Yoshio Ikezaki Retrospective 1980’s to 2025

Half Century of My Shades and Ink

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July 26 to Sep 4, 2025

Opening Reception July 26, 3-6pm

Artist talk 4:30pm

 

 

Kylin Gallery is thrilled to announce "Half Century," a retrospective show celebrating Yoshio Ikezaki's impressive artworks and activities spanning fifty years. Kylin Gallery and the artist have carefully selected the representative works from each decade and his creative milestones for this exhibition by himself.

 

The show will feature a diverse collection, including his dot and abstract Sumi ink paintings from the '80s, paper collages and book-shaped paper sculptures from the ‘90s. The show also includes early stage of his Sumi ink landscape, collages and handmade mulberry paper sculptures “The Earth Breathes” series which deeply relate his study of Heart of Sutra at that time in 2000’s. In 2010’s, He created Sumi ink and watercolor landscape titled “Timeless Auras” series which major museums and clients have been collecting since.

 

 

In his 2020’s to current, Yoshio has profoundly embodied his artistic vision, skill, and experiences into his Sumi ink painting resonating with Japanese aesthetics and Zen philosophy. This most recent after 2024, he has dig down to lead the meaning of “Form is Emptiness and Emptiness is Form” for his artwork. As a result, He started to create “Black in Black” painting series to reveal the essence between them with a sense of “Impermanence” (Mujo) and “Assumption” (Mitate).

 

Yoshio Ikezaki was born in Japan in 1953 and active in both Los Angeles US and Japan since 1975. He is an internationally renowned visual artist and educator. He is a master Sumi ink painter and a master papermaker of Japanese tradition. His paintings and sculptures are grounded in Japanese aesthetic principle and philosophies, crafts materials, interpreted in a contemporary context.