S C R O L L W O R K S
KATSURA OKADA
The 473 Broadway Gallery continues its Fall 2003 season with an exhibit of new works by New York based artist Katsura Okada.
Scrollworks will present Okada�s rolled rice paper assemblages which burgeon in both theme and style from Okada�s longtime interest in natural and musical forms. The pieces invoke the undulations of arcs and rolling spirals often embedded inside each other, the whorls of shells, mimicked by the ocean waves which contain them, the curlings of clouds, or the ring lines of trees dating time outward in fibrous layers. As well, the scrolls conjure the storage of text and artwork from a previous era, the method of holding and transporting information before and after display. But Okada�s works don�t physically un-ravel, instead Okada cites the musical form of the canon as an analogous inspiration with its repeated cycles rising and falling in continuity. She says: "The following melody pursues the first melody, each melody has a certain story, a certain history." The break in the vocal or instrumental rounds of a canon Okada sees not as disjunction but as an important link in the ring of continuity. "At a certain time, the cycle should require cutting, this cutting is a gap, one mere pause under continuation, a gap generates a new cycle."
Katsura Okada�s Scrollworks will be on exhibit at
the 473 Broadway Gallery from October 16 - November 1, 2003
Opening reception: Thursday, October 16, 2003, 6-8pm