American photographer Ricky Powell is well known for his hip hop and New York nightlife chronicles in silver print. Born and raised in New York City, Powell has been in the right place at the right moment for over thr...

JACOB HASHIMOTO

2016.10.6　 Text: Aya Shomura

An artist, Jacob Hashimoto's solo exhibition “The First Known Map of The Moon” started at Mary Boone Gallery located in 5th Avenue New York. His works – occupying a place between painting and sculpture – bear resembla...

DEANNE CHEUK

2015.4.16　 Text: Yoshiko Kurata

Deanne Cheuk is an art director and artist based in New York. She works on various facets of design including art direction, graphics, typography, illustration, print and motion. Previously the art director of TOKION ...

KAN YASUDA

2014.5.7　 Text: Mike Sullivan

Kan Yasuda is originally from Bibai in Hokkaido and studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He has a studio in Pietrasanta in nothern Italy and in Japan...

LEE RANALDO

2014.5.7　 Text: Victor Moreno

The 33rd "Greatest Guitarist of All Time" according to Rolling Stone magazine, Lee Ranaldo is a creative mind in a constant state of experimentation. Like his bandmates in Sonic Youth, his collaborative spirit can’t g...

MEGUMI SASAKI

2013.4.26　 Text: Miki Matsumoto

A fairy tale-like documentary movie called “Herb and Dorothy” came out in 2008 that followed a real art collecting couple, Mr. and Mrs. Vogel. Postal clerk, Herb, and librarian, Dorothy, had been purchasing art over t...

TOMOKAZU MATSUYAMA

2013.3.7　 Text: Yuji Shinfuku

Identity is transforming with the global changes in the world. Tomokazu Matsuyama inherits the traditions of Japanese painting while fascinating viewers by switching between street art and contemporary art. I w...

AYAKA ITO

2012.11.26　 Text: Yuji Shinfuku

Vivid colorful salmon by handmade using pencils. Portrait photographs which has scribbled lines created with programmer. A large variety of her works have many characteristics and aspects and they captivate us beyond ...

THURSTON MOORE AND MATS GUSTAFSSON

2012.10.16　 Text: Victor Moreno

Thurston Moore cannot stay idle, like the other components of Sonic Youth, when they don’t play together they are involved in some other thousand different projects. Although Thurston continues touring due to his solo...

D2

2012.7.19　 Text: Hanae Watanabe

New York based artists/designers group of four men is called " D2 ". It was a year ago when they started on creative works. Aside from creating one of a kind furnitures, clothes, objects, they also participate in tra...

CHRISTIAN JOY

2012.6.3　 Text: Satsuki Miyanishi

“Do androids dream of electric shrimp?” The exhibition by costume designer, Christian Joy who works on costumes of Yeah Yeah Yeah’s charismatic singer, Karen O at DIESEL ART GALLERY. In addition to Karen O's perfor...

KATHY GRAYSON

2011.11.11　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio

I first meet Kathy when she was working at Deitch Projects Gallery a few years ago… it was briefly cause they were organizing the Amazing Art Parade project and also a big exhibition called "Mail Order Monsters"… I wa...