Tetsuya Yamada | untie

“What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and, returning to the world of our daily experience, to seek therein the truth of beauty. No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that it has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry.” Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)
 
Using varied forms of media, Tetsuya Yamada taps the profound moments in the ordinary that resonate in clear chords of human experience in the featured fall exhibition, untie. Even as the work of Yamada circles mundane processes, it also connects them with each pass and maps simple, transient paths to imagination.
 
Born in Tokyo, Yamada now lives and works in Minneapolis. Yamada serves as a Professor in the of Art at the University of Minnesota and has been the recipient of several awards. In 2011, out of a pool of 1,875 artists from 71 countries, Yamada received the prestigious Grand Prize at the Gyeonggi International Ceramix Biennale in Korea. Most recently in 2014, he was awarded a McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship.  Yamada has had numerous exhibitions in venues such as the Yoshii Gallery in NYC, Rochester Art Center, and Francis Naumann Fine Art, NYC, among others.

Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, October 6th from 6 - 8 PM. RSVP on Facebook
 
The exhibition is free and open to the public.