From Audart's Tributes The art I remember best during the Audart Gallery days were the Kenta Furusho sculptures, all set up in a circle in a large room. That was Audart's first exhibition ever. I visited the gallery often just to stand amid Kenta's sculptures of children - they were magical. Carole Newbigging |
Kenta Furusho - New York
Pregnant Form 2000
15x15x12
Fabric Plastic Sheet
Kenta Furusho
was one of
the first artists to exhibit at the Audart Gallery. His
sculptures
created a sensation in Audart's inaugural exhibition "The Urban Frontier", most of them patterned
after the "Baby Boy" icon which Furusho has used repeatedly in his work
to convey messages of freedom and emancipation. He also
participated
in Audart's "TNT" exhibition in the Spring of
1996.
Kenta has experimented in many mediums including painting, lithography, sculpting and in numerous styles including minimalist, representational, narrative, abstract and symbolic. He has exhibited at the Longwood Gallery, Bronx, New York; The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, New York and at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, among many others. He has also received numerous grants and awards and was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. Kenta was born in Kumamoto Japan and his work is included in the permanent research archive at the Asian American Arts Center in New York city. Kenta Furusho Website Share on Facebook |