Here are some photos from the show taken by Andrew, the owner of Good Citizen Gallery.  Thank you, Andrew and Amanda, for the opportunity and support!

Bunny Buttons

Four Seasosn

One Ordinary Day of an Ordinary town

http://www.sacurrent.com/arts/story.asp?id=71227

Thank you, Ben, for detail observation of the show!

Dallas Morning News

– Press release from Dallas Morning News –

“Four Seasons”

Mimi Kato sees art as “one-person theater.”  She’s the actor, performing the roles of each character; the choreographer, orchestrating the movements and poses of the characters; the costume designer, hand-sewing the outfits; and above al, she says the director, orchestrating the pieces of her production within the two-dimensional space of color prints.  Kato’s new show at Conduit Gallery, “Four Seasons,” which consists of four large, very theatrical photographs, illustrates all of that and more.  She completed these works during her residency at the Roswell Artist-in-Residence program in Roswell, n, N.M.  A native of Japan, Kato has lived in the U.S. since 1998.  – Michael Granberry

"Four Seasons" at Conduit Gallery

I haven’t shown in Dallas since 2005 and was surprised to see the cool new art district in downtown.   New Opera House just opened and architecture is simply beautiful.  It is done by Foster + Partners in London who also did Reichstag in Berlin, my favorite architecture.

I had incredible time in Dallas.  I hope I can go back again soon.  Thank you, Danette and Nancy at Conduit!

I was in Japan, in St. Louis, and  in San Antonio, and now I am in Albion Michigan.  A lot of moving and that will continue after December, but we got some time to settle.  Jimmy and I are accepted as visiting artists at Albion College for 2009 fall semester.   We got here about 3 weeks ago, moved, set up studios and we are good to go.

We are also in “World biggest Art Prize” in Grand Rapid, Michigan called “ArtPrize”.   Whole city of Grand Rapids are now turned into a huge art museum.  All venues opened yesterday (9/23) and we have met so many new artists + some artists we have already known for years.

My piece is installed on south side window of Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM).  It is the same, but different version of piece which I did in Artpace San Antoino.

GRAM window installation

The piece will be up till October 10th.  If you are happen to be in Grand Rapids in very strange coincidence, please come check it out.

Installing "one afternoon"

The material was much easier to work than I imagined. The film I used was frosted window films which were common for window displays. In order to install, you have to peel the backing from the film to expose the sticky side, spray soapy water both on films and window, put the film on the window, move around the film to position on the window and squeeze water with squeegee.

"One Afternoon" installed on windows

I am very happy with the result. If you are interested in, please come by to Artpace. It will be up until September 20th.

It was a three person show with Minako Inaoka, Japanese artist from San Fransico, Alyson Fox from Austin Texas and myself, and  it had a theme through the entire show which was bluring the line between reality and fiction.   The works from three artists were all mixed in the space, and it was a very nice installations of works.

I also had a chance to catch up old friends from UTSA, George Zupp and Derrick Durham.

Chicken George and Derrick Durham

Also George Krause stopped by. It was very nice catching up with everyone. Thank you, Texas State, for good time.