Soho Gallery Opening Festivities!

YAHHH!!!! Shiv's 1st Gallery exhibition. It was held at The newly opened SoHo Art Gallery in Osaka. He was one of 24 artists (western and Japanese) to have their work displayed at the gallery. It was an awesome night, lots of people showed up, and most importantly there was lots of food and drinks. The theme was "Art Salad", wich im sure has some thing to do with many different tasty parts coming together to create a scumptious whole. As well, there was a big salad to eat.

Shivs work consisted of 10 photos, half from canada and half from his time in japan. One of the photos had to be displayed separately because it was taken at a Hanshin Tigers game. Baseball fans are dead serious here, and the photo was alittle controversial because it may of offended non-hanshin fans.

His work was super popular with gallery visitors, and so many nice things were said about him, and his art. Im one proud wifey!
A few other Nova staff contributed their art work for the show, Dom-3 videos, Clint-photos, Laura-photos... and many more.

The japanese artists also submitted art work, all really intricate and precises, very pretty, and visualy appealing. some peices seemed alittle out of date, but i think that is the style out here. Great show, the gallery looks great, and it is a very new concept for Osaka Galleries. Celio, A Nova trainer, and his wife Goldie, own and designed the cafe. They are both artists and wanted to create an space where japanese and foreign artists could come together and learn/share and display their work. Usually galleries out here are a tad stuffy, you go in look at the work, drink your tea and ponder. But this gallery is open concept, on 3 floors, has a cafe on the main floor and multimedia, teaching and artist residence spaces.

Here are some photos from the event. enjoy!
more photos can be seen on shivs site www.pbase.com/shivdesilva