Bay Area artist, Takeshi Nakayoshi, native of Osaka, Japan will be displaying his paintings at the Solano Fine Art Gallery. His work suggests Japanese sensitivities in the western manner of abstract painting in which he worked for the last thirty years. Graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute with a Master of Fine Arts, his sole aim has been to cultivate his own original vision. He was part of a three artist show at the Oakland Museum.
B. Stevens Strauss, Chicago native, has exhibited widely in the Bay area. She is a member of ACGA and PacRim. Her interests in the traditional Japanese arts which include tea ceremony(Omotesenke), ikebana (Sogetsu) and calligraphy have strongly influenced her sculptural work. Her solo exhibition at the Japanese Consulate last spring was held over at the request of Director and Consul Yamamitsu.