Allouche Gallery is pleased to present Million Eyes, a solo exhibition of new paintings by acclaimed Japanese artist Teiji Hayama, on view at the gallery’s 77 Mercer Street location in SoHo. This is Hayama’s debut solo exhibition with Allouche Gallery. The gallery will host an opening reception on Thursday, January 16th from 6-8 PM.
Teiji Hayama’s subjects are key in his practice: pop icons like Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Twiggy are blurred, layered and distorted in uncanny ways. Hayama’s process mirrors the concepts of his portraits; he first renders the portrait digitally allowing him to manipulate the image to his desire, after which he paints it onto canvas. Through this overproduction of icons layered on top of each other, Hayama invokes a larger social condition at play: the technologies that seemingly represent us actually limit our potential to meaningfully connect with others.
