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Jacob Hashimoto Exhibitions and Paintings at Saatchi-gallery

Jacob Hashimoto was born on 1973 lives in New York City and Verona. Jacob Hashimoto cuts rice paper into small geometric shapes and glues the shapes to delicate wooden frameworks, which he attaches to black fishing line and ties to long wooden pegs at the top and bottom of his rectangular, wall-mounted, waterfall-like hangings. The pegs are evenly spaced from side to side across the top and bottom of the piece.

The artist ties six roughly overlapping layers of shapes onto each peg, creating a dense, kaleidoscopic multi-level field in which a given shape may be visible or hidden, depending on the angle of view. The hanging seems to move as we walk past. But is it a sculpture or a painting? Where is the figure? Where is the ground?

Hashimoto’s show, titled "skip skitter start trip vault bounce -- and other attempts at flight" opened at Chicago’s Rhona Hoffman Gallery in mid-November, but closed early when everything sold. The show featured one ceiling piece along with seven wall works, constructed of like elements but with varying content.

Slip into Vapor could almost be a landscape. Measuring five feet high and four feet wide by 7.5 inches deep, it is composed of paper ovals, each roughly four inches wide, which are mounted on X-shaped frameworks and suspended between 13 wooden pegs at the top and 13 below. White and blue ovals, suggesting clouds and sky, comprise the upper half of Slip into Vapor, while darker ovals in the lower half could be rocks, soil or vegetation. The artist collages long slices of green paper-like grass onto some ovals and puts fanciful decorative designs on others. As the viewer walks by, these peep out to surprise and amuse.

Face Ache at Ice Cream Social measures eight feet square and employs hexagon shapes with a mad variety of designs. Dark and dense above and light below, this piece seems to sparkle, bubble upward, and move in all three dimensions, but it is never busy because the artist alternates decorated and plain white hexagons, both across the face of the work and in its layers. Hashimoto begins by making wooden frames from tiny sticks, tying them together with thread, and affixing translucent rice paper to them. If he wants color or a design, he collages it onto the paper shape -- nothing is painted. When a framed shape is ready, he dips it in acrylic resin for strength. After creating a large inventory of these elements, he selects shapes of different size and design, and strings them on nylon line, which he employs because it does not stretch. Now he is ready to tie the strings to the pegs. Hashimoto also exhibited Super Abundant Atmosphere II, a ceiling-hung work made of pale forms that suggest billowing clouds. Apparently one of the "attempts at flight" in the show title, this piece brought the sky indoors and almost seemed ready to levitate the gallery.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007

• Mary Boone Gallery, NY

2006

• Studio La Città, Verona

2005

• Superabundant Atmosphere, Rice Gallery, Rice University, Houston

• Skip Skitter Start Trip Vault Bounce – and other attempts at flight, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago

2004

• Bloom, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose

• Altadena, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma

2003

• The Nature of Objects, Studio la Città, Verona

2002

• Studio la Città, Verona

• Silent Rhythm, Galleria Traghetto, Venice

• Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio

2001

• Giant Yellow, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica

• Big Mountain, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica

2000

• Carte Blanche à Hélène de Franchis, Galerie Lucien Durand-Le Gaillard, Paris

• Project Room, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica

• Giant Yellow and Other Structures, Galerie Lucien Durand-Le Gaillard, Paris

1999

• Armada, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago

• Infinite Lightness, Studio la Città, Verona

• Galleria La Nuova Pesa, Rome

1998

• Infinite Expanse of Sky, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

• Project Room, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica

1997

• Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago

1996

• Sky Canopy Installation, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005

• Italian Feeling, XIV Quadriennale di Roma, Galleria Nazionale d’Atre di Roma, Rome

2004

• White, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica

• Artseasons, Cas Pellers, Palma de Mallorca

• Jen ne regrette rien, Studio la Città, Verona

2003

• Structure, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica

2002

• Intermezzo, Studio la Città, Verona

• Officina America - ReteEmiliaRomagna, Palazzo dell’Arengo, Rimini

2001

• Phoenix Triennial, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix

• Conceptual Color: In Albers’ Afterimage, San Francisco State University, San Francisco

2000

• Made in California NOW, Boone Children’s Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art West

1997

• Perennial, Carleton College Boliou Art Gallery, Northfield, Minnesota.

• Headless, William Cordove and Jacob Hashimoto, Lineage Gallery, Chicago

1996

• Thesis Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

• Young Americans of Asian Ancestry, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

Conclusions:

Jacob Hashimoto show, titled "skip skitter start trip vault bounce -- and other attempts at flight" opened at Chicago’s Rhona Hoffman Gallery in mid-November, but closed early when everything sold. The show featured one ceiling piece along with seven wall works, constructed of like elements but with varying content.

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Bought an inexpensive, brand new violin, in the case etc...our daughter went to try it out.....and it won't make a sound. Strings seem intact, tight etc. She applied the rosin/waxy stuff (I know nothing about all this) and still the strings don't make a peep. What are we doing wrong? (besides buying a violin for 25 bucks on Ebay)

First of all, the bow has to be primed. You need to run the full length of the bow over the rosin at least 100 - 150 times, or until the bowhair starts to catch against the rosin.

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If the violin still will not sound after that, take it to a shop. The soundpost may have fallen during shipment anyway (if you look under the F-holes you can see a little wooden dowel, right under the bridge. If you don't, or if the violin rattles, take it to be fixed immediately) and the strings may be old. These instruments get stored, sometimes for years, before they are sold as remainders or case lots and put up for sale at auction.

I think that the bow priming is going to do it for you though. Hold the rosin so it is approximately where the strings would be if you were bowing it properly, and you will get some proper bowing technique in at the same time! Hope this helps.

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