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Nonaka-Hill Nonaka-Hill is an international contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles, active in primary and secondary markets, by Rodney and Taka Nonaka-Hill.

09/10/2026

A while ago, Miyawaki spoke with me of the aranumono— literally, that which is not there, that which one can conceive of without perceiving. “I believe that I have always tried to see the aranumono,” Miyawaki said. “I have used different means to suggest it—paintings, reliefs, sculpture—
but as long as the most important thing for most people remains the creation of form, it will be impossible to really grasp it. That is why it would be better to call what I do now an ‘intermediary’ rather than sculpture. When the eye that observes the intermediary blends with its refractory,
reflective, translucent surface, suddenly something appears, and it is this something that I seek.”
— Alain Jouffroy for ArtForum, 1984

Hard Line Women opens at Nonaka-Hill Los Angeles on Wednesday, September 16th from 6-8pm. Join us!

09/09/2026

The most beautiful is to have nothing on the wall, the second most beautiful is to have a line on it, and then the third is to break the wall.
—Kazuko Miyamoto

Hard Line Women opens at Nonaka-Hill Los Angeles on Wednesday, September 16th from 6-8pm. Join us!

09/08/2026

The rules are in my head.
—Rei Kawakubo, 2013

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09/07/2026

During the process of making them, I gradually remove what I feel to be “noise.” The work becomes half its original size, then one-third, then one-quarter. I also repaint the colors many times, which naturally creates a thick surface. On softer materials such as acrylic panels, mirrors, and paper, traces of my hands inevitably remain.

— Akiko Horio, 2021

“Hard Line Women” opens at Nonaka-Hill Los Angeles on Wednesday, September 16th from 6-8pm. Join us!

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Rando A*o: EarthscapeSeptember 12 - October 24, 2026Opening: Saturday, September 12, 3- 6 p.mVenue: Nonaka-Hill KyotoNon...
09/03/2026

Rando A*o: Earthscape
September 12 - October 24, 2026

Opening: Saturday, September 12, 3- 6 p.m
Venue: Nonaka-Hill Kyoto

Nonaka-Hill京都では、土と火の原初的な関係を起点に、野焼きや黒陶などの焼成方法を通して、空間と造形の関係を探る阿曽藍人（1983年）の新作展「Earthscape」を開催いたします。本展では、多面体の無指向性スピーカーを手がける日本のスピーカーブランドlistudeとの初の試みにより、阿曽が作品を通して考えてきた「空間」を音へと拡張し、作品と音が響き合う空間そのものをつくり出します。
 
2026年にはパラミタミュージアム（三重）で開催された「第20回パラミタ陶芸大賞展」、現在は台湾・新北市立鶯歌陶瓷博物館で開催中の「2026 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale」に参加するなど、国内外で精力的に発表を続けています。
 
Nonaka-Hill Kyoto is pleased to present “Earthscape”, an exhibition of new work by Rando A*o (b. 1983). Beginning with the elemental relationship between earth and fire, A*o explores the relationship between form and space through firing techniques including field firing and smudge firing. For this exhibition, A*o’s first collaboration with Japanese speaker brand listude uses their polyhedral omnidirectional speakers to extend his exploration of space through sound throughout the gallery.
 
In 2026, A*o participated in the 20th Paramita Ceramic Art Grand Prize Exhibition at the Paramita Museum in Mie, and is currently participating in the 2026 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale at the New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan.

09/03/2026

Repost from Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Explore the first-ever monograph dedicated to Kenzi Shiokava’s work with Nolan Jimbo (Nolan Jimbo), curator of “Kenzi Shiokava” at the MCA. This beautiful hardcover spans decades of art and features new photography alongside archival glimpses into Shiokava’s practice and studio. The catalogue is available online, or you can swing by the MCA Store after your visit → go.mcachicago.org/shiokava-book

Kenzi Shiokava (b. 1938, Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, Brazil; d. 2021, Los Angeles, CA) worked for 50 years with the artistec recovery and revitalization of discarded materials. In his hands, objects scavenged from secondhand stores and the street were granted second lives as totems and assemblages. Comparing his process to archeology, Shiokava carved and staged materials to unearth their “inner movement,” a sense of their past lives and spiritual presence.

