Kaoru Arima / Josh Brand

SOPHIE TAPPEINER hosting

MISAKO & ROSEN (Tokyo), presenting
Kaoru Arima / Josh Brand
(Empty Set)

The act of looking into the light is like a photograph.
Look into the light and deliver the light.
The picture in front of me reflects you.
-Kaoru Arima

Kaoru Arima and Josh Brand both make work of a highly personal nature; Brand is not promiscuous in his choice of media – he is decidedly a photographer – Arima works in a variety of media; on and off over the years and in different locales he has run in Japan an exhibition and community space, the Art Drug Center.

Both artists eschew existing ideology in favor of developing their own vocabulary – internal, synthetic, idiosyncratic yet, above all, generous. There is a decidedly unfashionable quality to the literally experimental work of each artist - a genuine vitality generally absent from the present moment.

Kaoru Arima (born 1969, Aichi, Japan) presently lives and works in Miyagi, Japan. In addition to a number of solo exhibitions with MISAKO & ROSEN, Arima has exhibited at Edouard Montassut, Paris, CFA, Milan, Queer Thoughts, New York, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh.

Josh Brand (born 1980, Elkhorn, USA) presently lives in New York. Brand has presented three solo exhibitions with MISAKO & ROSEN; additionally, Brand has exhibited with Herald St., London, White Columns, New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.