Current Exhibition

Alicia Adamerovich, Kadar Brock, Christopher Daharsh

Alicia Adamerovich / Kadar Brock / Christopher Daharsh

Hayama Artist Residency Exhibition 2024

6/28 - 7/27/2024
Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 12:00-19:00
Closed: Sunday - Tuesday
Artist Reception：6/28 (Friday) 17:00-19:00

KOKI ARTS presents the Hayama Artist Residency Exhibition 2024, featuring recent works by Alicia Adamerovich, Kadar Brock, and Christopher Daharsh. The three artists were selected from over 1,000 residency applicants from around the world. The exhibition is curated by Dexter Wimberly, Founder and Director of the Hayama Artist Residency.

Alicia Adamerovich draws and paints abstract, shadow-filled scenes whose undulating shapes are informed by Surrealism as well as by the symbolist compositions of Hilma af Klint. Her paintings respond to the natural world and that of science fiction; they are populated by twisting biomorphic forms that cast ink-black shadows or radiate with bright white internal light. Adamerovich first makes studies with pastel on paper before translating these compositions to canvas. She builds texture onto her stretched canvas supports with multiple layers of pumice, gels, sand, and paint to achieve uncanny effects of surface, depth, and atmosphere.

Christopher Daharsh’s practice functions as a visual filter to his pedestrian and nomadic experiences in natural and built environments. He is searching for a level of empathy with his environment through crowdsourced mark making and the slow hand of geological time. Painterly and sculptural composites come into being in the studio tethered to the scaffolding of various forms of pictorial and assemblage traditions, using observations and objects from his excursions in the field, creating a larger, mutated whole.

Kadar Brock's process consists of un-stretching and scraping down his representational paintings. He coats the ground in a primer-sealer, then sands the surface down to create textured and patinated surfaces that hint in fragments to the original painting. Brock then paints another image and the process is repeated. Brock’s own life has moved on from the experiences of the past, but as his works highlight, the past is a key to make better sense of the present. The continuous process of re-imaging and erasing one's own experiences is something we do every day, our view of the world is shaped by the fragments of memory and lived experience in our minds. For Brock this process manifests in works that stand still with time, all the info and none at all, together in one beautifully complex surface of record.

About Hayama Artist Residency

In 2020, American curator, Dexter Wimberly launched the Hayama Artist Residency in Japan. The 4-week long residency introduces visual artists from around the world to Japanese culture and offers them an opportunity to have their first gallery exhibition in Japan. Artists are not required to create new work during their residency. They are encouraged to use their time in Japan to plan for their future and develop new ideas. Hayama is a town in Kanagawa Prefecture, on central Honshū, Japan. It is located at the northern end of Miura Peninsula, facing Sagami Bay on the Pacific Ocean. Hayama has an estimated population of 33,000 people. Since 1894, the Japanese Imperial Family has maintained a residence in Hayama, the seaside Hayama Imperial Villa. More information at: www.hayamaresidency.com