NADA Miami: Nobutaka Aozaki
December 5–8, 2019
Booth P06
Nobutaka Aozaki, Grocery Portraits #1 (Classon Ave & Willoughby St, Brooklyn, September 30, 2018), 2019. 23 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches / 59.1 x 39.4 cm, Archival pigment print and found shopping list.
Ulterior Gallery is pleased to present a solo presentation of works by Nobutaka Aozaki. Originally from Japan and now living in New York, Aozaki works with objects and ephemera that he discovers in the city, musing over and reconceptualizing these sources in an attempt to imagine and establish contact between the city, the lives of others, and the artist himself. His receptivity as someone from elsewhere (i.e., an immigrant) creates moments of unexpected intuition as he reconceives these mundane objects to bring to light hidden poetic connections between all the strangers navigating the bustle and craziness of urban life.
Nobutaka Aozaki received his MFA from Hunter College, New York, NY in 2012, and has participated in numerous residency programs including such as the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Queens Museum Studio Program, and LMCC's Workspace Residency Program. He has exhibited his works at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx, NY; Queens Museum, Queens, NY; SculptureCenter, Queens, NY; ISCP, Brooklyn, NY; Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA; Void +, Tokyo, Japan; SPERLING, Munich, Germany; and SPIKE, Berlin, Germany. Aozaki's sculpture, Street Can: Diet Coke (12 fl oz) (04/03/2014 Red Hook, Brooklyn) (2014), was added to the Dallas Museum of Art's permanent collection in 2019.
For any inquiries about the availability or the artist, please contact gallery director Takako Tanabe: takako@ulteriorgallery.com
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