OPENING RECEPTION
Tuesday, December 3, 6-10pm (invitation only)
PUBLIC DAYS
Wednesday, December 4, 12 – 6pm
Thursday, December 5, 12 – 6pm
Friday, December 6, 12 – 6pm
Saturday, December 7, 12 – 4pm
PATRON and 56 HENRY are proud to announce Original Studies, a collaborative pop-up exhibition by Chicago-based artist Mika Horibuchi. Hosted in a private residence in Miami Beach, the exhibition is organized to coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach and NADA Miami. Recently featured as one of CULTURED Magazine’s Young Artists 2024, Horibuchi’s critical interrogation of artistic media, authorship, and value emerges from what she calls a “spiral of mimesis” which extends from paintings to installations, interiors, and environments.
Original Studies temporarily co-opts the residence into a fictional art collection, partially obfuscated behind diaphanous curtains. The exhibition features a series of new works by Horibuchi which showcase a combination of trompe l’oeil techniques to delicately render flowers and landscapes, originally painted in watercolor by the artist’s grandmother, Sayoko Yokoyama, who lives in the Hiroshima prefecture of Japan. Taking the distinction between original and reproduction one step further, the exhibition includes recent examples of the artist’s Watercolors, alongside fictional “studies” and “preparatory sketches” of these paintings. Horibuchi relies on these “support materials” to perform as artifacts of implied historical significance, reinforcing the authenticity and importance of the originals and reference the practice of learning through imitation. “How” Horibuchi asks, “do we construct, and how are we constructed by visual culture? How do objects gain and lose meaning”?
Mika Horibuchi received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. In 2014, she co-founded 4th Ward Project Space in Chicago. Recent solo exhibitions of her work took place at PATRON Gallery, Chicago (2023); Bortolami, New York (2022); The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago (2020); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2018); LVL3, Chicago (2016). She has participated in many group exhibitions, including at Efraín López, New York (2023), The Driehaus Museum, Chicago (2021), Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago (2018), Salón ACME, Mexico City (2018), and Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles (2016), among many others.