As the 20th exhibition in the APS series "a piece of work," we are pleased to present #20 ISHIZUKA Masako: Darkness and Light, which is being held from September 8th to 25th, 2010. This exhibition is held in conjunction with Gallery Camellia on the same floor as APS.

Ishizuka graduated from the Women’s College of Fine Arts (presently, the Joshibi University of Art and Design) in 1989. Ever since she began her artistic activity in 1990, she has actively exhibited her works in art museums and galleries, including INAX Gallery (1993), Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan (1994, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum), Gallery Nikko (1998), Centripetal Force/Centrifugal Force: Urawa and Contemporary Art (2001, Urawa Art Museum) and TAMAVIVANT (1993 and 2008, Tama Art University, Soko Gallery, and others).

Throughout the 1990s, Ishizuka created monochromatic abstract works that conveyed a strong centripetal spiral force, with which she gained great recognition. But in 2000, she completely transformed her production method and began to depict each and every line in trees and flowers.

The triptych painting she exhibited at APS in 2008 allowed one to overlook her “garden” from the gallery space, and invited the viewer through the garden into the world beyond.

In this exhibition, held a decade after she first transformed her method of expression, she has harmonized the “time-space that extended to the world beyond” in her 2008 work with “what comes from the world beyond,” so as to manifest a profound world in which the passage of time and space evolves in a spiraling and circulating motion.

Please come and enjoy Ishizuka’s Darkness and Light, a world that unfolds in the two different venue types that are APS and Gallery Camellia. (Curated by Taeko Nanpei)