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"Ko-Minka-ski Space" 30x51cm painting (42.5 x133cm scroll) nihonga paint on washi paper, fabric scroll 2024

Edit: SOLD

Our first kakejiku in over 3 years, this traditional nihonga (Japanese mineral pigment paint) artwork was inspired by the old joinery in our 140 year old farmhouse in the Japanese countryside, and our young cats who figured out they could ascend the columns like a tree trunk and have a whole new world to explore in the rafters over our heads. Like many of our cat paintings, almost all the cats are ours, or friends' cats. The cats are not, however, existing in one dimension, but we seem to be seeing multiple dimensions of cats and joinery in the same moment and thus it may seem to make sense to our perception and then lose sense and back again - they seem to have their own kind of logic.

Kozy painted this artwork using the very traditional medium of Japanese painting - crushing minerals into a fine powder herself and mixing them into warmed hide glue to make each color, repeatedly re-warming the mixture to keep it at the correct temperature necessary to paint it onto the handmade washi paper.

Once the painting was finished, we took it to a father and son scroll making team in the mountains of Minobu, Yamanashi, where we selected the elements of fabric they would use to build the scroll around the painting (one might assume a painting is attached to the front of a scroll, but in fact the fabric elements are cut and glued to fit around the painting instead).

We have sent this painting off to Outré Gallery in Melbourne, Australia for their 2024 Vanguard group exhibition, which is on view September 6 - 29, 2024.

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The sea of snowmen by kozyndan

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Uprisings by Kozyndan

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Death Cab for Cutie – “An Arrow in the Wall”

Death Cab for Cutie have shared the new song “An Arrow in the Wall” and a remix version by Chvrches. It’s also available on physical media. 8x GRAMMY® Award-nominated rock band Death Cab for Cutie has shared new two-sided, 12” single, “An Arrow in the Wall” (buy/stream here + order on vinyl here). With an original recording produced by John Congleton, today’s release also includes a remix by synth-pop band CHVRCHES and visualizers courtesy of frequent collaborator Juliet Bryant (Justin Vernon, Japanese Breakfast, Laura Jane Grace) – watch the original visualizer here + remix visualizer here. Of today’s release, lead vocalist and guitarist Ben Gibbard shares: “‘An Arrow In the Wall’ is about the warning signs all around us in the 21st century that society-at-large is in decay. The arrow lodged in the wall might have missed this time, but it would be naive to assume the next one won’t also. We have been good friends with CHVRCHES since touring together in 2019. They took our maudlin little dance track and turned it into a major key club banger.” “An Arrow in the Wall” follows a series of exciting announcements from the band, who is gearing up to embark upon their highly-anticipated co-headline tour with The Postal Service this fall. The tour will bring together tens of thousands of fans to celebrate the 20thanniversary of two seminal albums – Death Cab for Cutie’s Transatlanticism and The Postal Service’s Give Up (both released back in 2003 with a total recording budget of just $20k between the two LP’s).  The historic run kicks off September 5 in Washington DC and includes two sold-out nights at NYC’s Madison Square Garden, three shows at LA’s Hollywood Bowland a recently-announced, already sold-out Chicago date at The Salt Shed, presented by Jam & Riot Fest and following both bands’ headline sets at September’s Riot Fest.  Earlier this year, the tour was named one of GQ’s “12 Pop Culture Releases We’re Most Looking Forward to in 2023” and one of the “23 concerts and albums” the Los Angeles Times is “most excited for in 2023.” Extremely limited tickets for the third and final Hollywood Bowl show can be accessed here; all other dates are entirely sold-out [full routing enclosed below].  Death Cab for Cutie is also celebrating Transatlanticism’s recent RIAA Platinum certification with a band-exclusive vinyl variant (order here). Later this month, Death Cab for Cutie will partner with their hometown MLB team, the Seattle Mariners, for Death Cabby for Cutie day on August 30 to celebrate the 20th birthday of Transatlanticism, as well as second baseman José “Cabby” Caballero’s 27th birthday. Fans who purchase tickets here and attend the Mariners’ August 30 game vs. the Oakland Athletics will have a chance to snag a limited edition Death Cabby for Cutie tee – based on the iconic design of the band's second studio album, We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes. A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance. The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie have also launched a limited-edition online poster series, to celebrate the upcoming tour. From August 9 through September 6, the bands will reveal a new poster available for pre-order each Wednesday, designed by a favorite artist of theirs. They’ve recruited Kozyndan, who created the artwork for three of the original Postal Service singles, as well as Jesse Ledoux, Jose Garcia of Zoca Studio, Kii Arens, and Brijean for the project. Posters will be available in both The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie webstores. --- Please consider becoming a member so we can keep bringing you stories like this one. ◎ https://chorus.fm/news/death-cab-for-cutie-an-arrow-in-the-wall/

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Top 5 artworks :)

Kohler’s Pig – Michael Sowa, 1995. It looks like one of those sultry, sticky summer days when you can tell a storm is brewing and you simply cannot get comfortable. The water looks deliciously cool and inviting. The darkness of the pond contrasting with the bright diver. The anticipated delight, as the little pig is just about to make a big splash. And in the back of my mind, there’s that old wives’ tale that pigs can’t swim because with their sharp trotters, they would cut their throats. I do see this as a joyful image, but I like that ambivalence too.

