Introducing Lena Takamori: In Hand, On Foot

Lena Takamori In Hand, On Foot

Introducing Lena Takamori: In Hand, On Foot August 28th-September 25th, 2021

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In Hand, On Foot Lucy Lacoste Gallery Introduces Lena Takamori Lucy Lacoste Gallery is very pleased to present Introducing Lena Takamori: In Hand, On Foot August 28 – September 25, 2021, in Concord MA. This is the artist’s first US solo exhibition. Through sculpture, this body of work explores the carrying of belongings and the idea of a ground level journey. The work examines the act of being in-between as both a physical experience with its own logistical challenges, and also as a state of being in the world.

Lena Takamori (b.1990 in Seattle, Washington) is an artist with a background in sculpture. She received her BFA from the Cooper Union in New York and has also studied at Kyoko Seika University in Japan.

Takamori currently resides in Bristol, England where she maintains her studio practice. She has shown with Kunstforum Solothurn in Switzerland since 2017. Her work can be seen in the collection of the Musée Ariana (Ariana Museum), Geneva, Switzerland.

As Lucy Lacoste states: "I am very pleased to introduce Lena Takamori in her first solo exhibition in the US. She speaks thoughtfully with her own voice, as a contemporary woman, from the perspective of her American and Japanese roots. She is an artist with a big future ahead."

Every Bag Every bag needs to be put down eventually. We hope to arrive before then. But with every departure is an imagined arrival.

The hovering, suspended space, the inability to rest, the act of being inbetween.

And in the bags? Tools maybe - tokens of the past - or maybe snacks for the road?

Things that make sense to me - specifically me - and therefore I call them mine, and I keep them close at hand - zipped up and attached to me.

Once actively in-between, let me try not to touch the ground too much, or as little as possible. And I want to keep my bags off the ground too. It can be a precarious space, in-between.

Sometimes the decision to depart is made without our choosing, and an island is swallowed up by the sea. Maybe somewhere else an island breaks through the water’s surface.

It’s possible we don’t end up where we imagined.

Our path may look like many small in-betweens dotted between harbors.

Or, in a more ultimate sense, just one long in-between and one final destination.

A tree in transit - round root ball bundled in burlap.

Or a miniature planet, home to a single tree - making its slow orbit.

-Lena Takamori, 21

Lena Takamori Woman with Suitcases, 2021 Stoneware 18.50h x 10.50w x 6d in

Lena Takamori Detail of Woman with Suitcases, 2021 Stoneware 18.50h x 10.50w x 6d in

Lena Takamori Watching Woman, 2021 Stoneware 11h x 8.50w x 10.25d in

Lena Takamori Bending with Backpack, 2021 Stoneware 13.50h x 7w x 11d

Lena Takamori Conversation in the Wind, 2021 Stoneware 11h x 12.50w x 7.25d in

Lena Takamori Blanketed Woman, 2021 Stoneware 6.25h x 16.75w x 9d in

Lena Takamori Double Cloud, 2021 Stoneware 11.50h x 22w x 11.50d in

Lena Takamori Grove View, 2021 Stoneware 13h x 15.50w x 8d in

Photo Credit: Gabriiel Carroll Conlon

Lena Takamori b.1990 Seattle, Washington, USA EDUCATION 2012 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, BFA, New York, NY, USA 2011 Kyoto Seika University, International Exchange, Kyoto, Japan SELECT EXHIBITIONS 2021 Introducing Lena Takamori: In Hand, On Foot, Lucy Lacoste Gallery, Concord MA (Solo Show) 2020 Inner Landscapes, Kunstforum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland (Solo Show) 2019 Alchemy, Centre Space Gallery, Bristol, UK 2018 Bubble Wrap - Ceramics and Painting Show, Front Art Space, New York, NY, USA 2018 Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, Kunstforum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland 2017 Holiday Pop Up Show, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA 2016 Home Audio Concert Series, Art Installation, March, May & October concerts, New York, NY, USA 2015 Home Audio Concert Series, Art Installation, November concert, New York, NY, USA

2014 Same As Billing Address, 1960 Rue Sherbrooke Est, Montreal, QC, Canada The Clothesline Show, ABC NO RIO, New York, NY, USA Overhead, Open Studio, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA 2013 A Very Warm House, Ferro Strouse Gallery, New York, NY, USA 2012 Wayfarers, Wayfarers Gallery, New York, NY, USA Space, Power, Lighting Etc., La Ma Ma La Galleria, New York, NY, USA Outlived By a Pot, The Cooper Union, New York, NY (Solo Thesis Show), USA 2011 3P Exhibition, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan 2010 6th Kiwa Exhibition Juried Print Show, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan AWARDS 2015 Robert W. Simpson Fellowship, Millay Arts 2012 The Elliot Lash Memorial Prize for Excellence in Sculpture 2011 Helen Dubroff Dorfman Travel Scholarship for study in Germany 2008 The Cooper Union For Advancement of Science and Art Full Tuition Scholarship 2008 Women in Film Scholarship Seattle

RESIDENCIES 2016 The Dragon’s Egg, Mystic, CT, USA 2015 The Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY, USA 2012 Arts Letter and Numbers, Art & Architecture Workshop, Albany, NY, USA TIME-BASED WORKS 2016 Beheld, performance, created with Coco Karol, Sxip Shirley and Rakiya Orange -Triskelion Arts Center, New York, NY, USA Landing On Lesvos, audio documentary, created with Jasmine Stein and Martina Lanfranchi -The Base, New York, NY, USA 2015 Walking Long Towards the Sky, film, created with Jasmine Stein -Village Drums of Freedom Festival, St. James, Trinidad -Flux Thursday, Flux Factory, New York, NY, USA 2011 The Wailing Marching Band, performance, feat. The Himalayas and created with Jasmine Stein -The Cooper Union, New York, NY, USA COLLECTIONS Musée Ariana (Ariana Museum), Geneva, Switzerland

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