Opening Reception Yokohama-Houston Exchange Show

Redbud Arts Center is delighted to present the Yokohama-Houston Exchange exhibit. This group exchange exhibition between artists from Japan and the United States is a continuation of an exhibition that started some 4 years ago titled, The 3rd. Crosscurrent U.S-Japan at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Yokohama, Japan. In Japan, Hideo Iida and Izumi Tanabe were instrumental in organizing the Japanese artists. In the United States, Suguru Hiraide, Danny Bills, and Gustav Kopriva are the primary individuals responsible for organizing this current exhibition. In the United States, Redbud Arts Center in Houston and the Museum of Art at MSU Texas are hosting this exhibition.

The ideas expressed by these artists are vast and diverse: the environment, humor, the land, sea, water & sky, cultural idiosyncrasies, the human form, color, scale, outsider art, and the physicality of using the hand in creating artwork.

We are excited about this exhibition and hope that this work fosters further cultural and artistic exchange.