Art by Medium: Sumi Ink

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing travelers kneeling along a coastal path as the Daimyo's procession passes. Signed in Kanji lower left, "Hiroshige Ga...

Full title: Flower Bomb: My Hope Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting made with traditional practices, techniques and materials...

Full title: "Origin of Desire: A Pancake Brunch with All the Toppings " The artwork is made on a wooden panel with Japanese paper, Oguni washi, pigment, sumi and nikawa glue. It is s...

Full title: Calm Prayer for Peace The artwork is made on a wooden panel with Japanese paper, Oguni washi, pigment, sumi and nikawa glue. It is signed on the side, Japanese style. M...

Acrylic, sumi-ink on canvas Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenager....

Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting made with traditional practices, techniques and materials. She moved to Barcelona (Spain) i...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a panoramic view of the banks of Kanagawa, circa 1850. Signed in Kanji upper left, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858) and printed circa 1946 by Gihachiro Okuyama (1907-1981). An exceptionally crisp image with fresh color, printed on traditional Washi paper and showing delicate bokashi gradation of sumi ink in the foreground, horizon and upper sky. Sheet Dimensions: 10.25 H x 15.25 W inches. Travelers pass through a section of the Kanagawa post station, dominated by a variety of shops, each with views looking out over the water. A number are tea houses, outside of which stand waitresses inviting travelers inside. On the water we see several small fishing boats, as well as larger shipping vessels...

Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting made with traditional practices, techniques and materials. She moved to Barcelona (Spain) i...

Complete title: El Origen del Deseo - Buen Rollo II (The Origin of Desire - Good Vibes II) Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting...

Full title: Calmness can last forever, depending on how you perceive it Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting made with traditio...

In this contemporary landscape in sumi ink on Mylar, a peaceful forest scene reflected on a stream is intricately detailed, beautifully capturing the serenity of a walk in the woods....

In this contemporary landscape in sumi ink on Mylar, trees in a peaceful forest scene are intricately detailed, beautifully capturing the serenity of a walk in the woods. This ink d...

Full title: Origen del Deseo: Happy Rhythm 5 Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting made with traditional practices, techniques a...

In this contemporary landscape in black sumi ink on Mylar, a peaceful forest scene is intricately detailed, beautifully capturing the serenity of a walk in the woods. This ink drawi...

"Unfolding #3" is an original piece by Yoonmi Nam made from pressure printed monotypes featuring layers of unfolded package outlines, creating dimension and abstraction. This piece m...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a ferry sailing across Lake Hamana. Signed in Kanji lower right, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige (Japane...

Full title: Flower bomb: Wishing for peace in the midst of heat Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting made with traditional prac...

This abstract painting and drawing titled "Spit Out All My Air" is an original artwork by Jason Andrew Turner made of sumi ink, gouache, and copic ink on paper. Incorporating techniq...

Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting made with traditional practices, techniques and materials. She moved to Barcelona (Spain) i...

This abstract drawing titled "Around" is an original artwork by Jason Andrew Turner made of sumi ink, gouache, and copic ink on paper. The artist incorporates techniques of painting...

In this contemporary landscape in black sumi ink on Mylar, a peaceful forest scene is intricately detailed, beautifully capturing the serenity of a walk in the woods. This ink drawi...

In this contemporary landscape in black sumi ink on Mylar, a peaceful forest scene is intricately detailed, beautifully capturing the serenity of a walk in the woods. This ink drawi...

Complete title: Origin of Desire: Positive Energies Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting made with traditional practices, techn...

In this contemporary landscape in sumi ink on Mylar, trees in a peaceful forest scene are intricately detailed, beautifully capturing the serenity of a walk in the woods. This ink d...

Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting made with traditional practices, techniques and materials. She moved to Barcelona (Spain) i...

Complete title: El Origen del Deseo - Buen Rollo I (The Origin of Desire - Good Vibes I) Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting m...

