Audrey Kawasaki in the Big Apple

It’s always nice to keep tabs on people as talented as Audrey Kawasaki. Audrey has an amazing style thats very recognizable. It looks sterile and sexy and sometimes eery or macabre and sweet and all o’ that. I’ve only had the chance to marvel at her work online, but for all the people in New York: Your time is now! The Jonathan LeVine Gallery is hosting her work in an exhibition, “Hajimari”.

Audrey Kawasaki is a Japanese-American artist, born and raised in Los Angeles, where she currently lives and works. Kawasaki’s work contains contrasting themes of innocence and eroticism, conveying the mysterious intrigue of feminine sensuality. Her sharp imagery is painted with precision onto wooden panels, the natural grain adding warmth to her enigmatic subject matter. The artist’s creative influences include eastern as well as western traditions such as Art Nouveau and Japanese Manga comics. She paints sultry, seductive and uninhibited female subjects with delicate beauty and provocative, direct eye contact. Their graceful gestures and ghost-like features carry mysterious expressions of melancholy and longing.”

Check out this flickr gallery for more photos.

Authored by	Wybe
Posted on	Monday, January 11th, 16:16
Archived in	Exhibitions, Illustration
Tags	audrey kawasaki, big apple, come and see, jonathan levine, new york, sexy, usa