The Gallery at the Marmara - Manhattan is pleased to welcome the Japanese artist Yuriko Hirose in her first New York Show. All living things radiate an energy or vital life force known by many names in the various cultures. In Sanskrit, it’s known as Prana, in Hebrew it’s known as Ruach, it’s known as Chi in China and Ki in Japan. Ki is the Life Force that affects all living things, including the planets and stars. When this energy departs, life itself departs. Ki – Energy is the starting point for Yuriko Hirose’s artwork. Her contemporary, monumental size sculptures, two dimensional art works and paintings tries to transform this energy that emanate from sounds, colors and ambient light to integrate the futuristic, disturbing diversity of the modern urban setting with natural basic human needs. She creates a unique, universal, challenging vision between the abstract and the natural, the sophisticated and the primitive. The result is purposely-mismatched style that helps people to recollect the forgotten memories in the face of the future. Art Historian Carol Lutfy wrote the following in the magazine ART news. “In a society that reveres age, a young Japanese generation has jump-started the Japanese art scene, broadening its base and taking it into the international mainstream.” Jean McKig continues in the same magazine with different article “ Yuriko Hirose is a member of this group and a major force among Japanese woman artists who is modernist and a major figure in theoretical evolution of the Japanese abstract movement” She has a bold and unusual flair for color and texture. She does not restrict herself to a particular medium, masterly mixing wood, canvas, metal and resin. She creates joyful space where people can touch artwork. Yuriko Hirose grew up in Japan and won numerous awards throughout her career. All you need to do is come and see the artwork and simply relax, breath and enjoy the healing like one of the Reiki session.