Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars
October 30 – December 16, 2024
The National Art Center, Tokyo
https://www.nact.jp/english/
https://www.nact.jp/english/exhibition_special/2024/eiarakawanash/index.html
Curator: Naoki Yoneda (Curator of The National Art Center, Tokyo)
Installation view, “Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars,” The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2024
Installation view, “Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars,” The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2024
Ei Arakawa-Nash, Mega Please Draw Freely (2024)
Ei Arakawa-Nash, See Weeds (2024 Edit) (2024)
from Top: Jiro Yoshihara, White on Black (1965), Amy Sillman, Tabards for Ei (2013)
Daishiro Mori with Ei Arakawa-Nash, Wallpaper (featuring Laura Owens’ Thomas Starr King Middle School paintings from 2018 in actual size) (2006)
Laura Owens, Untitled (2006)
Installation view, “Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars,” The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2024
Installation view, “Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars,” The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2024
Installation view, “Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars,” The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2024
Ei Arakawa-Nash & Forrest Arakawa-Nash, Yui Yaegashi, installation view, “Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars,” The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2024
from Left: Nicole Eisenman, Freddy (2009), George (c.2009)
Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Basin Painting (Sai Rak Phai Si / Paint with Love) (2024)
Yui Yaegashi, Double Stroller Painting (2024)
Installation view, “Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars,” The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2024
Leidy Churchman with Ei Arakawa-Nash & Amy Sillman, Painting Treatments (2024 Version) (2024)
Ei Arakawa-Nash, Kerstin Brätsch, Nicole Eisenman, and Laura Owens, Nemesis Painting (2022)
Installation view, “Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars,” The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2024
from Top: Ei Arakawa-Nash, Flag (Ellsworth Kelly, Spectrum I, 1953) (2024), Untitled (Agnes Martin, Untitled, c.1957) (2024)
Reiji Saito with Ei Arakawa-Nash, Yuriko Kozumi, Pico (Takahiko Saito), and Mayu Takahashi, Untitled (Ellsworth Kelly, Spectrum I, 1953 & Theatre Company LGBTI Tokyo at the National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan) (2024)
Ei Arakawa-Nash, Panels (Ellsworth Kelly, Spectrum I, 1953) (2024)
Reiji Saito with Ei Arakawa-Nash, Kontakthof. With Ladies and Gentlemen Over 65 (The 75th Mainichi Shodo Exhibition at the National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan) (2024)
Ei Arakawa-Nash, Grand Drape (Jutta Koether, La Femme, 2006) (2024)
Jutta Koether, Mad Garland (2024)
Ei Arakawa-Nash & Karl Holmqvist, Paintings Are Pop Stars (Michael Buthe, La Belle Jardiniére, 1984) (2024)
Installation view, “Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars,” The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2024
Kerstin Brätsch, Kerstin Brätsch for UNITED BROTHERS Interchangeable Mylar (3 parts) “Glow Rod Tanning with…” series (2011-2024)
UNITED BROTHERS with Kerstin Brätsch & DAS INSTITUT, Iwaki Odori 2011 (2024)
Ei Arakawa-Nash, Untitled (Ellsworth Kelly, Painting in Three Panels, 1956) (2024)
UNITED BROTHERS with Kerstin Brätsch & Hayata Ishikawa & Noboru Ishikawa, Untitled (Yotsukura Beach, Fukushima, Japan) (2024)
Installation view, “Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars,” The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2024
Oscar Murillo, Telegrams to the People of Tokyo (2013-2024)
Miho Hatori with Ei Arakawa-Nash, Hello Hello Halo-Halo (David Medalla, Self Portrait, 1984) (2024)
Yoko Ono, installation view, “Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars,” The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2024
Yumi Matsutoya, Masataka Matsutoya, Henri Matisse, installation view, “Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars,” The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2024
Henri Matisse, Face (1951)
from Left: Toshi Maruki (Toshiko Akamatsu), Palau (1940), Tales of Yap (1943)
Shimon Minamikawa, 4 x 4 painting (2024)
Miyoko Ito, Untitled (1970)
Ei Arakawa-Nash, Improvisation (Academische Grati) (2024)
Ei Arakawa-Nash, Cave Painting (Academische Graffiti and NACT Moving Walls) (2024)
Ei Arakawa-Nash, Untitled (On Kawara, APR. 13, 1978, 1978) (2024)
Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Dusk in Autumn (1929)
Reiji Saito with Ei Arakawa-Nash & Kosuke Kameda, Modèle (Otsuka Museum of Art, Tokushima, Japan) (2024)
Installation view, “Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars,” The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2024
Silke Otto-Knapp, installation view, “Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars,” The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2024
Reiji Saito with Ei Arakawa-Nash, Asahi Ishikawa, Silke Otto-Knapp, Ikumi Yang, Untitled (Silke Otto-Knapp at Nogizaka Station & The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan) (2024)