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The Bhutanese have a special word to describe the long process of creating hand loomed textiles, – Hingham – which means “Heart Weaving”.

CONTENTS

4. Concept / EMBRACING2022 6-9. Introduction to artists 12-13. Lunch 14-15. Dinner 17. Drinks 19. Credits 20. Art prices

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JANUARY 4th – FEBRUARY 28th, 2022

EMBRACING 2022

As we head into the new year, THE GALLERY is delighted to present EMBRACING 2022. Featuring emerging female artists: Kimia Kline, Mel Reese, Kathy Sirico, and Tomoko Sugimoto. Their specialties include using threads to create conceptual artwork and multicolor paintings on objects.

The 2020s began with many uncertainties in many different aspects, and all of us might have experienced a lot of ups and downs in the first 2 years. Even in this day and age, there are so many issues that we have to deal with personally and socially.

From race to gender to politics to religion to environment to poverty; we’re living in a society where it’s easier to close yourself off to people that are different from you.

As a new art / culinary project space in NYC, THE GALLERY always strives for the importance of the creative community and embracing beliefs and ideas from all walks of life. These 4 artists embody that idea to aim for togetherness and inclusivity.

We believe they give us some inspiration to make the new year, as well as make our world brighter.

The owner of THE GALLERY, Hiroki Odo and his team are going back to their roots with classic Japanese cuisine. Each artist, each ingredient, each dish has their own story and meaning. Its synergy with the art that we are displaying has a strong message of togetherness and importance. Blending people from all walks of life is truly inspiring to be a part of. We hope you can enjoy that message and "embrace” with us.

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Get Warm , Lullaby, Talisman, Orbit, by Kimia Kline

Oil and oil on wood, 6” – 17” high (2018)

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Kline fuses painting with sculpture to investigate human intimacy and totemic histories. Made from discarded and salvaged wood gathered in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and upstate NY, Kline’s works investigate the ritual of starting over by retrieving objects that have pre-existing histories and building a relationship with them. Raised in an immigrant and refugee family, Kline has an intimate knowledge of feeling discarded and forming fresh beginnings. Newly realized works nod to both recent and distant pasts, transforming Kline’s pieces into a collaboration with time itself.

Rather than forcing the works into what the sculptor wants, the moments shared with each piece ignite a transformation. Once the wood has become familiar, Kline emphasizes texture with oil paint, wax, and pastels. Kline embraces rawness rather than hiding imperfection. Her sophisticated mark making appears both exploratory and refined, turning her scraps of wood into whimsical, figurative, and architectural stories. An overwhelming presence of family emerges and fades as you walk amidst the works, leaving space for individual interpretation. Ultimately, Kline’s work arrives at an intuitive place of stability, devotion, and balance. Both archival and newly born, the works build and transmit spiritual energy, and then pass it back and forth between object and viewer.

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Photographed by Carmen Chan

Kimia Ferdowsi Kline earned an M.F.A. at the San Francisco Art Institute and holds a B.F.A. in painting from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was awarded a full-tuition Danforth Scholarship. She has mounted solo exhibitions at Turn Gallery (New York), Marrow Gallery (San Francisco), The Elaine L. Jacobs Gallery at Wayne State University (Detroit) and 68 Projects (Berlin). Select group shows include Ceysson & Bénétière, The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, CANADA Gallery, PACE University, and The Drawing Center. In 2015 she was awarded a grant and residency through the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2018 she was honored to be nominated for a Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Most recently, she is thrilled to be working on a monograph with Radius Books, set to release in 2022.Guest lectures and teaching include Yale University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, SUNY Purchase, Lipscomb University, The Fashion Institute of Technology, Brooklyn College, Wayne State University, and Chautauqua Institute.

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Reese is an observational artist inspired by formalism. Lines, shapes, colors, and textures are as central to her work as is the process of creating them. A complex layering of these abstract elements allows her work to speak to the representational. Her most recent series of paintings is inspired by nature. She methodically builds up sheer layers of monochromatic forms; each new layer informed by all previous layers. This process gives the painting a sculptural element as well as a sense of depth. Observations are simplified– –distilling the essence of these natural forms reflects nature’s tendency to remove the extraneous.

They Call it

“Dead White Man’s Clothes”

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Reese (b. 1991) holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a Bachelor of Science from Skidmore College. She has completed Artist-in-Residencies at Vermont Studio Center in 2017 and Elsewhere Studios in 2013. She was on a panel for the “The Entrepreneurial Artist Workshop” at the Tang Museum and received the Award of Excellence from the 58th Long Island Artist Exhibition at the Art League of Long Island.

