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Pure Beauty Presents
FIVE FINGER DISCOUNT
Join us this Saturday, September 18th, 6pm to 9pm for a new product launch entitled FIVE FINGER DISCOUNT. Featuring work by Yu Su, Purity Wine, Sterling Ruby, Sneeze Magazine and Hassan Rahim.
The launch will also feature photography by Hugo Yu and Wenjun Liang along with Shawn Michael Jones as well as sculptures made by Steven Joyner & Jason Pilarski
All proceeds from the Five Finger Discount will be donated to the Dream Corps Federal Prison Closure Campaign:
The Dream Corps JUSTICE Federal Prison Closure Campaign will be the largest prison closure campaign in US history. This bold and transformative campaign will organize people directly impacted by the federal prison system, push for federal policy changes, and call for the creation of a commission to formalize federal prison closures, while elevating the national conversation around reform of the federal criminal legal system and building public support for increased focus on rehabilitation and redemption.Donations in partnership with Kiva Sales and Service
In conjunction with the FIVE FINGER DISCOUNT launch, we are also pleased to present limited edition Pure Beauty Bongs created by Jochen Holz. Each bong is one of a kind and will be available for purchase at the opening. Jochen Holz is a glass artist whose innovative employment of lampworking, a form of glassblowing used primarily to make scientific equipment, is repurposing the technique in the design and art world.
Photographed by Jess Bonham and Gemma Tickle
Please rsvp below:
RSVP@PUREBEAUTYPUREBEAUTY.COViewing Hours:
Opening Night: Saturday from 6pm to 9pm
Sunday from 12pm to 4pmFace mask and proof of vaccination REQUIRED for entry indoors. Must be 21+
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Past Exhibitions
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Kimiyo Mishima
Paintings May 18 - July 14, 2018 Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present the first Los Angeles solo exhibition of paintings by Kimiyo Mishima, a contemporary Japanese artist. Born in Osaka in 1932, Mishima was a child during... -
Shomei Tomatsu
Plastics May 18 - July 14, 2018 Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present the first Los Angeles solo exhibition of photographs by Shomei Tomatsu. Born in Nagoya in 1930, Tomatsu was a teenager during WWII. Ignoring the air-raid... -
Kazuo Kadonaga
Wood / Paper / Bamboo / Glass July 21 - September 8, 2018 Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present sculpture by Kazuo Kadonaga, produced in the materials wood, paper, bamboo and glass, between the years 1977 & 1999. Kadonaga, who descends from a forestry... -
Kentaro Kawabata
September 22 - November 10, 2018 Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Japanese artist Kentaro Kawabata. The exhibition of thirteen works, all produced in porcelain, are from four ongoing series. Six works titled... -
Kansuke Yamamoto
September 22 - November 10, 2018 Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by Kansuke Yamamoto from September 22 to November 10, 2018. Kansuke Yamamoto, a Surrealist poet and photographer, was born in... -
Toshio Matsumoto
November 17 - December 22, 2018 Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by Toshio Matsumoto from November 17 – December 22, 2018. Matsumoto Toshio (born 1932) is a Japanese film director and... -
Tadaaki Kuwayama
January 12 - February 16, 2019 Nonaka-Hill is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by New York based artist, Tadaaki Kuwayama. The exhibition will be his first on the West Coast. Ideas, thoughts, philosophy, reasons, meanings,... -
Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s
Curated by Mika Yoshitake in conjunction with Blum & Poe, Los Angeles February 17 - April 6, 2019 Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles February 17–April 6, 2019; Public opening: Sunday, February 17, 3-6pm Blum & Poe, Los Angeles Part I: February 14-March 23, 2019; Public opening: Thursday, February 14, 6-8pm... -
Naotaka Hiro
April 13 - May 25, 2019 Naotaka Hiro’s practice is rooted in the unknown, exploring the body – specifically his own – in an attempt to better understand our physical form. His artworks cannot be defined... -
Wataru Tominaga
April 13 - May 25, 2019 A fashion and textile designer, also trained in fine art, Wataru Tominaga builds his distinctive textiles atop readymade fabrics which have universal, genderless motifs; paisleys, florals, plaids and ginghams. The... -
Miho Dohi
April 13 - May 25, 2019 Miho Dohi manipulates familiar basic materials, including fabric, yarn, papier-mâché, and wood, along with metals such as brass, copper and wire, to form new components to be assembled into sculpture.... -
Kunié Sugiura
June 1 - July 20, 2019 Kunié Sugiura (Born 1942, Nagoya, Japan. Lives and works in New York, NY) In a practice spanning over fifty years, Kunié Sugiura has negotiated between painting and photography, discovering and... -
