Lo Chan Peng is a renowned artist who has won numerous awards both domestically and internationally. These awards include the ARC Collection Award from the Art Renewal Center in the United States, the Portrait Honors Award from the Art Renewal Center in the United States, the ARC Best Popular Award from the Art Renewal Center in the United States (2020), the Federal Art Newcomer Award (2004), and the Chi Mei Art Award (2007). Since 2011, Lo Chan Peng has participated in several large-scale international art exchange programs as a resident artist, including those in Berlin, Germany (2011) and the El Segundo
Museum of Arts in Los Angeles, United States (2013). In recent years, he has participated in major exhibitions and art fairs such as "2023 Secret Longings, COREY HELFORD GALLERY, Los Angeles, United States," "2022 'One World,' Tokyo, Japan," "2020 'People Changed by History and Those Who Change History,' Taiwan," and "Portraiture 2020, United States," which was exhibited in Taipei, London, Tokyo, Osaka, Busan, Seoul, Moscow, Singapore, and other international art fairs. Lo Chan Peng's works are collected by the El Segundo Museum of Arts in the United States, the Hoki Museum in Japan, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the Chi Mei Museum in Taiwan, the National Culture and Arts Foundation in Taiwan, and many private collectors both domestically and internationally.
Lo Chan Peng's works mainly focus on portraits and cover a wide range of media including oil paintings and ink wash. In his works, he often explores issues related to time, history, and the boundaries between life and death. Through his figurative and delicate portraiture, as well as traces of wear and tear, damage, burning, and stains, he brings a powerful visual experience to viewers. In doing so, he transforms abstract concepts such as time and history into visible elements and creates a unique artistic vocabulary. In recent years, his main subjects include "people changed by history," "those who change history," and "light." The main characteristic of his work is the indescribable expression of the figures in his paintings, which are profound and mysterious. Lo Chan Peng believes that this simple purity comes from his life experience and is what all great artists have pursued throughout history.
Website: https://lochanpeng.com
Japanese Illustrator, Tsuyoshi Nagano was born in Tokyo in 1961. He graduated in the Department of Fine Arts of College of Art. He worked as a graphic designer, and then he is active as a freelance Illustrator since 1988.
He is one of the most famous in a illustration of person. His artworks are painted with oil color without any use of CG, and are well known for its realistic, powerful and dramatic.
career
1995-2015：worked on the cover artworks for video games, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Nobunaga’s Ambition produced by Koei.
1999-2018：created the cover of novels of Star Wars for version the Japanese spin-off. And he worked on the illustrations of the book, The Tempest written by Eiichi Ikegami.
2008-：hold the original illustration exhibitions and original print exhibitions in Japan.
artworks：
console games
・series of “Nobunaga’s Ambition” produced by Koei
・series of “The Romance of the Three Kingdoms” produced by Koei
・series of “Taikou Risshiden” produced by Koei
mobile games
・“Kamigoku no Valhalla Gate” produced by Grani, Inc.(illustrations of cards)
・“Dairantou!! Sangokushi battle” produced by gloops,Inc.(illustrations of cards etc.)
book covers
・“Weekly Visual Sanguozhi” produced by SEKAI BUNKA PUBLISHING INC.
・“The Tempest” written by Eiichi Ikegami, Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd.
・series of “Star Wars: The New Jedi Order” for Japanese editions produced by Sony Magazines Inc.
・“Sangokushi” 1-10 written by Eiji Yoshikawa,SHINCHO BUNKO
・“Musashi” 1-8 written by Eiji Yoshikawa,SHINCHO BUNKO
・“Shin heike monogatari” 1-20 written by Eiji Yoshikawa,SHINCHO BUNKO
other
・“Bara to Samurai ～GoemonRock Over Drive” by Gekidan☆Shinkansen (visual)
・“Otona no nurie Sengoku warlord editions” produced by Kawade Shobo Shinsha (coloring book)
・“The Complete Guide to Drawing Sanguozhi and Angel” produced by Hobby Japan (technique book)
Suzume Uchida is a young art collector as well as a model for a number of painters. She debuted as an artist in 2014 with a series of black-and-white miniatures drawn in pencil. Since then she has expanded her world of creativity into oil painting, ink paintings and installation works. Splendor, as well as fastidiousness, makes us feel the transcendent and fragile nature of her art. Her works which embody a range of the spiritual phases of human beings have inherent capaciousness which is subtly perceived by the viewer.
Website: suzumeu.tokyo
Miho Hirano is attempting to express the fragility of life as well as its maturity and continuously changing circumstance. The flowing lines of curves and the subtle colors are signature elements in her works. She successfully composes in one frame human and natural motifs such as flowers, birds, fish or water. Her delicate oil paintings invite viewers to her world in which decorative beauty and fragility perfectly co-exist.
Website: mihohirano.strikingly.com
A bewitching and mysterious figure emerges in the jet-black world, and the feature is fusion of abstract expressions.
The beauty of the color is excellent, female milky skin tone against the deep black high purity background.
The vivid blue and red contrast of the mineral pigment is in beautiful harmony.
In addition, her beautiful matiere made with the fine black background and coarse particles creates an original world view in the artistic and decorative harmony.
Kuroki Mitsuko's paintings of Japanese beauty is created with deep understanding of traditional Japanese paintings.
It can certainly be said that it is a new generation of Japanese paintings.
Website: kuroki-mitsuko.jimdofree.com
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As graduate of Tama Art University, Department of Japanese Painting, she completed her Master's in Japanese Painting. Since she was a student, her works have been submitted to a number of exhibitions and awarded many prizes. Ai Kumehara’s works will complex natural mineral colors which she applies to thin Japanese papers that are layered on a screen. In this way, she creates a sense of a colored haze raging from light to rich deep hues. Her challenge is to make the layers create different space – time, what she calls the “Scenery of past and present,” as the colors build and recede on the surface.
