Kyoto dye artist Bin Kuroshima at the Midtown Manhattan flagship of Carl Hansen & Søn.
For more than four decades, Bin Kuroshima has painted with dye. Hand-Painted Kyo-Yuzen brings his screens, tapestries, scrolls and panels, colored largely with botanical dyes and sumi ink, into the showroom of the Danish furniture maker: an encounter between two traditions built on natural materials, the hand, and time.
It is Kuroshima’s first exhibition with Carl Hansen & Søn, and he will be in New York for the opening reception on Tuesday, November 10.
The exhibition brings together framed works in botanical dyes, gold yuzen and hanging scrolls with new work: fusuma paintings, paintings on wood, a yuzen kimono panel, and a kimono and haori, along with hand-painted shikishi boards and tote bags.
Bin Kuroshima has worked in Kyo-yuzen, Kyoto’s tradition of hand-painted dyeing, for more than four decades. He is a nationally certified Traditional Craftsman, and in 2007 Kyoto Prefecture named him a Kyo no Meiko, a Master Craftsman of Kyoto.