For immediate release

Ichiro Irie and Lucas Kazansky
Shatter. Splatter. Slither. Scrunch
November 29 – December 27, 2014
eitoeiko is pleased to announce the two person exhibition with Ichiro Irie and Lucas Kazansky.
Following Irie's 2012 exhibition, "Slap, Stick and Mark”, artists Ichiro Irie and Lucas Kazansky
collaborate present the two person exhibition “Shatter. Splatter. Slither. Scrunch”. Like theprevious exhibition, the title for this show consists of onomatopoeia that represents the diverse
approaches, processes and physical characteristics of the works on display.
Having recently completed his BA in Design MediaArt at UCLA, Lucas Kazansky has been creating
media art, kinetic sculpture, and videos that revolvearound his fascination with the concept andaesthetics of destruction and self destruction. Irie,
having received his BA in Film Studies andCommunications Studies at UCSB, and his MFA at
Claremont Graduate University, has been making
work more recently around these ideas as well,especially in relation to modernity and consumption.
Having been acquainted for over 7 years, Irie
initially approached Kazansky because of theirmutual fascination with cars, albeit for different
reasons. Irie sees the car as an object that conjures

Ichiro Irie and Lucas Kazansky

the symbolic death of an ideal, and sees thePET Monster Gomira

automobile as fulfilling both our basic erotic needs,2014 3D metallic resin print

and our drive towards death. Kazansky loves sports
cars, in spite of the fact that they have been an outlet for his past self destructive behavior.
Through a series of conversations, Irie and Kazansky have developed an exhibition which will
showcase both collaborative and individual works that feature imagery and objects not only
related to the automobile, but other byproducts of consumer society in varying states of decay andcollapse. The exhibition will feature found object, sculpture paintings, 3D prints, kinetic sculpture,drawings, and interactive media art using downloadable software on mobile devices.
A special thanks to Ryman Arts and the Sharon D. Lund Master Teaching Artist Award for theirgenerous support.
Another special thanks to Daqri for their technological and intellectual support.

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LUCAS KAZANSKY
www.cargocollective.com/lucaskazansky
Lucas Kazansky is a designer and media artists who works with experimental technologies in thecreation of works of fine art, and commercial and industrial designs. He received his BA at UCLAin Design Media Art. As an artist, he has exhibited at UAM, Long Beach, JAUS, Los Angeles, Videor
Art Foundation, Germany, 18th Street Art Center, Los Angeles, and Control Room, Los Angeles.
Kazansky currently lives in Los Angeles, and works as an experimental designer for the augmented
reality developer DAQRI.
ICHIRO IRIE
www.ichiro-irie.com
Born in Tokyo and raised in Los Angeles, Ichiro Irie received his B.A. from University of California,
Santa Barbara and his M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University. In 2001, Irie went to Mexico
City on a Fulbright fellowship.
Irie has exhibited his work internationally in galleries and museums in Los Angeles, New York,Mexico City, Tokyo, London, Warsaw, Frankfurt, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong andSingapore. He has had solo shows at O-Itatti gallery in Mexico City, Sam Francis Gallery in Santa
Monica, CA, Yautepec Gallery in Mexico City, and eitoeiko gallery in Tokyo. Recent groupexhibitions include Mexicali Bienial 2013 at VPAM and Sur Biennial 2011 in Los Angeles, A Strange
Affinity to the Beautiful and the Dreadful at Hendershot gallery in New York, Chockablock at UAM,Long Beach, The Crystal Jungle at Museo del Chopo in Mexico City, Subterraneans at Torrance Art
Museum in Torrance, CA, Bleach at Gallery Lara in Tokyo, and 100 Million Angels Singing at Jens
Fehring gallery in Frankfurt. Irie currently lives and works in Los Angeles, teaches at Oxnard
College and Ryman Arts, and is an artist in residence at 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica,CA.
EXHIBITION DATA
Artists: Ichiro Irie and Lucas Kazansky
Exhibition Title: Shatter. Splatter. Slither. Scrunch
Date: November 29 – December 27, 2014
Open: 12PM-7PM, closed on Sunday, Monday and National Holidays
Opening Party: November 29, 6PM-9PM
Special Thanks: Ryman Arts and the Sharon D. Lund Master Teaching Artist Award, and Daqri
Venue: eitoeiko, 32-2 Yaraicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0805, Japan
Phone: +81 (0)3.6873.3830
Contact: ei@eitoeiko.com (Ei Kibukawa/Director of the gallery)

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