Mirrors by Yuri Shimojo: JSB member gallery visit

Mirrors by Yuri Shimojo: 

JSB member gallery visit

Friday, December 20, 2024

4:00 PM EST

(In Person)

About the Event:

In collaboration with Praise Shadows Art Gallery, we are excited to announce a JSB member gallery visit to view the current exhibition by Yuri Shomojo, titled Mirrors. 

As a group, we will enjoy the pieces on display and the artist will be present to give a walkthrough of the exhibit, discuss her work, and answer some questions. 

We will be there for an hour, but you are welcome to stay until the gallery closes, 7pm on Fridays. 

Spaces are limited so sign up while you can! You may register with one guest. If you are not a JSB member, you can sign up here.

*Please note that online only members can attend the online member only events but not the in person member events.

About the artist:

Yuri Shimojo is a Tokyo-born, contemporary Japanese painter who lives and works between New York and Kyoto. The last descendent of her samurai clan who lost all of her immediate family members before the age of 30, Shimojo has always used painting to express the interconnected emotions of impermanence. With minimal formal training in fine art, her style is grounded in the traditional Japanese performing arts practice in her upbringing. Using traditional Japanese watercolor and inks, her work combines the abstract and the surreal, working through the lens of universal compassion. Before she situated her studio on the sacred mountain in Kyoto, she spent many years in Hawaii studying indigenous healing practices and spirituality. Her publication includes a memoir of her unique childhood with her late family. She has exhibited in the United States and Japan and is in private collections around the world. Her work and storyline are featured in the documentary film "The Colour of Ink." (2022) Learn more about Yuri Shimojo.

About the gallery: 

Praise Shadows Art Gallery is a contemporary art program based in the Boston area with a focus on exceptional artists working in all artistic disciplines. Their worldview is informed by the notion that the artworld's untapped and unrecognized potential is worth cultivating, supporting, and championing. Since their founding in December 2020, the gallery has placed artworks by their artists in esteemed public collections, and exhibitions have been covered widely in major international media outlets. Their work is grounded by partnering closely with artists to develop opportunities in traditional and emerging models of creativity and entrepreneurship — exhibitions, commissions, brand partnerships, new technologies, and original concepts that no one has ever tried before. 

“Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, from the book In Praise of Shadows (1933)

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