#bunnies
“The Bunnies Fall”
Digital, 2006
The autumn image in our “Seasons of the Rabbit” series. Dan turned falling autumn leaves into bunnies drifting down over a rushing river. Print available in our web shop. Like “Bunny Blossoms” it is not based on a specific ukiyo-e masterpiece, but captures the feel of a genre of landscape in those Japanese woodblock prints.
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“Bunny Blossom”
digital, 2005
The second image in our “Seasons of the Rabbit” series. This image popped into Dan’s head as a follow up to “Uprisings” once it was apparent that people really liked that image. Unlike “Uprisings” which a very direct homage to a specific work by a specific artist, “Bunny Blossom” was more just evocative of a classic type of Japanese image common in woodblock print, featuring some flowering branches in an interesting composition (often the ukiyo-e masters would include birds on the branches, but Dan decided not do so in this piece). Dan continued the theme of turning one natural element (this time the cherry blossoms) into rabbits.
One thing of note is that this piece was originally made longer for the long sold out archival limited edition print, but in order to make the poster a similar spect ratio to the “Uprisings” poster we cropped the bottom off the image for the poster release (which can be purchased HERE).
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Hey Folks!! We just released a new, very limited (only 30 prints in this edition!), archival print.
“We’re All In This Together”
Maybe we are all losing our shit, but we really are all in this together. Don’t forget that with this hand signed and numbered limited edition of 30 archival gicleé prints on Somerset Watercolor paper. Image size 18 x 24 inches (457 x 610mm) + a white border around for total paper size of 22 x 28 inches.
The original image was an acrylic painting with gold leaf on board.
NOTE: From here on out, we will be pouring any profits from your purchases into restoring the 130 year old house in the Japanese countryside that kozy purchased to make a creative retreat for people to experience the other side of Japan beyond the big city life. So please consider buying a new kozyndan limited edition!
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38 of the 140+ new bunny primitive sculptures Kozy made for her solo show, “Growing Into Roots”, at Giant Robot. The exhibition runs September 8-26th, 2018. Remaining sculptures are available at Giant Robot’s Web Store now!
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Purchase available artworks HERE!
“Growing Into Roots” is the new exhibition by Kozy Kitchens at Giant Robot 2 - GR2 Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. The exhibition will be on viewSeptember 8th, 2018 through September 26th, 2018.
Giant Robot GR2 Gallery
2062 Sawtelle Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 20025
www.giantrobot.com
Kozy is presenting an installation of over 160 new ceramic sculptures, including 140+ new figures in her ongoing “Bunny Primitive” series, as well as glowing crystal sculptures, wind chimes, and sound objects.
From Kozy:
“This summer I had the honor of attending the prestigious residency program at the Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Park in Shiga prefecture, Japan, to further my exploration of ceramics, a medium that I have developed a passion for in the last 6 years. It was a humbling experience to learn traditional techniques and to use the traditional wood fueled kilns, as well as discover that all the local clays and different techniques of glazing and firing employed in my home country for centuries. During my 3 month stay at the residency I chose to make learning about these techniques, about my own cultural heritage, my priority. I continued working with the same ” bunny primitive" forms I had been creating in the US, and found so much joy in discovering these parts of my culture I wasn’t aware of before.
It’s struck me that I had left Japan in 1997 as a teenager, wanting to escape what I thought of as a rigid, staid culture, for the relative excitement and artistic freedom of the USA. I have made a good life here in Los Angeles over the last two decades, and have been fortunate to make a living from my artistic practice, but I have missed my family and thought of this residency as a good excuse to see more of them while I continued to work. What I found, though, was a new appreciation for my own heritage. Maybe it is just a function of having been away so long, or the newly chaotic cultural climate in the US these last few years, or maybe I have just matured enough to appreciate Japanese culture (a culture that, unlike American culture, really reveres, and in many ways is geared toward, older people). Probably it is a combination of all these things, but whatever the case, attending the residency, and creating the works I am presenting in this exhibition, altered my direction in life, and gave me a new understanding of my identity. “
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(viahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miCJK3fKJZE)
“Growing Into Roots” is the new exhibition by Kozy Kitchens opening Saturday, September 8th, 2018 at Giant Robot 2 - GR2 Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. The exhibition will be on view through September 26th, 2018.
Remaining sculptures are now available on Giant Robot’s web store! Click Here to view them.
Giant Robot GR2 Gallery
2062 Sawtelle Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 20025
www.giantrobot.com
(424) 246-7626
Kozy is presenting an installation of over 160 new ceramic sculptures, including 140+ new figures in her ongoing “Bunny Primitive” series.
From Kozy:
“This summer I had the honor of attending the prestigious residency program at the Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Park in Shiga prefecture, Japan, to further my exploration of ceramics, a medium that I have developed a passion for in the last 6 years. It was a humbling experience to learn traditional techniques and to use the traditional wood fueled kilns, as well as discover that all the local clays and different techniques of glazing and firing employed in my home country for centuries. During my 3 month stay at the residency I chose to make learning about these techniques, about my own cultural heritage, my priority. I continued working with the same ” bunny primitive" forms I had been creating in the US, and found so much joy in discovering these parts of my culture I wasn’t aware of before.
It’s struck me that I had left Japan in 1997 as a teenager, wanting to escape what I thought of as a rigid, staid culture, for the relative excitement and artistic freedom of the USA. I have made a good life here in Los Angeles over the last two decades, and have been fortunate to make a living from my artistic practice, but I have missed my family and thought of this residency as a good excuse to see more of them while I continued to work. What I found, though, was a new appreciation for my own heritage. Maybe it is just a function of having been away so long, or the newly chaotic cultural climate in the US these last few years, or maybe I have just matured enough to appreciate Japanese culture (a culture that, unlike American culture, really reveres, and in many ways is geared toward, older people). Probably it is a combination of all these things, but whatever the case, attending the residency, and creating the works I am presenting in this exhibition, altered my direction in life, and gave me a new understanding of my identity. “
A little explosion made in a 48hr film challenge
Release the rabbits!
hey.. um.. you got a little something.. nevermin d
mmyesss pet me mortal
i was trying to take a picture of milo for my mom and the lOOK of disgust milo gave me before looking away from the camera look at his face !!??
important meeting..
i have.. decided.. no more hopping i will walk !!
pondering…. hmmmm…
