skrl art prjct

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
skrl art prjct @ Brooklyn Oenology Winery Tasting Room
209 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211(718) 599-1259
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 30, 6-9pm
Exhibition Dates: July 23 - September 8, 2015
Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 2pm to 10pm, Saturday and Sunday, 12pm to 10pm

LAYERS
Hiromitsu Kuroo & Michael Miller
skrl art prjct is pleased to present “Layers”, our third pop-up group exhibition, featuring work by Hiromitsu Kuroo
and Michael Miller, at Brooklyn Oenology Winery Tasting Room, 209 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211, fromrdthth
July 23 to September 8 , 2015. The opening reception is on Thursday, July 30 , 6 to 9pm.
"Layers" brings together two abstract painters who express their vision by using multiple strata of paint in theirwork to create both visual and metaphorical depth. In Miller's work, the suggestion of hidden or buried layers is areference to history and memory informed by his experience of growing up in a declining shipbuilding city in
Scotland. For Kuroo, a Japanese expatriate in New York wrestling with his cultural identity, the incorporation oflayers represents his attempt to come to terms with these two very different worlds through his work.
Hiromitsu Kuroo, a Brooklyn-based artist, was born and grew up in Japan. Kuroo is a collage painter working in
the tradition of origami (the art of folding paper). In his case, the canvas serves as the paper, and the gentle
manipulation of its surface is how he conveys intricate textural landscapes. The multiple layers of colors in his
folded canvases are revealed by sanding the canvas surface. Interested in the juxtaposition and vitality ofcollaged pieces of canvas, he uses them to accentuate other emerging shapes in his compositions. Kuroo has
exhibited at the Uneo Royal Museum, Tokyo (1999), the Ishibashi Museum of Art, Fukuoka (2000), and theKouriyama Museum Fukushima (2000). In the United States, he has had solo shows at The Bronx Community
college, NY (2006), Gloria Kennedy Gallery, NY (2007, 2008 and 2009), Graphite, NY (2011), Tenri Gallery, NY(2012), 1133 Lobby Gallery (2014) and MIKIMOTO NY (2014). He was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Grant in 2010. Hiromitsu Kuroo’s works are held in the permanent collections of Miyagi National School ofTechnology, Tohuku University of Art and Design, and the City of Yamagata, Japan.
Michael Miller’s current work draws on disruptive camouflage patterns applied to transatlantic shipping during thefirst half of the 20th century. This camouflage, known as “dazzle”, was not intended to hide the ships to which it
was applied, but rather, through the use of dramatic geometric patterning, to disrupt and distort a vessel’s form,
thus presenting a visual puzzle. Miller employs layers to emphasize this constant process of revelation andconcealment. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Miller trained in academic drawing at the Liceo Artistico Leon Battista
Alberti in Florence, Italy, and subsequently in oil painting with the Laborarte Group in the same city. In 2006, hemoved to Maputo, Mozambique, where he was heavily influenced by traditional designs, the work of local
artists and, more generally, by the art and religious objects of Sub-Saharan Africa. While in Mozambique he alsobegan to collect and experiment with natural pigments. On moving to New York in 2010, Miller studied abstract
painting, drawing and assemblage at the The Art Students League. In May 2012, he was awarded the League'sHenri Matisse Estate Merit Scholarship. In 2014 he was selected as a visiting artist at the Brooklyn NavyYard. Michael has studied at the universities of Edinburgh, Leicester and Pennsylvania and the Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has a doctorate in history and civilization from the European University
Institute in Florence.
Brooklyn Oenology Winery (pron. ‘EN-ology’, or simply ‘BOE’), brooklynoenology.com is a locally focusedwinery based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn founded in 2006 by winemaker Alie Shaper. BOE works to bridge thecreative culinary, agricultural and art worlds by crafting award-winning regional wines from NY State grapes, andby displaying the work of New York City artists on their bottle labels.
###Contact Information: Renée Larson, Director of skrl art prjct, skrlrenee@gmail.com, (917) 673-5909
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