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SEIZAN Gallery New York is pleased to announce Unconscious River, a solo exhibition of work by Japanese painter Toshiyuki Kajioka. The Project Space of our newly opened gallery on West 26th, offers an intimate setting for the exhibition of five recent works, including “Yoru no Kawa/ Unconscious River,” completed this year.

From a distance, Kajioka’s monolithic paintings appear to be flat black rectangles. Up close, the viewer finds meticulously detailed brushwork of sumi ink and graphite pencil. Labor intensive strokes of graphite subtly reflect lighting. The artist states the image is a …