EXHIBITION

July 4 (Wed) - 24 (Tue), 2012 at DMO ARTS

Reception:July 7 (Sat) 6-8pm
Everyone's welcome!
This is actually Chiaki's birthday!

Live Painting Events:July 8 (Sun) 1-6pmJuly 21 (Sat) 1-6pm

Artist website: http://www.chiakikohara.com/

June 20 (wed) - July 3 (Tue), 2012 at DMO ARTS

Reception: June 23 (Sat) 6pm

Artist website: http://akimiyajima.com/

May 30 (Wed) - June 19 (Tue), 2012 at DMO ARTS

Opening Reception:June 2 (Sat) 6-8pm

Live Painting events:
June 2 (Sat) 1pm
June 9 (Sat) 1pm
June 16 (Sat) 1pm
(Schedule of events may change without notice. Please check back later.)

May 16 (Wed) - 29 (Tue), 2012 at DMO ARTS

Artist talk:All about The Surf Ivy May 26 (Sat) 4-6pmCommunity Salon, the 2nd basement floor, JR Osaka Mitsukoshi Isetan

Guests: Koji Toyoda (Palm Graphics), Hiroshi Kubo (BEAMS), Shuichi Ichiyoshi, Yoshihiro Taniguchi (DMO ARTS)

Reception:May 26 (Sat) 6-8pm at DMO ARTS
Everyone is welcome!

For the first anniversary of JR Osaka Mitsukoshi Isetan, contemporary art galleries in Osaka hold an exhibition together!

May 2 (Wed) - 15 (Tue), 2012 at JR Osaka Mitsukoshi Isetan
6th Floor: Art Liberation Front / 3rd Floor: DMO ARTS

[Participating Artists]
Ayako Ono (DMO ARTS), Shoichi Mukai (Gallery Fukuda), danny (Gallery Fukuda), Aya Murata (YOD Gallery), Ken Kagajo (YOD Gallery), Keigo Kamide (Yoshimi Arts), momo (Tengensya Gallery), Akiko Sumiyoshi (TEZUKAYAMA Gallery)

[Events]
May 4 (Fri/National holiday)
3-5pm: Artist & gallerist talk (in the community salon on the B2 floor, 50 seats maximum)
5:30-8pm: Reception (both on the 3rd and the 6th floor)

For more details: +81-6-6485-7341 (DMO ARTS)

April18 (Wed) - May 1 (Tue), 2012 at DMO ARTS

Reception party:April 21 (Sat) 6-8pmEveryone's welcome!

March 28 (Wed) - April 17 (Tue), 2012 at DMO ARTS
Opening Reception:April 7 (Sat) 6-8pmEveryone is welcome.

buggy portrays todya's vibrant, mysterious, and attractive fashion icons!
DMO ARTS holds a solo exhibition of buggy who has been active in Osaka.
Since buggy started his career in 2002, he has always been working in the fields of fashion and pop culture through creating artwork for magazines, CD jackets, T-shirts and holding live painting events.
His works, portraying charismatic designers and supermodels with his wit, has attracted attention from many fashion addicts.
His fans are all over Japan and his My First ART print series have been one of the top sellers at DMO ARTS.
This exhibition is also full of fashion icons.
Besides original artowrk, there will be prints, underwear, and T-shirts.
Please enjoy a fusion of art and trend.

buggy:After graduating from a design school and working for a design office, buggy established a design unit buggy in 2002.
He is currently working as solo.
2003: Selected for FM802 Art Audition and participated in FUNKY802 STREET ART EXHIBITION#8
2005: Held a solo exhibition at Kobe Fashion Museum
2006: Participated in a group exhibition at LONDON COSH GALLERY
2006: Held a solo exhibition at digmeout CAFE, OsakaAt UNIQLO CREATIVE AWARD 2007, he received Yoshitaka Amano Award.
He has created artwork for Numero Tokyo, VOGUE NIPPON, Figaro japan, MSPC bags, CD jackets, and T-shirts.
He has also created visuals for the music festival RUSH BALL in 2007 and 2008.