A Dark Pool – Laura Knight, 1914. That almost lilac-coloured sea contrasted with the punchy orange of the figure. The way the breeze moves her dress. The way she stands there with such calm dignity, meditative, like a Greek statue. This one is also a mix of joy and sadness – this pool isn’t particularly dark, but there was sadness in Knight’s life at the time. She and her husband had been happy living in Cornwall, ‘a carefree life of sunlit pleasure’, entertaining friends and feeling inspired to paint. But in 1914, Knight’s friend Florence died by suicide, and for the world, WW1 was on the horizon. This painting is a snapshot of a moment of beauty during a tumultuous time.

Surprised! – Henri Rousseau, 1891. This is one of those paintings that comes alive in the gallery, a photo can’t really represent the way he rendered the rain with thin streaks of varnish. You can just feel the whooshing of the wind with those bending, outsized leaves. It’s almost like there’s a spotlight on the tiger, it’s lit up by that distant crack of lightning. I like the way the tiger isn’t naturalistic, but more like a motif from classical Indian art. It makes it seem like an exciting scene from a storybook. Rousseau created his wild pictures based on nature he saw in parks or zoos, or read about in books, giving them this surreal, imaginary quality.

Uprisings – Kozyndan (Kozue and Dan Kitchens), 2002. This is just such a charming take on Hokusai’s Great Wave. A cheeky, playful conversation between east and west, between the iconic work and a contemporary spin on it. In the original there’s that towering wave poised to come crashing down, and here it’s all wriggling and tumbling bunnies. This is part of a series called Seasons of the Bunny which all riff on well-known ukiyo-e woodblocks. Bunnies are multiplying as seafoam in this one – in the others, they become blossom or falling leaves or snowdrifts. More like fairies or shinto spirits than actual rabbits. Where the Hokusai is roiling and dramatic, this has a certain dreamy tranquility.

The Dress-Lamp Tree – Tim Walker, 2002. Walker mostly does fashion and celebrity photography for magazines like Vogue, but this one – without any models in it – really encapsulates what’s magical about all his work. It’s whimsical and pretty and strange and dreamlike and theatrical. His photographs often have a sense of decay or ageing, of time passing. There was a breeze in the air that night, and Walker had to shoot with a long exposure because of the very low light. It was extremely difficult to get a shot where the dresses weren’t blurry. So this picture is a fleeting instant of perfection.

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"Uprisings" 2003

Art by kozyndan

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Uprisings - Kozyndan

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"The Seasons of the Bunny" series based on old Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints

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Kozy Kitchen & Kozyndan’s “The Exodus” at Nucleus Portland.

Currently on view at Nucleus Portland in Portland, Oregon is Kozy Kitchen & Kozyndan’s solo exhibition, “The Exodus.”

Kozy Kitchens is a visual artist from Japan, living in Los Angeles over half her life now. Making with clay is a purely joyful experience for her. Her hand built ceramic sculptures and functional objects are playful, often humorous, and influenced by a deep appreciation of animals and the natural world. She also creates drawings, paintings, murals, and other projects under the moniker kozyndan (often along with her husband, Dan).

Kozyndan are husband-and-wife artists who work collaboratively to create obsessively detailed works of art. They work in drawing, painting, sculpture and photography. Their work often revolves around nature and our disconnection/ need for reconnection with the natural world. They are obsessed with the ocean and being underwater and hope to someday come to rest at the bottom of the sea and slowly be devoured by deep creatures over many years.

The exhibition is on view until January 15th, 2020.

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Kozyndan (Kozue and Dan Kitchens), Coyote Street Gang (Best Google Street View Ever), 2017. Nihonga painting on traditional scroll. 

[full scroll and picture’s details from Kozyndan’s blog]

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Guess what? Teapot! New #bunnyblossom Teapot, Espresso set and Oliver Bowl from #kozyndan available now at www.clickforart.com #timefortea https://www.instagram.com/p/gK62tCL-Ko/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4todiks19rde

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"Life Is Puzzling"

Offset Poster Print on 80lb Cover Stock, 30 x 10 inches (768x251mm), Signed

We are all just pieces in this infinite piece puzzle of the grand Universe!

We were recently reprinting some of our long-running popular posters and our printer here in Yamanashi said their was extra space on the large sheets they were using for the print job we decided to make use of it to make some new posters, including this one. This Panoramic artwork is based on a Paris street corner.

We originally created this artwork for a jigsaw puzzle released by German puzzle company, but it is long since sold out, so we decided to release it as a poster for the first time more than 16 years after we first drew and colored this unusual edition to our Panoramic series.

Available now! Purchase one HERE!

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Kozyndan - The shark charmer 

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Kozyndan: The Golden State at The Gregario Escalante Gallery September 2 - October 8, 2017

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http://www.kozyndanart.com/

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