You cannot help but feel the full sensitivity of her emotion for colors and coexistence of material as if the past and present simultaneously appears and disappears.
Website: aikumehara.com
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Kana Tsumura's work, which won the Excellence Award for her graduation project, impressed many people with her unique worldview. The overwhelming descriptive power of the still life on the dining table, the blue tablecloth, and the multiple hands depicted on it...
A still life painting, as the name suggests, portrays motionless objects. Its history is long, and various genres exist depending on the historical background.
The interesting aspect of Kana's still life paintings is that by adding 'hands' as a motif, the motionless objects seem to convey a human presence or intention. The partially eaten food and the traces of wine glasses depicted on the blue dining table invite the viewer from a world of silence into a world filled with presence and warmth. The new interpretation of classical still life by this young female artist, showcased through her overwhelming skill, quietly speaks to the imagination of each viewer.
Junna Maruyama of Japanese artist was born in 1999.
Her artwork while in high school, “Coffin” was an opportunity to get attention in Japanese modern art world.
In 2019, after graduating from high school, She won a prize at the 87th Dokuritsu Exhibition.（The National Art Center, Tokyo） for the first time.
In the same year, she made her debut from HRD in China.
Many paintings of Junna Maruyama are created in the motif of “girls”, especially the girls between child and adult.
Thought drawing the girls, she ask herself a question of “What is myself?”. Actually, the girls in her artworks has an ennui face and ask us about our identity too.
And then, one of the characteristic of her drawing style is color. Her artworks are uses many glossy and bright colors.
The girls having ennui face and glossy colors in her paintings will continue to fascinate anybody regardless of nationality or sex.
We can't take our eyes off evolving Junna Maruyama.
Website: junnamaruyama.com
Before graduating from Toyo Institute of Art and Design, Hiroshi Kobayashi was awarded the New Face Award of the 47th Shutaiten Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum) in 2011. Since graduating in 2012, Kobayashi’s creativity has flourished resulting in his contribution to exhibitions at department stores in Tokyo, galleries and others. His creative theme is "the present," the real world around him. Visual reality and "beauty" are pursued through the medium of oil painting. His light-dark expression created by using vibrant red and blue in the deep-color-tone range is distinctive. He believes that the pursuit of reality in his works is fascinating as it can mirror the inner face of a viewer.
Website: kobayashihiroshi.jimdo.com
Takahiro Hirabayashi was born in Nagano in Japan in 1984. He graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2011. From 2015, he has been active in art fairs and private shows overseas such as Taiwan, Singapore and the United States etc... The theme of his works is hometown, Suwa. He especially get inspiration from the culture of Suwa as “Shinto ritual”, and “Dosojin” （the traveler’s guardian deity）. Through these ancient roots of thought, he create artworks that touched the viewer's heart.
It seeks to blur the boundary between the real world and the world of gods and spirits, and to express the sense of being one world.
It is a nostalgic world, a place to which we will return someday, and a place where we can feel at home, a place we are unconsciously searching for.
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While Mitsuru Ichikawa was in school, her works were submitted to a number of exhibitions and awarded numerous prizes. Her distinctive talent attracted strong admiration at these exhibitions. Using many layers of different materials, colors and “sgraffito” technique, she creates her signature rainbow-colored style. “Night sea journey”, a psychological concept of Carl Jung, underlies her works. She expresses her complex mental views of “life” and “death, “virtuality” and “reality” using mirrors or other objects. Ichikawa says “sgraffito seems to cure broken souls and is a must-have technique for my creation. It may give a direction to my style”.
Website: mitsuru-i.com
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After graduating from Joshibi Univerisity of Art and Design, Masako Asaba studied at KONSTFACK University college of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm Sweden. She shows her new style of Japanese painting both in Japan and Overseas. In recent years, she has focused on Shunga and strived to make it into her own style. She explains that Shunga is an art known worldwide but is hesitated in Japanese museums because they express the Shunga paradox of Japanese society. She enjoys the difference between Japanese and Western nude paintings.
Generally, in the history of western art, women turn their gaze to men as observers.
But women in Shunga are not aware of viewers and behave without any hesitations.
Deference in characteristics such as these have pulled Masako Asaba further into Shunga art.
The women in her paintings enter into the new art world where customs are more open than the closed Shunga world and the women take on attractive expressions. Masako Asaba successfully makes a new style of Shunga with layers and outlines of female figures.
Website: http://www.masakoasaba.com
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"A grain of rice, a one-yen coin, such things being right there are the ones that indeed connect to everything" says the artist, Yukyo Yamamoto. Since he was in school, his works have been submitted to a number of exhibitions and awarded grand prizes. His success provides increased opportunities for exhibition. His art ranges widely from flat-surface works to installations. The underlying purpose of his production is to connect a micro world such as a grain of rice or a one-yen coin to a wider macro world. Although his motifs are the micro one-yen coin and grain of rice, the scale of the world in his works embraces universal concepts. He invites the viewers to create and feel the macro world around them through his works.
Website: yukyo-yamamoto.jimdo.com
Maiko Yoshizawa was born in Chiba Japan.
She is an artist whose works revolve around the theme of "Creating Hope." She employs mineral pigments and acrylic paints on the canvas to give her pieces a narrative quality. Her motifs often involve the human body and organs, depicting the transformative process into various entities, thereby expressing the possibilities of both the physical and the mental realms. Besides painting, she is actively engaged as a performance artist and a body painter for events like stages.
