Galerie Forsblom

Exhibitor's Artists:

• Donald Baechler
• HC Berg
  Biography : HC Berg is a young Finnish artist who has been steadily growing in international renown over the last ten years. With observation and perception as his subject matter, Berg employs a variety of media from metals to glass to acrylics to create works that possess unlimited optical dexterity. His art challenges customary ways of seeing and viewing, with the interaction of material and light offering surprises and insights. HC Berg has studied in University of Art and Design and Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. Berg was the recipient of Finland’s Young Artist of the Year award in 2007, and his works have been exhibited in galleries, museums, and art fairs worldwide. Artist's Documents: Visual vortex – orange Quasi crystal pattern  
  
• Jiagang Chen
• Ron Gorchov
• Keith Haring
  Artist's Documents: S-Man  
  
  Also exhibited by: KM Fine Arts | Chicago - Los Angeles,
• Jacob Hashimoto
  Exhibition : SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
  
  2009 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
  2008 Hashimoto V, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy.
  2007 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
  Plumes and the Landscape Omnibus, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
  2006 Studio La Città, Verona, Italy.
  2005 Superabundant Atmosphere, Rice Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas.
  Skip Skitter Start Trip Vault Bounce – and other attempts at flight, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
  2004 Bloom, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California.
  Altadena, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington.
  2003 The Nature of Objects, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy.
  2002 Studio la Città, Verona, Italy.
  Silent Rhythm, Galleria Traghetto, Venice, Italy.
  Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, Texas.
  2001 Giant Yellow, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
  Big Mountain, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
  2000 Carte Blanche à Hélène de Franchis, Galerie Lucien Durand-Le Gaillard, Paris, France.
  Project Room, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
  Giant Yellow and Other Structures, Galerie Lucien Durand-Le Gaillard, Paris, France.
  1999 Armada, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois.
  Infinite Lightness, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy.
  Galleria La Nuova Pesa, Rome, Italy.
  1998 Infinite Expanse of Sky, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois.
  Project Room, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
  1997 Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
  1996 Sky Canopy Installation, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
  
  
  SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
  
  2009 Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, The Saatchi Gallery, London, England.
  In-Finitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy.
  A Tribute to Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
  2007 Winter Selections, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
  E Ricomincio da Tre, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy.
  2005 Italian Feel Detailed Description : Jacob Hashimoto simulates nature without purporting to replicate it. Based in New York and of Japanese decent, Hashimoto redefines Japanese screen painting with his assemblages of paper "kites" in undulating, interactive compositions. Although young, Hashimoto is already a seasoned and recognized artist, having had numerous shows with Studio La Citta in Verona and Rhona Hoffman Gallery of Chicago, and a recent sell-out show with Mary Boone Gallery in New York City. Hashimoto’s artwork embodies his longtime fascination with the intersections of painting and sculpture, abstraction and landscape. Each work is comprised of hundreds of small bamboo and paper kite-like elements. These kite elements are strung together in chains, and layers of these chains are stretched taught between short dowels that project from wall-mounted brackets, creating a densely layered and fragmented tapestry of image or pattern. The elements forming these tapestries are a solid color of paper, or a complex, collaged pattern of multicolored cut paper. While the individual components remain more or less abstract, overall, clusters of pattern, stripes, or waves of color are formed, giving the works a pictorial quality that suggests organic forms, vistas, scrolling video games, or even board games. Through this unique process Hashimoto's works convey an ephemeral wonder, entrancing the viewer with their continuously shifting illusion of light, space, motion, and sense of flight. Hashimoto’s working method is very open-ended, allowing him to sample art-historical references, icons of the every-day, and mismatched narratives within each composition. Artist's Documents: Whispers of a Doomed Planet  
  
• Veikko Hirvimäki
  Artist's Documents: Good Night  
  
• Jacqueline Humphries
• Chantal Joffe
• Kaarina Kaikkonen
  Artist's Documents: Sometimes life is beautiful  
  
• Ola Kolehmainen
  Artist's Documents: Laced 1  
  
• Jarmo Mäkilä
• Jason Martin
  Artist's Documents: Rugen  
  
  Also exhibited by: Jerome Zodo Contemporary ,
• Ryan McGinness
  
  Also exhibited by: Bridgette Mayer Gallery,
• Jussi Niva
• Tony Oursler
  Artist's Documents: Molt  
  

  

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• Marc Quinn
  
  Also exhibited by: Contessa Gallery,
• Julian Schnabel
• Donald Sultan
  
  Also exhibited by: Meyerovich Gallery,
• Manolo Valdés
  Artist's Documents: Jacqueline III  
  
• Bernar Venet
  Artist's Documents: One Indeterminate Line  
  
  Also exhibited by: Sponder Gallery, Meyerovich Gallery, de Sarthe Gallery,