Surface and Signal
Exhibition Dates. 28 June - 02 Aug 2025
at Blum Gallery
Tokyo, Japan
SURFACE AND SIGNAL
Group Exhibition
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BLUM is pleased to present Surface and Signal, a group exhibition of work by
Kazunori Hamana @kazunorihamana
Akane Saijo @saijoakane
Peter Shear @petershear
Yuji Ueda @yuji____ueda
Surface and Signal brings together four artists whose practices engage with formal clarity, material honesty, and sensitivity to the boundaries between intention and chance. The exhibition foregrounds how each artist operates within the inherent structure of their chosen medium—painting and ceramics, respectively—while maintaining a looseness that allows for vulnerability, gesture, and quiet radicalism.
Reiterating the poetic tendencies of his practice, Shear’s paintings in Surface and Signal are pithy bursts of evocative gestures rooted in wide-reaching, visual reference to moments in culture and art history. With brushstrokes that both emphasize the artist’s hand and physical qualities of his paint, the expressive gestures in Shear’s works, such as Current (2025), call out to the materiality and intricate glazing of ceramics by Kazunori Hamana, Akane Saijo, and Yuji Ueda.
Photographed by Nani P - post via instagram @nani.visit
