Statement

Travel Agency Garden is a garden project to invite people to embark on "another form of travel" by designing a fictitious garden with paintings.
Abstract paintings form the garden with the aid of familiar titles of places in cities.
The gap between the title and what is depicted on canvas leads the viewer to the question of what he or she knows about the place.
This process allows the viewer to move between his or her idea about the title and what he or she is looking at.
I believe the viewer's new experience evokes conversation between the viewer and my art.

All new work is acrylic on canvas 9" x 11"(22.86cm x 27.94cm) or 11" x 9".

Toru Hayashi is a graduate of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. He has exhibited his work at the Bronx Museum Artist in the Marketplace exhibition. Since his exhibition at Momenta he has exhibited his work and performed at Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, First Look, Down-town Arts Festival, NYC, and TAKA, NYC.

Toru lives at 35 Claver Pl., #13 Brooklyn, NY 11238

Telephone: (718)783-5272

Email: toyamn@earthlink.net