GROUP EXHIBITION“HARD LINE WOMEN”September 16 – November 7, 2026Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 16th, 6-8 pmVenu...
09/03/2026

GROUP EXHIBITION

“HARD LINE WOMEN”

September 16 – November 7, 2026

Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 16th, 6-8 pm
Venue: Nonaka-Hill Los Angeles

Nonaka-Hill Los Angeles presents “Hard Line Women”, an exhibition of Japanese women artists working during the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and today. Producing works across painting, performance, sculpture, installation and photography, Sumie Aoki (1924 – 2025); Akiko Horio (1937-); Rei Kawakubo (1942 - ); Kazuko Miyamoto (1942 - ); Aiko Miyawaki (1929-2014); Rakuko Naito (1935 - ); Etsuko Nakatsuji (1937- ); Tomie Ohtake (1913-2015); Kay Sekimachi (1926 -); Atsuko Tanaka (1932-2005); Eiko Yamazawa (1899-1995); and Shizuko Yoshikawa (1934-2019) each have practiced singular versions of hard-edged abstraction.

“Hard Line Women” identifies a powerful language of expression, concurrent with pivotal periods in the global women’s movement. Either for their lifetime, or for a brief period, these artists chose to sculpt, paint and photograph hard edges—against masculine ideals and grandiosity — countering storm and stress with rationalism and geometry. That several of them worked as graphic designers (Yamazawa, Miyawaki, Nakatsuji, Yoshikawa) alongside or as supplements to their art careers, suggests, at least, an abiding interest in coolness and formal order, a striving towards a materialist and non-psychological reality that lives beyond the artist and artwork. They have left behind, and in some cases continue to leave, singular bodies of work defying formal and gender-based expectations. while also expanding beyond the limitations of hard edge abstraction. The breadth and depth of these women’s work reveals how they perform beyond it’s strict parameters and will serve to illuminate threads in 20th century modernism while continuing the project of exhibiting the pioneering contributions of female Japanese artists.

Image:
Atsuko Tanaka
2001-F, 2001

Punching Block《Punching Block》は、京都でデザインスタジオと古道具店を営む「ものや」と、長崎県の精密板金加工メーカーEETALとの協働から生まれたコレクションです。ものやが古道具を扱うなかで惹かれてきたのは、物の...
08/28/2026

Punching Block

《Punching Block》は、京都でデザインスタジオと古道具店を営む「ものや」と、長崎県の精密板金加工メーカーEETALとの協働から生まれたコレクションです。

ものやが古道具を扱うなかで惹かれてきたのは、物の価値や意味が固定されず、置かれる環境や見る人によって、新たな関係性を獲得していくあり方です。本作では、その感覚を工業素材と精密な加工技術によって具体化しています。

パンチングメタルを箱状に組み、その内部を一本のL字型パイプが貫く構造。外形はひとつの量塊として立ち上がりながら、内側は完全には閉ざされず、距離や角度、光によって断片的に現れます。見る人の動きに伴って生じるモアレの揺らぎは、物体そのものが動いているかのような視覚的感覚をつくり出します。

用途は限定されず、使い方は所有者に委ねられています。置かれ、見られ、使われるたびに、物と空間、人との関係が更新されていくコレクションです。

受注生産｜納期：約1.5か月
現在、Nonaka-Hill Kyotoにて展示中
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Punching Block

Punching Block is a collection created through a collaboration between monoya, a Kyoto-based design studio and antique shop, and EETAL, a precision sheet-metal manufacturer based in Nagasaki Prefecture.

Through its work with old objects, monoya has been drawn to the way an object’s value and meaning remain unfixed, changing according to where it is placed and who encounters it. This idea is translated here through industrial materials and precise fabrication.

Each piece consists of a box-like perforated-metal form penetrated by a single L-shaped pipe. While the exterior appears solid, its internal structure emerges in fragments depending on distance, angle, and light. As the viewer moves, shifting moiré patterns create the impression that the object itself is in motion.

No single function is prescribed; how each piece is used is left to its owner. Its relationship with space and the viewer is renewed each time it is placed, seen, or used.

Made to order | Lead time: approximately six weeks
Currently on view at Nonaka-Hill Kyoto
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Yuka ShiobaraBorn in 1985 in Ibaraki, Japan. Lives and works in Chiba.Yuka Shiobara explores vision, perception, memory,...
08/26/2026

Yuka Shiobara
Born in 1985 in Ibaraki, Japan. Lives and works in Chiba.