March 14 (Wed) - 27 (Tue) at DMO ARTS

Opening Reception:March 17 (Sat) 6-8pmEveryone is welcome.
I am myself as an artist.I am myself in artwork.I am myself as an audience.
I have made artowrk that keeps me myself. - Koyo

We will hold a solo exhibition of Koyo who is a hair stylist and illustrator based in Osaka and Tokyo.
Since Koyo started making illustrations in 1992, he has been depicting models, kids and animals in unique style with a sense of humor.
As he has enthusiastic fans, his My First ART giclee prints released at DMO ARTS have been drawing viewers' attention.
In this exhibition, Koyo goes back to the basics and show the works on the theme that he truly wanted to work on.
Please enjoy the world of Koyo that is stylish and somewhat lovely.

Koyo
2011: Resumption - My First ART series are on sale at DMO ARTS
2009: Sick leave (-2010)
2008: Participated in FM802 T-shirt Collection
2007: Featuresd in CREAM 5 Anniversary edition (Hong Kong)
2007: Created illustrations for Japan Organ Transplant Network
2006: Featured in CREAM Summer edition STAR WARS SPECIAL (Hong Kong)
2006: Received Lily Franky Award at UNIQLO CREATIVE AWARD
2005: Received Tadanori Yokoo Award at UNIQLO CREATIVE AWARD
2004: Participated in Compound Gallery Exhibition (Portland, OR)
2002: Collaborated with Itokin Tokyo Collection
2001: Created illustrations for FM802 (Poster / T-shirts design)
1992: Received Japan Illustration Award

February 22 (Wed) - March 13 (Tue), 2012
Opening Reception:February 25 (Sat) 6-8pm at DMO ARTSEveryone is welcome.

Hello Pen Friend! airmails, stamps and postmarks that he has collected as if he was a curious child.
He has created many characters and animals with eloquent facial expressions.
He has named them Pen Friend and display them in the gallery space at DMO ARTS.
It must be the first time for you to see them but you would somehow feel nostalgic.
You may want to hang one of them in your room or to give it to someone you love.
Please come see the Pen Friends.
At this exhibition, his original artwork is on sale, as well as My First ART giclee prints and GUNZE BODYWILD pants. There will be an opening reception and a workshop.
Don't miss it!

Nakamura Mucho Yoshiteru
Born in 1978, Nakamura has created artwork for CD jacket of Chikuzen Sato, NISSAN WINGROAD x digmeout JAPAN TOUR, Hong Kong APM calendar, KIRIN Hyoketsu nylon bag, MSPC messenger bag, GUNZE BODY WILD.
He has held many solo exhibitins at cafes and galleries.
His collages, consisting of commodities that people are familiar with, are as if illustrating interest of a little boy who loves collecting toys.

February 1 (Wed) - 21 (Tue), 2012The number 11 means a loop or infinity.
Something repeatedly comes apart, change their form, meet again, touch, and fall apart.
This is something like a story or a song in the world of 11 layers.
Through depicting animals and invisible ones, I wished to portray the things that cannot be expressed in words.
- riya

We will hold a solo exhibition of the artist Riya.Born in Chicago in 1985.
Riya graduated from Tama Art University, concentration on textile design.
With cut out technique, she arranges icons like animals, humans, waves, clouds, fire, and skull.
Her works indicates ecology and ethnicity.
In 2009, she was selected for the art project of digmeout and SONY Canvas@Sony and created a mural of 38 meters high at SONY building, Ginza, Tokyo.
Besides having exhibitions, she has created illustrations and designed various kinds of products.
The theme of this solo exhibition is 11.
To indicate transmigration and the universe, Riya has cut out the lives of many creatures in the circle with 11 layers.
At this exhibition, her original artwork is on sale, as well as My First ART giclee prints, BARCOS tote bags, and GUNZE BODYWILD pants.
http://homepage3.nifty.com/riya/

Opening Reception:Saturday, February 4 (Sat) 6-8pm.Everyone is welcome.