Hollywood, Los Angeles
Group Exhibition
Tokonoma Workshop
Nonaka-HillSaori (Madokoro) Akutagawa, Adam Alessi, Rando Aso, Peter Doig, Koichi Enomoto, Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Siobhan Furnary, Sawako Goda, Satoru Hoshino, Tatsuo Ikeda, Ulala Imai, Imaemon Imaizumi XIII, Kentaro Kawabata, Shio Kusaka, Calvin Marcus, Thomas McDonell, Nicolas G. Miller, Jiro Nagase, Nakahara Nantenbō, Keyikō Nishimura III, Kaz Oshiro, Silke Otto Knapp, Carol Rama, Kiyomizu Kyubey | Rokubey VII, Kiyomizu Rokubey VIII, Sterling Ruby, Tatsuzo Shimaoka, Kenzi Shiokava, Takuro Tamayama, Sofu Teshigahara, Masaomi Yasunaga Nonaka-Hill Los Angeles present our Fall group exhibition, Tokonoma Workshop. Tokonoma Workshop reinterprets the traditional Japanese, raised, shallow alcove space used to display art objects such as hanging scrolls (掛け軸 kakejiku), ikebana flower arrangements, incense burners, or fine art ceramics. The exhibition aims to explore the peculiar phenomenon of this architectural trope which incorporates a seasonal curatorial practice into “good homes” as part of Japanese family life. Tokonoma Workshop is a chance to show off unexpected pairings by artists from our program with works by artists based in Los Angeles and beyond. In the gallery, 2D work and 3D works come together with seasonal, natural elements and ikebana arrangements made by Kyoko Oshiro. Not all domestic tokonomas are havens of neat arrangements, we’ve seen chaotic tokonoma in Japanese homes. You could interpret those tokonoma as our insane junk drawers - a place that ends up with pile ups of works, old magazines, vintage TVs not working or dead plants. There are a variety of tonokoma spaces at Nonaka-Hill on exhibit, as the weeks pass, the gallery team updates and shift elements, subtracting and adding works. Initially elegant arrangements may naturally arrive at disarray - just like at any “good home.”