Reese has exhibited widely throughout the United States and has been featured in several publications including New American Paintings Northeast Issue 134, New American Painting Featured Artists, Inside Artists, Studio Visit Magazine, and A Women’s Thing.

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“Net is a soft-sculpture architectural installation environment. In creating this piece, she

was interested in exploring how the power of architecture and the spaces we inhabit impact us and teach us what is possible. She wanted to create a work that intervenes into the viewers space, offering them an empathetic, feminist, and ecologically-conscious alternative experience. Net’s immersive atmosphere is meant to feel like a sacred passageway, encouraging viewers who interact with it to open their imaginations to new possibilities. She created this work using primarily recycled and upcycled materials, which She hand knotted and wrapped with fabrics and yarns. She also used various reflective metallic materials to bounce light reflections around the installation space. Many of the fabrics she used in this piece are remnants from previous sculptural projects, which gives Net an archival quality and a sense of history. Most of the metallic fabrics come from a reuse center in Brooklyn which specializes in recycling textiles from the New York fashion and commercial design industries”.

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Kathy Sirico (b. Philadelphia, 1990) is a Brooklyn-based artist working abstractly at the intersection of painting, sculpture, textiles, and installation. Sirico received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2017 and her Bachelor of Science from Skidmore College in 2012. She has completed Artist Residencies at MassMoCA Assets for Artists in 2020, Vermont Studio Center in 2018, Lucid Art Foundation in 2017, and Recology, San Francisco in 2016. Her work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally, notably in recent exhibits, SPRING/BREAK Art Show in New York (2021), Summertime ‘21 at Galleri Christoffer Egelund in Copenhagen, Denmark (2020), and Interior/Exterior at the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco (2019).

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FOOD

“At the beginning of 2021, with the pandemic continuing and giving everyone a difficult time, I still wanted to have a bright feeling for the New Year. I started a diary-like artwork series that describes my everyday feelings, using images of the powerful Japanese icon -Mount Fuji. For each one I made, I used elements of what I saw, heard, ate, and felt that day. Those days were expressed with one unique hoop per day. These diary-like Fuji-san artworks continued intermittently throughout the year culminating with this showing at THE GALLERY”.

TOMOKO SUGIMOTO Ate / Appetizer

Tomoko Sugimoto creates large- and small-scaled paintings with acrylic paint, thread and sewing machine to render whimsical figures suspended in abstract yet materially tactile space and express emotions, sensations and vision with abstract thread movements. Children playing, abstracted landscapes and everyday objects are recurring subject matter in Sugimoto’s living oeuvre. She defines her style with sharp contour and line juxtaposed with delicate pools of soft tints. Her current artwork embraces an exploration of the post-war Japanese identity and correlates to other postmodern studies of figure. Born in Tokyo, Japan, Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and has shown at numerous galleries and art fairs in Japan and overseas. She obtained a BFA in Graphic Design from Musashino Art University/Tokyo, and a BFA in Illustration at the School of Visual Arts/NYC. 9 9

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My days with Fuji San by Tomoko Sugimoto C0tton thread on canvas 3”circle (2021)

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Temaki Hand Roll Bento Box

$59

Temaki Obanzai – add on: Uni +$15, Ikura +$15 bluefin tuna, radish and crab shira-ae, foie gras and pork pate, horse mackrel, simmered kuruma prawns, smoked salmon Grilled Black cod or A5 Miyazaki Wagyu beef Steak +$25 saikyo miso, brussel sprout Tilefish Clear Soup bonito dashi Sushi Rice

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Gâteau Dark Chocolate or Comte Cheesecake

* Due to market availability, some items are subject to change or substitution. * Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of food borne illness, especially if you have certain medical conditions.

