Opening Reception: Saturday, June 7th, 6-8pm
Haven Gallery is honored to present Japan based artist, Yoko d’Holbachie, for her fourth solo show, “ROOM No. ME” at Haven Gallery. “New Works” focuses on the art of the narrative as influenced by mythologies and dreams, painted stylistically in d’Holbachie’s technicolor palette. A parade of magic, hue and imagination delightfully fill up each composition, creating a visual feast of females from folklore surrounded by maximalist details and winsome familiars. d’Holbachie’s paintings are a tour de force of imaginative splendor and artistic stylization posthumously preserving and interpreting timeless tales.
This poetic choice of language caught my attention, and the thought—“Does the heart really have two rooms?”—became the seed of inspiration for this exhibition.The moment a door is closed, a room ceases to be just a physical space.
A room becomes a secret vessel, a casket of memories, and at times, a mirror of the soul.
The stains left on the wall, the quietly framed photographs, the silent stuffed animals—
each one forms part of an invisible map of the self.
A room can be a place of refuge, offering comfort and solitude.
But it can also become a kind of gentle prison,
a closed world where we are left alone to confront our most honest, unseen selves.
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Yoko d’Holbachie was born in 1971 in Yokohama, Japan, and studied design and art at Tama Art University in Tokyo. She has worked for almost 10 years as a freelance designer for advertisements, books and magazines, as well as doing design for entertainment and video games. She began to show artwork in the US in 2008. She has lived in Yokohama but also teaches art in Tokyo a few days a week. Her preference is a parrot, a cuttlefish, a slime mold, white wine and static electricity.
