This small collection will be followed by a larger exhibition of works that runs December 4th , 2027 – January 2nd, 2028. Therefore, if you do not have the chance to speak for one of these paintings this time, please know there will be more shared with you next year.
Inquiry Instructions:
Please note that all paintings are sold on a first come, first serve basis. Upon being invoiced, payment is due within one hour upon receipt. If payment is not made, we will move on to the next collection in line and the sale will be canceled. Therefore, please share your top choices in order, so we can best accommodate you.
At this time, we do not have framed photos and the paintings are en route.
Please feel free to email at info@havengallery.com or call me at 631-757-0500 with any questions. After hours, I can be reached on my cell at 516-807-4076.
As always, payment plans are available and all artwork paid for in full will ship one week from the exhibition’s end.
To speak for any of these works, please feel free to reach out by email (info@havengallery.com), our website or phone (631-757-0500).
Enjoy the exhibition. They are incredible!
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ABOUT SHIORI MATSUMOTO
I was born in the Kagawa-prefecture of Japan in 1973. I studied oil painting in The Kyoto Saga University of Arts. The paintings which I am going to express are dreamlike, melancholy and cryptic atmospheres with girls who play with imagination and try to change the world with their own ritual. “Here are children as fables, suspended in time, their breath still warm in their throats, the world around each figure a dream of perfect context, full of mystery and exquisite symbolic and surreal detail. The artist’s extensive and complex treatise on the life of girls is as constant in its solemn weight as it is in its relentless seduction of the eye. These children are deep and aware. They are in every instance involved in a deep, two-way conversation with all that surrounds them. Their fragile beauty is sometimes infused with resolve, and other times with an air of weary resignation. But in both cases one is sure that they somehow know that they themselves are the greatest mystery, that they will persevere and carry forward. While Shiori Matsumoto’s moving and lovely paintings pay an affectionate homage to European surrealist and symbolic painters they only begin with this influence. The work floats further into a realm of subtle and nuanced sadness that has all the compelling pathos of sakura no saishū-bi. To my eye this transporting effect is somehow profoundly, beautifully and uniquely Japanese.” Jock Sturges Seattle 2014
I was born in the Kagawa-prefecture of Japan in 1973. I studied oil painting in The Kyoto Saga University of Arts. The paintings which I am going to express are dreamlike, melancholy and cryptic atmospheres with girls who play with imagination and try to change the world with their own ritual. “Here are children as fables, suspended in time, their breath still warm in their throats, the world around each figure a dream of perfect context, full of mystery and exquisite symbolic and surreal detail. The artist’s extensive and complex treatise on the life of girls is as constant in its solemn weight as it is in its relentless seduction of the eye. These children are deep and aware. They are in every instance involved in a deep, two-way conversation with all that surrounds them. Their fragile beauty is sometimes infused with resolve, and other times with an air of weary resignation. But in both cases one is sure that they somehow know that they themselves are the greatest mystery, that they will persevere and carry forward. While Shiori Matsumoto’s moving and lovely paintings pay an affectionate homage to European surrealist and symbolic painters they only begin with this influence. The work floats further into a realm of subtle and nuanced sadness that has all the compelling pathos of sakura no saishū-bi. To my eye this transporting effect is somehow profoundly, beautifully and uniquely Japanese.” Jock Sturges Seattle 2014
