Online Exhibition
October 1 –October 31 , 2020
SOLO Exhibition
Yu Kanuma
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SEASON 4/100
Acrylic, Japanese paper, cotton canvas on panel,10.75 × 10.75 Inch , 2020
$200(no frame)

SEASON 3/100
Acrylic, Japanese paper, silverpoint, cotton canvas on panel,10.75 × 10.75 Inch , 2020
$200(no frame)

RE: SEASON 3/100
Acrylic, Japanese paper, silverpoint, cotton canvas on panel,8.94 × 8.94 Inch , 2020
$150(no frame)

SEASON 2/100
Acrylic, Japanese paper, silverpoint, cotton canvas on panel,10.75 × 10.75 Inch , 2020
$200(no frame)

SEASON 1/100
Acrylic, Japanese paper, silverpoint, cotton canvas on panel,10.75 × 10.75 Inch , 2020
$200(no frame)

Yu Kanuma
Yu Kanuma is a self taught artist and a medical doctor who lives in Tokyo.
He continues painting everyday as if he were traveling, taking a walk, or writing a letter to old friends. What he sees, feels, and all the things that he’s experienced in everyday life are connected to his art. He aims to draw cells of living things and shapes of shapeless things, such as pieces of a sound and drops of light.
During his medical student days in 1999, he had done live paintings, designed flyers for events, and began to visit contemporary art galleries and was inspired by great artists. In 2002, he and his friends formed an art group, Ehonkaigi, and did some exhibitions and art events. Through these experiences he found his love for painting. By the time he graduated from medical school in 2003, he decided to continue what he really wanted to do.
Since 2013 he is working as a hospital doctor and has designed a hospital logo for his workplace and posters for several conferences.
He restarted his art activities in full scale since this past April and joined JACT in June 2020.
It’s abstract but not unfriendly, which is a perfect description of Mr. Kanuma’s profile, in which he paints as if he were writing remembering an old friends. Each shape and color is filled with warmth, joy of life and aches.
I feel as if I have suddenly found a glimpse of someone’s life.
I’m looking forward to seeing your new works
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