RYO NISHIMURA
ELEMENTS
10 September - 29 October 2022
Peter Augustus is pleased to present Elements, the gallery’s first show of the fall season with Japanese artist Ryo Nishimura. This is the artist’s first show in the United States.
Nishimura was born in 1993 in Kyoto, Japan, and currently lives and works in the region. He is a graduate of Kyoto Seika University with a focus on Printmaking, and received his master’s in Printmaking at the Kyoto City University of Arts.
Much of Nishimura’s practice involves working in the field surrounded by the elements, far outside of the constraints of a studio setting. The artist further differentiates his method from other printmakers by using power tools as well as traditional hand tools to create his vibrant lines and deep groves. It is with this process that Nishimura “traces” live scenes in nature directly on acrylic panels, documenting a sequence that exists only for a brief period of time. While the scene is captured, its ability to be reproduced diminishes with each print Nishiura runs through the press, returning full circle to the fragility of nature that the artist is documenting.
For Elements, the artist created several printing plates around the shoreline of Dallas’ White Rock Lake and produced prints while in residence at Texas Christian University’s printing facility in Fort Worth.
The artist also favors the use of photographs - be it from nature, such as a landscape image, or a staged photograph the artist took. In preparation for this exhibition, the artist made use of Ikebana images from Kōyō Ikebana Hyakuheizu, a book of illustrations dating to the late 1700s by Zeshinken Ichiro. A selection of these prints will be on view.
Nishimura’s work is collected by the Harvard Art Museums, the Portland Art Museum, and the Los Angeles Museum of Art (LACMA), as well as several museums throughout Japan. He has been the subject of several solo exhibitions, including: Moments (2018), Taku Sometani Gallery; Nishimura (2018); The Tolman Collection Tokyo; Morpho-iconogenesis, Taku Sometani Gallery (2019); Melody of Life, Artzone Kaguraoka (2020); Chain Fluctuations, Taku Sometani Gallery (2021); Tracing of Rut, Artzone Kaguraoka (2022); and select group shows, including: Kyoto City University of Arts Annual Exhibition 2016, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; The 10th KOCHI International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Ino-cho Paper Museum; KINO PRINT 2019, Gallery hillgate; LINES; eN arts (2019), Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2020; The Museum of Kyoto; Pulse, Galerie Ashiya Schule (2021); NEW INTIMACIES WILD WILD WEST, Gallery PARC (2022).
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AVAILABLE WORKS:
Our Body 2
2017
Sirius Paper and Copper Printaking Ink
Approx 29.5 x 41.5 in (750 x 1055 mm)
Edition of 1
USD 3000
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Our Body 1
2017
Sirius Paper and Copper Printaking Ink
Approx 30 x 42 in (768 x 1072 mm)
Edition of 1
USD 3000
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Measuring of Beats 39
2022
Artpost Paper + Pastel + Graphite Crayon
Approx 31 x 43 in (790 x 1088 mm)
Edition of 1
USD 3000
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Measuring of Beats 38
2022
Artpost Paper + Pastel + Graphite Crayon
Approx 43 x 31 in (1088 x 790 mm)
Edition of 1
USD 3000
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Back Where You Came From
2022
White Watson Paper and Copper Printmaking Ink
Approx 39 x 62 in (992 x 1584 mm)
Edition of 1
SOLD
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Pulse 2
2022
White Watson Paper and Copper Printmaking Ink
Approx 39 x 64 (992 x 1624 mm)
Edition of 1
USD 5000
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Trace The Rut 4 (scene from White Rock Lake)
2022
Sirius Paper and Copper Printmaking Ink
Approx 15 x 21 in (382 x 543 mm)
Edition of 3
USD 1000
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Trace The Rut 5 (scene from White Rock Lake)
2022
Sirius Paper and Copper Printmaking Ink
Approx 15 x 21 in (382 x 543 mm)
Edition of 3
USD 1000
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Trace The Rut 6 (scene from White Rock Lake)
2022
Sirius Paper and Copper Printmaking Ink
Approx 15 x 21 in (382 x 543 mm)
Edition of 3
USD 1000
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Trace The Rut 7
2022
BKF Rives and Copper Printmaking Ink
Approx 21.5 x 30 in (546 x 762 mm)
Edition of 4
USD 1500
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Room 2 Floor:
Ikebana 1
2022
Sirius Paper and Copper Printmaking Ink
Approx 9.5 x 7 in (240 x 180 mm)
Edition of 2
USD 750
Ikebana 2
2022
Sirius Paper and Copper Printmaking Ink
Approx 9.5 x 7 in (240 x 180 mm)
Edition of 2
USD 750
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Ikebana 3
2022
Sirius Paper and Copper Printmaking Ink
Approx 9.5 x 7 in (240 x 180 mm)
Edition of 2
USD 750
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Ikebana 4
2022
White Watson Paper and Copper Printmaking Ink
Approx 14 x 11 in (362 x 280 mm)
Edition of 5
USD 850
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Ikebana 5
2022
White Watson Paper and Copper Printmaking Ink
Approx 14 x 11 in (362 x 280 mm)
Edition of 5
USD 850
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Ikebana 5
2022
White Watson Paper and Copper Printmaking Ink
Approx 14 x 12.5 in (364 x 320 mm)
Edition of 2
USD 850
Room 2 Walls:
Melting
2017
Sirius Paper and Copper Printmaking Ink
Approx 40.5 x 28 in (1024 x 710 mm)
Edition of 1
USD 3000
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Melting 1
2022
Sirius Paper and Copper Printmaking Ink
Approx 21.5 x 15 in (543 x 382 mm)
Edition of 3
USD 1000
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Melting 2
2022
Sirius Paper and Copper Printmaking Ink
Approx 21.5 x 15 in (543 x 382 mm)
Edition of 3
USD 1000
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Melting 3
2022
Sirius Paper and Copper Printmaking Ink
Approx 21.5 x 15 in (543 x 382 mm)
Edition of 3
USD 1000
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Piece of Breath
2022
White Watson Paper and Copper Printmaking Ink
Approx 14.5 x 20 in (370 x 508 mm)
Edition of 2
USD 1250
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