“rain after smile”
Ryoko Kido

2012.11.17 sat − 12.15 sat / 12pm − 7pm
Opening Reception on Saturday 17th November , 6pm − 8pm

『雲梯 / overhead ladder』2012
tempera, oil color, canvas, panel　M10 (530 x 330mm)

『たかおに / TAKAONI』2012
tempera, oil color, canvas, panel　455 x 273mm

Copyright (c) 2012 Ryoko Kido All rights reserved.

   KIDO Press is pleased to announce an exhibition titled "rain after smile" by Ryoko Kido.

　Like the changing weather, one day follows another in a repetitive sequence that need not, however, be monotonous.  Underlying the everyday are many things of precious value that are apt to be forgotten.
"Smile after Rain", the title of this exhibition, hints at the artist's quiet yet earnest conviction that, as they accumulate, even ordinary days when not everything goes our way gradually lead us to a better tomorrow.

　Working mainly in tempera and oil paints, Ryoko Kido portrays delicate flowers, soft breezes, and warm smiles in light and fresh tones.  Human figures freely frolic over heaven and earth like souls that have slipped out of their host bodies.

　Viewers will have the impression that the scenes depicted and the zero-gravity sensation have been encountered before, exactly like deja vu slices of their dreams.  The paintings are at the same time suffused with a nebulous feeling of reassurance that lends them a magical appeal.

　She brought all of her rich sensibility to bear in going slowly back over each image in her mind and then carefully and lovingly rendering it.  Born from the assemblage of these fragments, the works are bound to resonate in the souls of their beholders with a pleasant timbre.  The Artist offered that this may be due to a kind of compassion which strikes a responsive chord in anyone's heart.

<Biography>
Ryoko Kido

1958　Born in Fukuoka
1982　Graduated from Musashino Art University, Depertment of painting. Awarded The Best Student Prize
1984　Graduated from Musashino Art University of Graduate School, Fine Art Course
1986　New York University in NY1986〜1893　Lived in NY
Lives and works in Tokyo

-Solo Exhibition
2010　Exhibition in Yatsugatake Lodge Atelier,  Sponsored by　Nakamura Keith Haring Collection
2009　Nabisu Gallery ,Tokyo
2008　Gallery Face to Face, Kichijyoji
2007　Nabisu Gallery,Tokyo
2003　Ono Gallery,Tokyo

- Group exhibitions
2010　Five Artiest Exhibition, Gallery Face to Face, Kichijyoji
　　 　 Tasting Art 10, Hankyu department store, Osaka
     　 Christmas Exhibition,  Kido Press, Inc., Tokyo
2004　Exhibition of Small works,  Ono Gallery, Tokyo 　
2002　The Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo　　etc.