Art Collaboration Kyoto 2024

In collaboration with Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery

Booth GC 25

November 1 - 3, 2024

Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka and Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, present a collaborative booth featuring five artists. Three artists from Inoue’s program— Sadamasa Motonaga, Etsuko Nakatsuji, and Toshio Shibata— and two artists from Chris Sharp’s program— Glenn Goldberg and Sean Sullivan.

Loosely playing with questions of the antic, color, linearity, structure and time, the pairings of the artists are striking and complimentary. For example, Toshio Shibata’s black-and-white, long-exposure photos of brutalist water falls find a perfect counterpart in Sean Sullivan’s oil transfer, monochromatic drawings of seemingly abandoned urban spaces. Although the modes are different, the two bodies of work seem to eerily portray similar worlds. Meanwhile, the bright figures of Etsuko Nakatsuji’s paintings and the antic imaginary of Sadama Motonaga’s paintings harmonize with Glenn Goldberg’s exuberant depictions of birds. A likeminded chromatic riotousness seems to animates these various pictorial practices. As such, the booth is bound to buzz and vibrate with a multitude of felicitous and thought-provoking connections.

Glenn Goldberg

Glenn Goldberg (b. 1953, Bronx, NY) lives and works in New York City, NY.

Glenn Goldberg attended the New York Studio School and Queens College during his undergraduate education. He later continued his graduate studies at Queens College to receive his MFA. He has received grants from The Guggenheim Foundation, The Edward Albee Foundation, National Endowment of the Arts, and The Joan Mitchell Foundation. Goldberg’s work has been shown extensively throughout the US and internationally, and is held in numerous collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Academy of Arts and Letters, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, among others. Goldberg has taught at various institutions including The Cooper Union, NY Studio School, Brandeis University, Queens College, Parsons School of Design, and Lodestar School of Art in Ireland. He has also been a panelist and visiting artist for MFA painting programs at Yale, Columbia, Boston University, American University, Hunter College, and numerous others. In 2023, Goldberg was commissioned to create a public mosaic arts project at the E. 149th St subway station in the Bronx by the New York MTA Arts and Design Commission.

Sean Sullivan

Sean Sullivan (b. 1975, Bronx, NY) lives and works in Hudson Valley, NY.

Recent solo exhibitions include Isthmus in formation, Linn Lühn, Düsseldorf, 2024; Excitations (drawings of concern), Et Al., San Francisco, 2023; Faith in Doubt, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, 2023; In the shade of a tree, Devening Projects, Chicago, 2023; and Elegysome, Feuilleton, Los Angeles, 2020.

Recent group exhibitions include Hudson Valley Artists 2024: Bibliography, The Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, 2024; lucent, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen; Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda; Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford; The Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth, 2023; A Minor Constellation, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, 2022; Feelings are Facts, Poker Flats, Williamstown, 2021; Three Painters, The Arts Center at Duck Creek, East Hampton, 2020; Slow and Everywhere Like Breath, Markus Luettgen Gallery, Düsseldorf, 2020; and Solitude, Shrine Gallery, New York, 2020.

Glenn Goldberg, An Other Place (58), 2024. Acrylic and pencil on canvas, 12 x 9 in (30.5 x 22.9 cm)

Glenn Goldberg, An Other Place (57), 2024. Acrylic and pencil on canvas, 12 x 9 in (30.5 x 22.9 cm)

Glenn Goldberg, An Other Place (56), 2024. Acrylic and pencil on canvas, 12 x 9 in (30.5 x 22.9 cm)

Sean Sullivan, Silent City no. 1, 2020-23. Oil stick on found paper, 10 1/4 x 13 3/4 in (26 x 34.9 cm)

Sean Sullivan, Silent City no. 4, 2020-23. Oil stick on found paper, 10 1/4 x 13 3/4 in (26 x 34.9 cm)

Sean Sullivan, Silent City no. 5, 2020-23. Oil stick on found paper, 10 1/4 x 13 3/4 in (26 x 34.9 cm)

Sean Sullivan, Silent City no. 6, 2020-23. Oil stick on found paper, 10 1/4 x 13 3/4 in (26 x 34.9 cm)