Join us as we celebrate the opening of Tomoyuki Ueno's exhibition Like the Flowing River, featuring a conversation between Ueno and curator Amanda Krugliak. Light refreshments will be served.

About the exhibition: Artist Tomoyuki Ueno creates individual works and installations where nature appears to be in an endless conversation with form, one echoing the other, a repetition. They are a combination of certainty and ephemerality, as if hinged between living and loss. The specificity of Ueno’s sculptural works reads like poetry. Ueno’s installation offers visitors time away, for contemplation, to draw inward, to come inside, to ask the question, “How are art and the everyday intertwined?” Honoring the Buddhist philosophy of impermanence, one becomes a continuation of the other. The artist intends the space to offer a restorative and meditative experience.

This exhibition includes artworks created from natural materials foraged by the artist while in artist residency in Ann Arbor.

The title refers to the opening line of Hōjōki, written by 13th-century Japanese Buddhist monk Kamo no Chōmei: "The flow of the river is ceaseless, and the water is never the same…"