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Yoshitomo Nara installation view, via Marianne Boesky Gallery.
For Yoshitomo Nara’s fourth solo show at Marianne Boesky Gallery, the Japanese pop artist pairs new paintings and drawings with two large-scale sculptures. Created with his collaborative group YNG – formally known as “Yoshitomo Nara + graf – the two stylized pine tree abodes are made of reclaimed wood and recall the feeling of a woodman’s cottage or some surreal abode. The interiors are filled with sketches and doodles created in the artist’s hand, along with stuffed animals that match the playful, fairy-tale feeling of Nara’s work.
Marianne Boesky
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Yoshitomo Nara
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February 28 – March 28, 2009
RELATED LINKS
Exhibition Page [Marianne Boesky]
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Artist Now In Rogue Gallery [New York Post]
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Nara Arrested for Graffiti Before Boesky Opening [Art in America]
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Openings: Yoshitomo Nara in NYC [Arrested Motion]
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NYC///FIRST LOOK///YOSHITOMO NARA ROCKS MARIANNE BOESKY GALLERY [Supertouch]
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On View: Yoshitomo Nara at Marianne Boesky [The Art Collectors]
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Yoshitomo Nara at Marianne Boesky [NYArtBeat]
Artist Yoshitomo Nara – via New York Post.
Yoshitomo Nara may be more well-known for his doe-eyed cartoon girls than for delinquent behavior, but he’s received a storm of publicity in New York this week for his arrest on charges of “resisting arrest, making graffiti, criminal mischief, possession of graffiti tools and damaging property” for drawing a smiley face on the wall of the Union Square L stop. (Perhaps he’s been hanging around Nate Lowman?) According to Art in America, the artist subsisted on peanut butter sandwiches and milk for two days in the city jail, “which he optimistically described as ‘a nice experience in my life,’ saying it was ‘like in the movies,’ a small space filled with all manner of people he would not otherwise meet.”
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Street graffiti by Yoshitomo Nara, courtesy of The Art Collectors.
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Yoshitomo Nara installation view, via Marianne Boesky Gallery.
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Yoshitomo Nara, “Agent Orange in the Milk Lake” (2009) at Marianne Boesky, via Arrested Motion.
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Installation view of Yoshitomo Nara’s “Not Everything But/Green House” (2009) at Marianne Boesky, via Arrested Motion.
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Yoshitomo Nara installation view, via Marianne Boesky Gallery.
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Yoshitomo Nara “Creep” (2009) at Marianne Boesky, courtesy of the gallery.
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Yoshitomo Nara show at Marianne Boesky, via Arrested Motion.
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“Not Everything But / Orange House” (2009) by Yoshitomo Nara at Marianne Boesky, via Arrested Motion.
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Interior of “Not Everything But / Orange House” (2009) by Yoshitomo Nara at Marianne Boesky, via Arrested Motion.
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Interior of “Not Everything But / Orange House” (2009) by Yoshitomo Nara at Marianne Boesky, via Arrested Motion.
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Yoshitomo Nara Sketches
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Gallerist and art dealer Marianne Boesky’s own home, above the gallery space, featuring work by Yoshitomo Nara. Via T: New York Times.