Yuka Shiobara explores vision, perception, memory, and consciousness—how we understand what we cannot always see. Her recent work also draws from physics, quantum mechanics, and astronomy.

In the works shown here, “Traumatic Memory: Drawing for Locking” (2025) and “Traumatic Memory: Drawing for Unlocking” (2025), Shiobara imagines memory as a fictional device. At its center is a cabinet that stores memories. The blue pattern covering its surface represents neurons.

In “Drawing for Locking,” the cabinet is closed, keeping traumatic memories inside. In “Drawing for Unlocking,” it opens and the drawers extend outward, allowing those memories to be accessed and retrieved.

“Drawing of a Neuron” (2025), also shown here, is an enlarged view of a single neuron—the same form that appears across the cabinet's surface. The perspective moves from an imagined device for storing memory to the cellular structure involved in memory itself.

Shiobara gives physical form to processes we cannot see: remembering and forgetting, locking something away and retrieving it again.

Works by Yuka Shiobara are currently on view at Nonaka-Hill Kyoto.
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塩原有佳
1985年、茨城県生まれ。現在、千葉県を拠点に制作しています。

塩原有佳は、視覚や認知、記憶、意識を手がかりに、私たちが目に見えないものをどのように認識しているのかを探っています。近年は物理学、量子力学、天文学などにも関心を広げています。

ここに掲載している《トラウマ記憶：施錠の為のドローイング》（2025）と《トラウマ記憶：解く錠の為のドローイング》（2025）では、記憶の仕組みが架空の装置として描かれています。中心にある棚は記憶が収められる場所で、表面を覆う青いパターンはニューロン（神経細胞）を表しています。

《施錠》ではトラウマの記憶が棚の内部に閉じ込められ、《解く錠》では鍵が開き、引き出しからその記憶を再び取り出すことができます。

ここに掲載している《ニューロンのドローイング》（2025）は、棚の表面に描かれているニューロンそのものを大きく拡大した作品です。記憶を収める架空の装置から、その記憶に関わる脳内の細胞へと視点が移ります。

広瀬陽（1990年、東京生まれ）は、七宝焼の技法を用いながら、その伝統的な装飾性とは異なる表現を探求しています。七宝焼では通常、複数の色の釉薬を使って絵や文様を描きます。広瀬の《銅白釉七宝》は色彩を白釉に絞り、銅、釉薬、火の反応そのものを表...
08/25/2026

広瀬陽（1990年、東京生まれ）は、七宝焼の技法を用いながら、その伝統的な装飾性とは異なる表現を探求しています。

七宝焼では通常、複数の色の釉薬を使って絵や文様を描きます。広瀬の《銅白釉七宝》は色彩を白釉に絞り、銅、釉薬、火の反応そのものを表面に留めています。

作品には、銅板を繰り返し叩いて形づくるものと、3Dデータをもとに設計するものがあります。いずれも形はシャープで、輪郭は明確です。その一方で、銅の赤褐色が縁を走り、その周囲の白釉には青が滲む。研ぎ澄まされた形の際で色彩の境界が揺らぎ、硬質な銅の器に、光を含んだような幽玄な奥行きを与えています。

器として使うことのできる作品ですが、その佇まいは日用品とは異なります。広瀬は七宝の装飾を削ぎ落とし、素材と焼成が生む現象によって、器を一つのオブジェへと変えています。

現在、Nonaka-Hill Kyotoにて展示中です。作品についてのお問い合わせはDMにてご連絡ください。

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You Hirose (b. 1990, Tokyo) works with cloisonné enamel while pursuing an approach distinct from the medium’s traditional ornamentation.

Cloisonné traditionally uses several colors of enamel to create images and patterns. In his “Copper and White-Glaze Cloisonné”works, Hirose limits the palette to white, allowing the interaction of copper, enamel, and fire to remain visible across the surface.

Some works are shaped by repeatedly hammering sheets of copper, while others are designed using 3D data. In each, the form is sharp and clearly defined. Reddish-brown copper traces the edges, while blue seeps into the surrounding white enamel. At the precise limits of the form, the boundaries of color begin to shift, giving the hard copper vessel a luminous and mysterious depth.

The works can be used as vessels, yet their presence sets them apart from ordinary functional objects. By stripping cloisonné of ornament, Hirose transforms the vessel through the material effects produced in firing.

Now on view at Nonaka-Hill Kyoto. Please DM us for inquiries.

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