"Delivered and Discarded (positives) #4" is an original wall-hanging piece by Yoonmi Nam. This piece is made from the flattening out packing boxes that the artist traces to depict t...

Hidetaka Ohno abstract expressionist painting Titled: No.2 - 1960 1960 Sumi ink on paper Measures 26 x 22.75 inches sight size, and 30.2 x 26.75 x 1 inches overall, including the fr...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of women stopping travelers in Goyu, circa 1850. Signed in Kanji lower left, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utagawa (Ando...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of travelers on the Tenryū River, circa 1850. Signed in Kanji center right, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utagawa (Ando)...

ink on New York Times Newsprint Signature is part of the artwork itself Unique This ink collage was created in 2005 -- more than a decade before the artist would join the billionaire mega-gallery David Zwirner Gallery, which signed him in 2017 This show was held at the experimental post-modern Reena Spaulings Gallery - which at the time was located at 371 Grand Street on the Lower East Side (the gallery later moved to East Houston Street) More about the hand designed promotional collage itself: It is is a hand painted, unique collage used for promoting the exhibition at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York entitled "Josh Smith: Make it Plain," held on March 13-April 11, 2005. This work was done on a section of the February 13, 2005 New York Times newspaper devoted to coverage of the Oscars -- with one part featuring an advertisement for the 2005 Warner Brothers film "Constantine", a Horror/Fantasy film featuring Keanu Reeves, who plays a demon hunter, and Rachel Weisz, who plays a policewoman in a supernatural plot based upon Hellblazer comics. Interestingly, more than two decades on, there is a sequel in the works - and the tag lines to the trailer for the Constantine 2 movie are: “Hell’s Not Just a Place, it’s a war” and “The world you’re fighting for, it’s as broken as you are. But what you’re up against now, it’s different…” The newsprint is deliberately imperfect, with natural undulations, tears to the corners, etc. - all a deliberate part of the artist's original aesthetic, and not later damage. If you want pristine, go elsewhere. This newspaper has been read, consumed, repurposed and recycled. The work itself has been floated and framed in a museum quality wood frame under plexiglass. Measurements: Framed 30 inches (vertical) by 25 inches (horizontal) by 2 inches Artwork: 27 inches (vertical) by 22 inches More about Josh Smith's "Make it Plain" show: Recently, Josh Smith himself reminisced about this very 2005 exhibition at Reena Spaulings on social media, writing: "Such good shows there. Those were the days.." Josh Smith's 2005 exhibition "Make It Plain" at Reena Spaulings was an installation-based show that explored themes of artistic production, recycling, and the "material overload" of the painting process. The exhibition, which ran in April 2005, was characterized by an immersive, somewhat chaotic environment that combined painting with installation art. Key elements and themes of the show included: "Mirror" Paintings: The show featured large "mirror paintings," which were described as painted-over rejects or, in some contexts, canvases with abstract markings, featuring colorful traces on the edges suggesting frames around an opaque reflection. "Palette" Paintings: Smith included smaller "palette paintings" that displayed the raw,, sticky, and mixed pigments remaining from other, unseen works, highlighting the labor of painting. Installation Strategy: The gallery space was filled with fifty hand-stained wooden bar stools, creating a dense, "oceanic" environment that visitors had to navigate, which served both as a way to display art and to fill the small space. Mass-Produced Imagery (Drawings): In addition to the paintings, the show featured 800 small, hand-drawn, "Expressionist" style depictions of faces on file cards that lined the walls, reflecting a theme of rapid, automatic production. Theme of Re-production: According to the gallery press materials, the exhibition explored the idea that "one painting always hides another" by re-using materials and focusing on the detritus of the creative process. The 2005 show was reviewed by the art critic Roberta Smith (no relation, apparently) of