Sorry for the delayed greeting.

Thank you for coming to our (Yumiko Furukawa and me) exhibition in September 2011. I hope to inform you about my next exhibition sometime in the future.

I’m wishing you and your family all the luck of life, health and happiness throughout 2012.

Warm regards, Mael Nohara

Thank you for everyone who had enjoyed my art works at JaNet Hall and support me with kindness.
An exhibition with Yumiko Furukawa has closed on October 11.

Today I posted a new art work to “Misc.” portfolio.
Yes, I love Chris Hemsworth’s Thor so much!!

I hope you’ll enjoy it, too!

Two pieces are printed in Giclee, one piece is printed in Ultra Chrome Ink by Epson.

Also, I’ve hang another two piece, “Pray for Japan” and “The Truth Beneath The Surface“.
All pieces are selling with no-tax and good price!

For more information about this exhibition, please visit here.

Place: JaNet Hall
2 West 47th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10036
On Exhibit: Saturday, September 10 through Monday, October 3, 2011
Time: Monday to Friday, 11:00 am to 6:00 pm
*early closing on some days

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 10th, 5:00-7:30 pm

Join us for a new exhibition titled, “New Constellation,” by two artists, Yumiko Furukawa and Mael Nohara, at the new multi-purpose space in JaNet Hall, located off Fifth Avenue in the diamond district of Manhattan.

The two artists met through “Igyoshu Kouryuukai (Name Card Exchange Party for Different Professions)” sponsored by JaNet, as they have inspired each other and developed a bond over the years, while going on a trip to Art Basel Miami Beach together.

Furukawa, working with watercolor, oil and acrylics, composes paintings with jewel-like color and texture. While Nohara, wielding a digital brush, produces ethereal portraits on her computer screen, where the glowing pixels flow like lava.

The exhibit aims to contrast the two worlds of analogue and digital, as the two worlds collide and meld at the same time into a shining new constellation of each artist’s work.

Artist profile

Yumiko Furukawa

Born in Aizuwakamatsu City in Fukushima, she now calls New York home. Yumiko joined the International Residency Program of Location One in SoHo as a grant recipient of Asian Cultural Council in 2004. After receiving Ph.D. from Tokyo University of the arts’s graduate program, she returned to the United States as an artist and researcher with a support of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japanese Government in 2007. She has remained in New York since, creating installation pieces in paintings and sculptures that bridges visual and literary expressions. One of her major exhibits included Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003 and her solo exhibit titled, “Flicker” at Gallery Side 2 in 2006. She is scheduled to join the exhibit at Aizu Urushi Art festival 2011 : Yell to Tohoku sponsored by Fukushima Museum, where she is preparing a huge serpents sculpture and lacquered tea bowl adorned with the theme from local folklore.

http://www.yumikofurukawa.com/

Mael Nohara

Born in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward and raised in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, she grew up immersed in subcultures such as manga, anime and rock’n’roll music. While working as a professional illustrator in Japan for various media including op-ed pieces and advertisings, she was active in group exhibit circuit and commercial art for a theater group, receiving numerous awards. After moving to the United States in 2001, she started employing calligraphy techniques as she showed her works at Sci-Fi/fantasy/game conventions in and around US. Her first solo exhibit took place in 2005 in New York. Later, she switched from analogue paintings to digital using pen tablet in 2008, but continues her works in haunting fantasy-based portraitures that are both homage and her own creation.

http://maelstromarts.com/

Now I’m starting a new painting. I think it would be Túrin Turambar’s.
Keep your eyes on!

R.I.P. all victims of 3.11 earthquake and tsunami.
I’ve been praying for my lovely and beautiful country, Japan.

I hope this art work would give warm feelings and a big hug to all people who has been doing something for recovery.

I’ve drawn those two characters from Japanese Manga “Toward the Terra (or To Terra…)” by Keiko Takemiya (she’s the one famous Japanese Manga artists). That one is my great masterpiece of young era. I’ve been loving those characters, Keith (L) and Shiroë (R) for a long time.
I think this Sci-Fi Manga is also a masterpiece of Japanese Manga!

You can read that Manga in English. Here’s a link to Amazon.

The based image has came from a song of Kamelot’s "House on a Hill". I love such mystical and tragic atmosphere of that song.

I’ve drawn my loved original vampire, Fawler.
He manifests himself and his secret thoughts from the abandoned past, like that picture.

The list of art works (4 pieces) is below.

From “Les Arcanes : Digital”

• The Chosen One and His Guardian Angel
• Profonde, Silensieuse, Complète
• The Haunting
• La Princesse Epineux

All art works are limited edition, and matted / framed.

Also, I’ll exhibit at the Art Show of Comic-Con International 2010 in next month (July 22 – 25 at San Diego, CA).

The list of art works is below.

From “Les Arcanes : Digital”

• L’impardonné
• The Chosen One and His Guardian Angel (NEW at CCI!!)
• Les Jardinierès (NEW at CCI!!)
• Profonde, Silensieuse, Complète
• The Haunting (NEW at CCI!!)
• La Princesse Epineux
• Les Chasseurs de la Nuit

From “Les Arcanes : Analog”

• Fawler the Golden Eyes

All art works are limited edition, and matted / framed.