LUNCH 12

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Chirashi Sushi Box

$49

Assortment of Sashimi Black Cod or A5 Miyazaki Wagyu beef +$25 Sushi Rice

A La Carte

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Sushi Rolls – 5 pieces Winter Salad with Crisp Apple $14

Bluefin Tuna $14

Fried Chicken Wings $14

Salmon $14

Crispy Chicken Nanban $15 egg tartar sauce

Shrimp Tempura $15

sake vinaigrette

sweet soy glaze, nagoya style

Assorted Vegetables Tempura $16 Grilled Black Cod $24

saikyo miso, brussel sprout Brisket $22 house smoked U.S Wagyu beef

A5 Wagyu Dashi Shabu Shabu $52 wagyu sirloin, seasonal vegetable

chive, onion, gari, cucumber, wasabi cream cheese, cucumber, shiso, fried shallot, yuzu pepper avocado, cucmber, shiso, chive, sansho soy sauce

Wagyu Beef $28

avocado, cucmber, chive, wasabi, sliced truffle

Vegetable $16

shiitake mushroom, braised squash, egg omelette, shiso leaf

Add Sauce $2

spicy mayo, wasabi mayo, eel sauce

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Temaki Hand Roll Bento Box

$59

- Cauliflower Potage - Temaki Obanzai – add on: Uni +$15, Ikura +$15 bluefin tuna, radish and crab shira-ae, foie gras and pork pate, horse mackrel, simmered kuruma prawns, smoked salmon Grilled Black cod or A5 Miyazaki Wagyu beef Steak +$25 saikyo miso, brussel sprout Tilefish Clear Soup bonito dashi

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Sushi Rice - Gâteau Dark Chocolate or Comte Cheesecake

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A La Carte Winter Salad with Crisp Apple $14

Assorted Vegetables Tempura $20

sake vinaigrette

Grilled Black Cod $26

Cauliflower Potage $16

saikyo miso, brussel sprout

topped with Uni

Brisket $24

Lobster Spring Roll – 2pc $22

house smoked U.S Wagyu beef

shiso aroma

A5 Wagyu Dashi Shabu Shabu $52 wagyu sirloin, seasonal vegetable

Fried Chicken Wings $16

sweet soy glaze, nagoya style Crispy Chicken Nanban $17 egg tartar sauce

z Nigiri Sushi

Sushi Rolls – 5 pieces

Bluefin Tuna Obsession - 5 pieces $32

Bluefin Tuna $18

Savor My Salmon - 5 pieces $28

Salmon $16

Omakase - 8 pieces $48

Wagyu Beef $32

tuna, chu-toro, toro, o-toro, seared toro, tartar salmon, seared salmon, salmon belly, ikura, tartar

chive, onion, gari, cucumber, wasabi cream cheese, cucumber, shiso, fried shallot, yuzu pepper avocado, cucmber, chive, wasabi, sliced truffle

Omakase - 12 pieces $85

Vegetable $20

shiitake mushroom, braised squash, egg omelette, shiso leaf

Add Sauce $2

spicy mayo, wasabi mayo, eel sauce

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Icy Pond by Mel Reese Acrylic on canvas, 36” x 24” x 1.5” (2021) 1616

DRINKS Urakasumi, Jyunmai Sake - Miyagi 300ml

$28

Urakasumi, Jyunmai Sake - Miyagi 720ml

$300

refreshing taste that harmonizes the umami and sourness of rice

fruity, gorgeous aroma, condensed umami and sharpness limited brewed finest sake in Ura kasumi

The Premium Malt’s - Suntory beer

Yuzu breeze

$10

$10

fresh yuzu, honey, soda, mint

Hoji delight

$10

hoji infused ginger beer, fresh lime

San Pellegrino

$7

San Pellegrino Aranciata

$5

San Pellegrino Ginger beer Hoji Roasted Green Tea

$5 $6

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Net by Kathy Sirico crylic and mixed media collage on canvas with z mirrors, Dimensions Variable, (2021)

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Net by Kathy Sirico

Acrylic and mixed media collage on canvas with mirrors, Dimensions Variable, (2021)

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Special Thanks to Hamid Amini / Gavin Brown / Travis Fairclough / Maris Hanson / Masako Kaufman / Etsuko Kobayashi / Kanako Maeda / Sara Malas / Aik Wye Ng / Kate Pressman / Liz Ricketts / Danielle Cardoso Shae fer / Junko

Special Thanks to

Shimada / Hilary Taymour / Tomas Vu / Brooklyn Bridge Cleaners / Columbia University Le Roy Neiman Center for Print Studies / Gladstone Kan Asakura / Zahra Sherzad Gallery / Next Cleaners / The OR foundation

The The Gallery Gallery Crew Crew Manabu Asanuma / Ricard Diaz / Victor Diaz / Shuji Furukawa / Karma Gurung / Henry Kim / Fabian Morales / Federico Mosso Hiroki Odo / Brian Saito / Victor Sandoval / Jordan Smith / Mari Yoh

Event Organized Exhibition curatedbybyAkiko AkikoIchikawa Ichikawa

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