The New York Times as a "bristling Expressionist profusion" and part of a series of shows where Smith acted as both a "protean creator and Warholian machine" who likes to highlight the conventions of the gallery setting More about the elusive and conceptual "Reena Spaulings" Fine Art: Founded in 2004 by John Kelsey and Emily Sundblad, Reena Spaulings gallery was a central hub for the neighborhood's emerging art scene. Reena Spaulings is a collective project in the medium of a novel, an artist persona, and an institutional art-gallery active from 2005 to the present in New York City. The Gallery's Co-founders and Co-Directors include Carissa Rodriguez, John Kelsey and Emily Sundblad. The Reena Spaulings novel and persona remains an anonymous collective organization. The Spaulings initiative speaks to ideas of collectivity, anonymity, and artistic categorization through literature and artistic production. Reena Spaulings is a branch of the Bernadette Corporation, also based in New York City. (The Bernadette Corporation is a New York–based collective founded in 1994, working across art, fashion, film, and publishing. Originally formed by Bernadette Van-Huy, Sonny Pak, and Thuy Pham, the group’s current configuration—Van-Huy, John Kelsey, Jim Fletcher, and Antek Walczak—reflects a practice defined by shifting authorship and long-term collaboration. Over the past three decades, its members have explored processes of production while subverting the logics of cultural consumption through a distinctly (and playfully facetious) anti-corporate spirit.) More about Josh Smith In announcing its representation of Josh Smith in 2017, here's what Zwirner Gallery said about him: Smith is a New York-based painter who also works with collage, sculpture, printmaking, and books. He first became known in the early 2000s for a series of canvases depicting his own name, a motif that allowed him to experiment freely with abstraction and figuration and the expressive possibilities of painting. His work has since given way to monochromes, gestural abstractions, and varied imagery, including leaves, fish, skeletons, sunsets, and palm trees that the artist has explored in series. Smith’s work engages in a celebratory and prolific process of experimentation and refinement—upending the conventions of painting while simultaneously commanding a deep awareness of its history. The artist has noted, "I make art for myself, to see what it will look like. I also effectively let viewers, myself included, take or leave what they want. The message is indefinable, but the gist of it is; we are alive, and here together….Here is a group of painted poems, if you like…take a look and absorb what you want from them." As stated by David Zwirner, "I have been following Josh’s work for some time and look forward to presenting it at the gallery. A true ‘artist’s artist,’ his work across different media conveys a playful reverence for painting, dynamically asserting its continued relevance. It’s exciting to think about his work in dialogue with the other artists we represent." American artist Josh Smith was born in 1976 in Okinawa, Japan. Smith’s father was in the U.S. Army, and his family moved frequently, eventually settling in East Tennessee, where the artist mostly grew up. His work has been presented in numerous solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including at the Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (2016); Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome (2015); the Zabludowicz Collection, London (2013); The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut (2011); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva (2009); De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, The Netherlands (2009-2010); Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok), Vienna (2008); and SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York (2004). Smith’s work has also been included in important group exhibitions such as Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, which opened at the Museum Brandhorst, Munich, and subsequently traveled to the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok), Vienna (2015-2016); The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2014-2015); The Painting Factory...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of travelers in Shono, circa 1850. Beside the path, a grove of trees is si...

