{"id":1426,"date":"2012-06-03T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T17:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2012-06-05T15:04:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T19:04:47","slug":"kenichi-hoshine-james-jean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/03\/kenichi-hoshine-james-jean\/","title":{"rendered":"An Artists’ Dialogue: Kenichi Hoshine & James Jean"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have heard of James Jean<\/a> and Kenichi Hoshine<\/a> already – they are both prolific, well-known, and exceptionally talented artists. James Jean was born in Taiwan and raised in New Jersey. Kenichi Hoshine was born in \u00a0Japan, and also raised in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Jean does a lot of varied work and is known for award-winning work in a variety of modes – illustration for many high-profile clients, his work in comics (cover artist for Fables<\/a> and The Umbrella Academy<\/a>), and his work for fashion clients such as Prada<\/a>\u00a0and Philip Lim<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Swan.

James Jean - Swan. Acrylic, Oil, & Pastel on Linen, 50 x 88", 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

Hoshine, on the other hand, leans more towards fine art exhibitions<\/a>, with dreamlike mixed media work<\/a> mostly in oils, encaustic (wax mixed with paint & pigment) and charcoal.<\/p>\n

\"Untitled,

Kenichi Hoshine - Untitled, oil, Acrylic, acrylic emulsion on wood, 30 x 30 in.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Kenichi

Kenichi Hoshine - Untitled, charcoal, acrylic, and wax on wood, 22 x 22 in.<\/p><\/div>\n

Jean was living in LA and Hoshine in NYC when they started their artists’ dialogue “A Polite Winter” in 2004.\u00a0I know; 2004. The graphic design is sometimes dated, the freshness is now a museum piece. Well, not quite. This is such a great back-and-forth that it bears revisiting & holds up under scrutiny – there is playfulness and virtuoso skill in this exchange that is more than relevant today.<\/p>\n

There’s something about an artists’ dialogue that is intriguing in of itself, whether collective work, collaborative work, or even the simple cadavre exquis<\/a> approach. The sensibilities and approaches of each artist play off of one anothers’ imagery and concepts, \u00a0creating a richness fraught with implied narrative, with lots of subtle inter-referential elements that may or may not be apparent to the casual viewer. The speed with which these dialogues unfold is also an interesting element – unlike a personal project that can develop slowly and be worked on and reworked for months or even years, for a dialogue to not simply fizzle out, the artists need to produce their responses more quickly, so there’s a freshness and immediacy that is an essential aspect of the work.<\/p>\n

Without any further blah blah blah, I direct you to the dialogue: A Polite Winter<\/a>. \u00a0I am including only a small selection below as you really must visit the site to see the work in its “native” context. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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You may have heard of James Jean and Kenichi Hoshine already – they are both prolific, well-known, and exceptionally talented artists. James Jean was born in Taiwan and raised in New Jersey. Kenichi Hoshine was born in \u00a0Japan, and also…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,116,129],"tags":[117,120,252,251,126,127],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing","category-illustrators","category-painters","tag-illustration","tag-illustrator","tag-james-jean","tag-kenichi-hoshine","tag-painter","tag-painting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JDlZ-n0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}