MIKA HORIBUCHI – WATERCOLORS
2022-02-21Bortolami Gallery is pleased to present Watercolors, Mika Horibuchi’s first New York solo exhibition. The paintings contain no actual watercolor media, but a combination of oil painting techniques used to recreate images from photos of her grandmother’s watercolor paintings.
As a nod to traditional photo mounting techniques, Horibuchi has applied and sanded many layers of gesso to create a subtle relief in the form of a rectangle with four triangular corners. This ultra-smooth painting surface is “framed” by the raw, stretched linen of her support, as if each image is suspended on the page of a family photo album.
Opposite – Watercolor of Pi-ko, 2021
Exhibition runs through to March 26th, 2022
Bortolami Gallery
55 Walker Street
NY 10013
New York
