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Visual Artists
Writers Takashi Horisaki Takashi Horisaki's (b.1974, Tokyo) practice is a sculptural exploration of surfaces and the histories contained within their layers. Horisaki designs performative systems and object-making processes that become metaphors for the effects of time on our bodies and our environments. Horisaki's work will be included in the Prospect.1 Biennial, New Orleans starting November 2008. His work has been exhibited previously both nationally and internationally, at locations including the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden; Queens Museum of Art, NY; Smack Mellon, NY; Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; Flux Factory Inc, NY; The LAB Gallery, San Francisco; Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery, New Orleans; Murray Guy, NY; the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis; SCOPELondon; and Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis. He is the recipient of awards including the Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship and the 2008 Urban Artist Initiative/New York City Fellowship. For more information, please visit www.takashihorisaki.com 
Birth Rite, 2004 36 x 74 inches latex with primary color pigment, powder 
Warehouse Door, 2006 36 x 80 x 2 inches latex with pigment peeled off objects from the original door, cheese cloth 
Social Dress, New Orleans – 730 days after, 2007 18 x 12 x 30 feet latex, cheese cloth, remnants of Katrina-damaged house, steel pipe, steel wire cable |
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