! This is David Choi, I am one of the open studio artists at MAD. I would like to share my works here briefly.
I’ve been interested in re-contextualizing the purpose of industrial material such as steel to explore new codes of beauty.
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