Mari Inukai

Cerasoli : LeBasse hosted the opening of Blender, its first show since the merger, last night (10.11). The group show featured the work of Melissa Haslam, Vincent Hui, Mari Inukai (above), Ryuichi Ogino (Ogi), Deth P Sun, Jennifer Davis and Suzanne Sattler. Additionally, Ogi presented a mixed-media wall installatioin featuring drawings, and hand-made clay figures.

The show offered a good a variety of work on display.  Melissa Haslam’s paintings proved to be extremely popular – all her piece were red dotted.  Suazanne Sattler’s pencil drawings are quite detailed and reward up close viewing with unexpected and slightly gruesome details (an animal being deconstructed layer by layer as an example). Finally, fans of Deth P. Sun need to check out his newest work – it’s bigger and more rendered than ever before while still retaining the quirky quality he’s known for.

Blender was a nice beginning to what we hope  will be a long string of success at Cerasoli: LeBasse. Be sure to click through for more pics of opening night.

Cerasoli : LeBasse
8530-B Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232

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Ryuichi Ogino better known as Ogi is in town from Tokyo for Blender, the debut group show at the newly transformed Cerasoli : LeBasse gallery. DailyduJour caught up with Ogi as he was working on his mixed-media installation featuring paintings, drawings on paper, an army of his hand-sculpted clay figures and more (expect a multimedia angle with a tv on the floor).

In addition to the installation, Ogi has four large pieces in the show.  This work is a reaction to Takashi Murakami’s  heavily infuential superflat movement.  Ogi explained that superflat is not just about flatness in terms of dimensionality — the removal of highs and lows, but is also about a removal of “context”.  His new work seeks to reaffirm the importance of context by employing ‘mash-up’ techniques to varying degrees.  In the extreme example, Ogi presents three stark contexts — a black panel, a figurative panel and then a colored square pattern panel.

Blender featuring the art of Ryuichi Ogino and several other artists opens this Saturday October 11th @ Cerasol : LeBasse in Culver City, CA.

Cerasoli : LeBasse
8530-B Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232

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