Juxtapoz Magazine – Hirosuke Yabe’s “Rhapsody” in Wood @ Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles

[ad_1] Richard Heller Gallery is pleased to present Hirosuke Yabe: Rhapsody. This is Yabe’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Based in Kanagawa Japan, Hirosuke Yabe creates wooden sculptures using a nata, a Japanese hatchet. With quick, short chops, Yabe conjures a menagerie of human expressions. Like Enkū, the Japanese Buddhist sculptor who carved 120,000 statutes, although some pieces reflect […]