"Delivered and Discarded (negatives) #4" is an original wall-hanging piece by Yoonmi Nam. This piece is made from the flattening out packing boxes that the artist traces to depict t...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing travelers moving through Sayo Mountain Pass. Signed in Kanji upper left, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige...

Cricket on Branch - 2nd Generation Lingnan School Bird and Flower Painting Beautifully executed painting of a cricket on a branch by Zhao Shao'ang 趙少昂 (Chinese b. 1905 d. 1998.) Thi...

Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting made with traditional practices, techniques and materials. She moved to Barcelona (Spain) i...

“What he has learned from the art of the museums, Cobb has fully assimilated and modified in the development of his own personal vision. And while enriched by these historical perspe...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing the summer horse fair, which Chiryu was well known for. Every summer, horse traders would bring near 500 horses to m...

Chaco Terada, originally from Japan, was trained at a young age in the art of calligraphy. When Chaco was in her twenties she had the opportunity to work on her calligraphy in ten co...

Full title: "The Pattern of Origin of Desire: Peaceful Rhythm - C" The artwork is made on a wooden panel with Japanese paper, Oguni washi, pigment, sumi and nikawa glue. It is signed...

Brake, unique photograph on silk with sumi ink brushwork Chaco Terada's relationship with photo-eye dates back about 15 years. Over this period I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to ...

Chaco Terada, originally from Japan, was trained at a young age in the art of calligraphy. When Chaco was in her twenties she had the opportunity to work on her calligraphy in ten co...

This is a unique mixed media piece: it is a hand-painted botanical abstract colorful shape upon a background that is a cyanotype print of a cloudy texture, giving it a modern, abstract geometric feel that will look great in contemporary and classic homes and businesses. Details: + Title: Turquoise Leaf...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of travelers passing beside a tea-house between steep slopes in Okabe, Shi...

This is an archival pigment print on 3 layers of silk organza with sumi ink and mineral pigments. In 2019, Valley House Gallery presented our first exhibition of work by Chaco Terad...

"Geometric Bloom" is a hand-painted acrylic painting on high-quality 300g paper by artist Ryan Rivadeneyra. This series focuses on geometric patterns and combinations of shapes to f...

My work uses the Japanese and Chinese calligraphic characters that I have practiced since childhood. I take a line from one character, and when that brushstroke is made it tells me w...

"Swim is a hand-painted acrylic painting on high-quality 300g paper by artist Ryan Rivadeneyra. The hand-drawn render is reminiscent and inspired by the word art that Ed Ruscha produ...

Chaco Terada, originally from Japan, was trained at a young age in the art of calligraphy. When Chaco was in her twenties she had the opportunity to work on her calligraphy in ten co...

“Open no. 4” (2015) is an oil a contemporary abstract sumi ink on canvas painting by American artist, Luc Bernard. A color field artist, Luc explores his ideas while embracing minim...

Valley House Gallery recently presented "Listening in the Silence" — our first solo exhibition of work by Chaco Terada, a native of Japan who has called Dallas home since 1992. Born ...

Chaco Terada, originally from Japan, was trained at a young age in the art of calligraphy. When Chaco was in her twenties she had the opportunity to work on her calligraphy in ten co...

SAKURA Front 2, unique photograph on silk with sumi ink brushwork Chaco Terada, originally from Japan, was trained at a young age in the art of cal...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of travelers admiring Mt. Fudesute in Sakanoshita. Signed in Kanji lower left, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utagawa (An...

In this contemporary landscape in black sumi ink on Mylar, a peaceful forest scene is intricately detailed, beautifully capturing the serenity of a walk in the woods. This ink drawi...

Forest Landscape in Sumi Ink on Paper High contrast abstracted landscape by an unknown artist "Shmitt" (20th Century). The edge of a forest is shown in bold strokes of sumi ink, cre...

Chaco Terada, originally from Japan, was trained at a young age in the art of calligraphy. When Chaco was in her twenties she had the opportunity to work on her calligraphy in ten countries as a part of the cultural exchange programs, Up with People and The Ship for World Youth. When her time with those groups ended she moved to the United States, where she discovered photography and started incorporating it with calligraphy. Chaco has led demonstrations and has taught calligraphy workshops at the Dallas Museum of Art, The Crow Asian Art Museum, Greenhill School, and Saint Mark’s School of Texas among others. Chaco’s artwork has been exhibited in Dallas, Santa Fe, New York and Los Angeles and Paris. Process Statement My work uses the Japanese and Chinese calligraphic characters that I have practiced since childhood. I take a line...

Chaco Terada, originally from Japan, was trained at a young age in the art of calligraphy. When Chaco was in her twenties she had the opportunity to work on her calligraphy in ten co...

Chaco Terada, originally from Japan, was trained at a young age in the art of calligraphy. When Chaco was in her twenties she had the opportunity to work on her calligraphy in ten co...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a samurai and his porter enjoying the shade of a Japanese pine tree while waiting for tea, circa 1850. Signed in Kan...