Masaomi Yasunaga
June 1 - July 20, 2019 Masaomi Yasunaga (Born 1982, Osaka Japan. Living and working in Iga, Mie Prefecture, Japan) In a gesture which has little precedence, Masaomi Yasunaga removed clay from his ceramic forms, and... -
Takuro Tamayama & Tiger Tateishi
July 27 - August 31, 2019 Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present a two-artist exhibition, Takuro Tamayama and Tiger Tateishi . The show features a new installation, video and sculpture works by Takuro Tamayama, brought together with... -
Yutaka Matsuzawa
Co-curated by Alan Longino and Reiko Tomii Originated by Yale Union, Portland, Oregon September 7 - October 5, 2019 Nonaka-Hill is pleased to host an exhibition by Yutaka Matsuzawa (b. 1922; d. 2006, Shimo Suwa, Japan). Known as one of the leading Conceptual artists in Japan, Matsuzawa has been... -
Yutaka Matsuzawa through the lens of Mitsutoshi Hanaga
September 7 - October 5, 2019 Nonaka-Hill have organized Yutaka Matsuzawa through the lens of Mitsutoshi Hanaga, a small presentation of the photographer who documented the avant-garde in 1960s Japan, underground and youth culture, and such... -
Eikoh Hosoe
Collaborations with Tatsumi Hijikata October 12 - November 30, 2019 The celebrated photographer, Eikoh Hosoe (1933) was a long-time friend and collaborator of Tatsumi Hijikata, having first met in 1959 at Hijikata’s debut Ankoku Butoh performance, Forbidden Colors (Kinjiki), based... -
Tatsumi Hijikata
October 12 - November 30, 2019 Tatsumi Hijikata was the founder of Ankoku Butoh (literally meaning, dance of darkness), widely known and practiced today, some 60 years later, as Butoh. Hijikata arrived to Tokyo from the... -
A show about an architectural monograph
The Work of Kisho Kurokawa Capsule, Metabolism, Spaceframe, Metamorphose December 7, 2019 - January 25, 2020 A show about an architectural monograph: The Work of Kisho Kurokawa subtitled: Capsule, Metabolism, Spaceframe, Metamorphose published by: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, LTD in the year: 1970 designed by: Kiyoshi Awazu with... -
Keita Matsunaga
December 7, 2019 - January 25, 2020 Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present new ceramic works by Japanese artist Keita Matsunaga in his first solo exhibition in the United States. The exhibition is on view through January 25th,... -
Sofu Teshigahara
February 8 - April 11, 2020 Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by Sofu Teshigahara (1900-1979). The artist’s first exhibition in Los Angeles introduces a selection of rarely seen metal sculptures and... -
Kaz Oshiro
96375 July 11 - September 5, 2020 Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present “Kaz Oshiro: 96375”, featuring selected works from 2003 to 2020. Los Angeles based artist, Kaz Oshiro, was born and raised in Okinawa, Japan. Immersed in... -
Sterling Ruby and Masaomi Yasunaga
September 19 - October 31, 2020 Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present Sterling Ruby and Masaomi Yasunaga, bringing together two of the most innovative makers in ceramics today. The exhibition finds parallels between two studio practices developed... -
Megumi Shinozaki
PAPER EDEN November 14 - December 23, 2020 Born 1981, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan Founder of Edenworks, Tokyo, 2009 to present Lives & works in Tokyo Exploring the wide-ranging potentials of flowers and plants, Shinozaki often combines natural elements... -
Hosai Matsubayashi XVI & Trevor Shimizu
November 14, 2020 - January 30, 2021 Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present a two-artist exhibition, Hosai Matsubayashi XVI and Trevor Shimizu. The exhibition brings tea ceremony ceramics produced by Matsubayashi at his Asahi-yaki (Asahi Pottery) kiln in... -
Ulala Imai
AMAZING February 6 - April 3, 2021 Nonaka Hill is pleased to present AMAZING, a selection of recent paintings by Japanese artist Ulala Imai in her first solo exhibition in the United States. Bananas don’t really go... -
Busy Work at Home
April 10 - May 29, 2021 Busy Work at Home A group show from a mid-pandemic point of view; a sentimental journey for multitaskers and “A Celebration of Specialness”. includes work by: BLESS, David Byrne, Aki... -
Takashi Homma
mushrooms from the forest June 5 - July 17, 2021 Appointment Nonaka-Hill is honored to present Takashi Homma: mushrooms from the forest, the first Los Angeles solo exhibition of works by the Japanese artist. The exhibition of thirtythree photographs... -
Natsuyasumi
In the Beginning Was Love July 28 - September 11, 2021 Nonaka-Hill is honored to present Natsuyasumi: In the Beginning Was Love. A group exhibition with the ideals of Summer Vacation as it’s muse. Presenting works by eleven contemporary artists working...
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