TRANSFORMATIVE  ENERGIES

Two-Dimensional Works by Yoshio Ikezaki, Miya Ando, and Joseph Akerman

Curated by Hollis Goodall

March 22 – May 18, 2025

Opening Reception: Saturday, 3/22 | 3:00 – 6:00 PM

Kylin Gallery | 8634 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211

 

Kylin Gallery is thrilled to announce its first curated exhibition of 2025. “Transformative Energies: Two-Dimensional Works by Yoshio Ikezaki, Miya Ando, and Joseph Akerman” features three artists and their respective approaches to depicting universal vital energy (Japanese: ki; Chinese: qi), with a Buddhist reverence for the transitory qualities of all things. These three artists sincerely appreciate one another’s works and share a fascination with ki energy and the ephemerality and transitoriness that it enforces in the universe. The opening reception will be held at the gallery on March 22, between 3-6pm. Light refreshment will be served during the reception.

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Yoshio Ikezaki, the central artist for Kylin Gallery, has, since his martial arts practice as a youth, been fascinated by the movement of ki energy in bodies, the sky and sea, and mountains, which will one day crumble to dust. His home near the coast of northern Kyushu, southernmost of Japan’s large islands, has allowed him views of the horizon, the intersection of sky, land, and sea. He has experimented for years with landscapes based on the horizon line, where the elements of water, air, and gases are in constant flux. Most recently, his focus has turned to the underlying ki energies that promote this flow between states of elemental being. Ikezaki uses bespoke sumi, colors he mixes, and specialized papers, some handmade, to build his portraits of energy flow.

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Miya Ando is of American and Japanese heritage and grew up within both cultures. She brings to her art a deep understanding of Buddhism and its attitude toward the evanescence of life. With its delicate shades of seasonal change reflected in the tea ceremony, Japanese tea culture weighs heavily in her art. Ando works with hand-made washi (Japanese paper) from the island of Shikoku, Japanese indigo, and pure Japanese silver in her works on paper. In this exhibition, Ando’s washi works evoke moon phases, stars, clouds, rain, and ocean waves. Descended from an elite line of swordsmiths, Ando took up metalwork early in her career and continues to print and patinate on alucore metal for her “Cloud” series, represented in this exhibition.

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In his photographs, Joseph Akerman captures light energy as it reflects upon a variety of fluid surfaces. He attempts to distill moments when the quality of light energy is most visible, frozen in reflections caught within the endlessly changing watery surfaces. Strongly motivated by the energy and ephemerality that he sees in the work of Ikezaki and Ando, Akerman’s abstract photography endeavors to pictorialize ki. Of late, Akerman has been experimenting with adding various precious metals to his photographs to enhance their emphasis on reflectiveness.

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