Gallery DECO BOKO

Born in Fukuoka and raised in Tokyo. artist Chihiro Kabata is currently active based in Tokyo. Kabata uses her fingers and hands. or ballpoint pens as extensions of her body which were first chosen as substitutes to brushes.

While studying architecture in college, rather than thinking about versatility and convenience, Yusuke has always been more interested in the effect of architecture that changes the landscape. Since then, Yusuke has been creating three-dimensional artwork that transforms the landscape, based on his architectural background which offers a special experience which ultimately becomes a special “place” for the viewers.

Yuki M Ledbetter is a creative producer and photographer
from Hokkaido, Japan, currently living in Brooklyn, New
York. She self-taught and started photography while she was at
university in Minnesota with her friend’s DSLR camera.
Her work is often in the reflection of “Wabi-sabi (侘び寂び)”, and she finds beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness. She is also influenced by a great visual storyteller, Roy DeCarava.

Yukino has been creating art using round stickers that are easily accessible at stationery stores, expressing nightscapes which won the Tokyo Midtown Awards while still attending University. Since then, Yukino has been active globally and has been collaborating with various artists and projects.

Atsushi Adachi mainly uses newspapers and magazines as materials, and creates the theme of recording memories using print as a medium.
Adachi believes that the things that exist in this world has some kind of influence from the past, which he reflects on his pieces as “engraved memories”.

Yumi Kimura is an illustrator / artist from Hiroshima, Japan, who also works for Japanese magazines and in the advertising field.
Her works are known for stylish abstract and simple, cute illustrations.
While Yumi communicates with clients digitally, many of her works uses analogue materials and creates textures carefully.
As an artist, watercolors and oil pastels are being used as well as mixing them with digital techniques.
Yumi is constantly exploring ways to combine well made analogue art materials and digital materials to expand the possibilities of her artwork.

Johnna Slaby is an abstract artist born and raised in Japan. 

Utilizing various materials from acrylics to coffee, she creates abstract pieces that are reminiscent of a late-afternoon coffee or the golden hour near a river. 

Through the experiences and stories that she comes across during her travels and life, she works them into pieces to create memories people can see. 

From her large canvas pieces to her intimate paper studies, she dissects both mundane and profound moments of life, continuing to ask, What does it mean to be alive? 

“My main sources of inspiration are abstract expressionism, merged with prehistoric and ancient clay figurines, calligraphy. By using contemporary materials, reflecting culture presented in our diverse and modernized environment, I wish to continue the legacy of human’s imagination and connection to the ultimate space of life. Each artwork is intuitively free- formed, and hand built, while I focus on the extension of lines and harmony of the form, similar to the practice of Japanese calligraphy. Complex or simple, I find every form reflects a character I came across in my life in Japan, Ohio, NYC, and elsewhere. While my art forms are sculptural and abstract, I wish the audience to find them as familiar as a flower vase – a form of earth that’s carrying life and energy, freely given from nature.”

Miyuki Akiyama was born in 1980 in Okayama, Japan. She began her studies at BFA at The oil painting Musashino Art University where she also earned an MFA. and studied abroad for two years from 2008 at Experimental Art Course, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing as a research student. She conducted research on the transmission of Asian culture. Since 2018 She has been based in New York City.

She works mainly in oil on canvas and drawing on paper. In her recent work, she has made drawings and paintings based on traces from around town.

Those works are small works of daily life and layers of images. The routines and dialogues of daily life and production allow me to feel the surprise of paint bouncing around on the canvas, of mountains and oceans appearing with a stroke of the brush.

Taro Yaguchi is a Philadelphia-based origami artist and designer. Since 2011 he has been on the forefront of helping promote paper-folding when he created his own teaching method for origami and founded Taro’s Origami Studio. Today the studio is one of the premier places on the internet to learn origami.Taro’s orgiami aesthetic focuses on life-like animals and everyday objects and has been exhibited across the country.As a businessman Taro has also worked tirelessly to find ways to bring authentic Japanese-made paper to the rest of the world. His store is now one of the largest places to find quality origami paper and books.