GLAZED PARADISE

MARK JENKINS & MIHO KINOMURA

MAY 24, 2008 – AUG 15, 2008

CONCEPT

The installation is an exercise that invites the audience to actively investigate and in some ways participate in a frozen hyperreality.

Mark Jenkins
www.xmarkjenkinsx.com

Mark Jenkins is an American installation artist who uses packing tape to create sculptures that he installs in urban and natural environments as well as indoor environments including cafeterias, high school lockers, toilets, and art galleries. His work has shown in major international cities including NYC, LA, London, Sao Paulo and Bethlehem. This is his first visit to Japan.
Miho Kinomura
www.studiodoginc.com

Miho Kinomura is a Creative Director and Film Director, who currently divides her time between creative studio in Los Angeles and Tokyo. She began her career working as a fashion designer in Japan, before moving to New York where she set up her production company STUDIO D.O.G INC Alongside producing and directing numerous fashion related advertisements for clients including Shiseido, Parco and Swarovski, Beams She will direct the making film of Mark Jenkins as a collaboration with Mark for this gallery.

Curator: STUDIO D.O.G.INC; Established at New York in 1990, as a production company which is a profession of fashion industry.
Miho Kinomura is the representative of the STUDIO D.O.G. INC (http://www.studiodoginc.com), located in Los Angeles, which collaborates with outstanding creators across the board. In her activities, she has expanded her portfolio by using global networking in fashion brand advertising, commercial film, music video, designing catalogs and website.
Miho used Vincent Gallo for the advertisement of Parco, Japanese department store. This was the first time for Vincent who came out in Japanese commercial film and Miho created the fad of Vincent Gallo in Japan.
In a Parco gallery, it was in the news that Miho created the collaboration among a worldwide photographer, Ellen Von Unwerth's exhibition and commercial film. In the BEAMS 30th anniversary advertisement “Tokyo Style Clash Hot or Not ”, Miho, representative of STUDIO D.O.G.INC,and Kensui Arao, a creative partner, collaborated with creative group “SHOW STUDIO” led by UK charismatic photographer, Nick Knight, and they were awarded the bronze medal in the “Clio Award” Innovative Media Apparel Fashion category.