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Martin Lawrence Galleries Dallas Proudly Presents the Work of World Famous Contemporary Artist Takashi Murakami


Martin Lawrence Galleries

Live event opens with a gallery reception on Saturday, June 22th from 6–8 PM, featuring the iconic themes from the 2018 blockbuster retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Takashi Murakami, known to many around the world as Japan’s Andy Warhol, ensures that each of his magnificent works of art reflects his craft and insightful engagement with popular culture, folklore and pop art style, all mixed with traditional Japanese culture. One of today's most imaginative artists, Murakami is universally recognized for both his fine art and commercial output - including collaborations with hip-hop stars Kanye West and Pharrell Williams, as well as designs for the fashion and beauty industry with Louis Vuitton, Issey Miyake, and Shu Uemura.

MLG's Retro -Retrospective exhibition to be held in the Galleria Dallas, Level 1, 13350 Dallas Parkway, Dallas, TX and will showcase Murakami's colorful paintings and work.

Murakami, born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, was influenced by animated films (anime), comic books (manga), and global branding, and creates and adapts his recognizable characters into a style that he has dubbed “Superflat”-a tribute to the two-dimension style of classic Japanese cartoons. The theory posits that there is a legacy of flat, two-dimensional imagery from Japanese Art history in manga and anime. 

"I am not a political artist; my target is children, I found my market, my sweet spot, Okay, this is my zone – for the kids"-, Takashi Murakami.

Takashi Murakami attended the Tokyo University of Arts where he acquired the drafting skills necessary to become an animator but eventually majored in Nihonga, the 'traditional style of Japanese painting that incorporates conventional artistic conventions, techniques, and subjects. In 1994, Murakami received a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council and spent a year in the PS1 International Studio Program in New York City. During his stay, he was exposed to and highly inspired by Western contemporary artists and the art movement of Simulationism, which engages in a play of relationships between cells, icons and the increasing geometricization of the social space in the world in which we live.

“Murakami’s works are extraordinarily vivid, intricate, and masterfully crafted.  One of my personal favorites, Korin: the time of celebration, features long stem flowers in the foreground that are cold pressed onto the background.  The work pops because each leaf and flower is rich both in color and detail, and infused with an emoji-like expressive face at the center of every flower.  The image’s background is a complex weave of brilliant sections overlapping like torn pieces of paper.  One section is bright gold...look closely, and you can see tiny cartoon skulls, a Murakami signature; another consists of designs that look like underwater kelp. The gestalt of the entire work forces the eye to gently move between each section, forever soothing your soul with color". Don Keenan, Gallery Director

 Murakami works have been exhibited in over 82 museums around the globe including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Society, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow.  Most recently his first retrospective was installed at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada. 

Takashi Murakami is one of the families of superb 20th and 21st century artists, such as Warhol, Haring, Chagall, Picasso and Miróthat MLG proudly offers at their fine art galleries located in nine cities including New York, New Orleans, Maui, La Jolla, Costa Mesa, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, and Las Vegas.

Opening Reception, Saturday, June 22 from 6–8 PM. Exhibition on display through July 12.

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13550 Dallas Parkway · Inside The Galleria, Level I · Dallas, TX 75040


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