{"id":10262,"date":"2023-05-10T11:10:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T15:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10262"},"modified":"2023-05-10T11:07:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T15:07:12","slug":"kelly-akashi-at-tanya-bonakdar-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/10\/kelly-akashi-at-tanya-bonakdar-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Akashi at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tanyabonakdargallery.com\/artists\/26-kelly-akashi\/\">Kelly Akashi\u2019<\/a>s poetic assemblages of sculpture in glass, stone, bronze and rammed earth at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tanyabonakdargallery.com\/exhibitions\/704-kelly-akashi-infinite-body-tanya-bonakdar-gallery-new-york\/\">Tanya Bonakdar Gallery<\/a> heighten awareness of her materials and processes while juxtaposing human concepts of time with comparatively vast measures of time on earth and in the universe. Here, the glass sphere titled \u2018Cosmic Axis,\u2019 brings to mind the axis around which the earth rotates while also alluding to the connection between heavenly and terrestrial realms.\u00a0 Surrounded by photos of distant nebula taken by telescopes, the sculpture feels especially present in the space of the gallery, its delicacy contrasted by a large concrete pedestal and enhanced by cherry blossoms on top that extend into the space of the sphere. (On view in Chelsea through June 10<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2291px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/5e27613d-4b01-3f3c-1f33-d174351ba185.jpg\" width=\"2291\" height=\"2327\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Akashi, Cosmic Axis, Flame-worked borosilicate on rotating cast concrete pedestal, 77 x 22 x 22 inches, 2022-23.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Akashi\u2019s poetic assemblages of sculpture in glass, stone, bronze and rammed earth at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery heighten awareness of her materials and processes while juxtaposing human concepts of time with comparatively vast measures of time on earth and in the universe. Here, the glass sphere titled \u2018Cosmic Axis,\u2019 brings to mind the axis around &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/10\/kelly-akashi-at-tanya-bonakdar-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kelly Akashi at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[8,117,10348,2245,10347,10,121],"class_list":["post-10262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-chelsea","tag-cosmic-axis","tag-glass","tag-kelly-akashi","tag-sculpture","tag-tanya-bonakdar-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2Fw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10263,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262\/revisions\/10263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}