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Newspaper Page Textvisual arts BY SUZI STEFFEN Open, Yet Unbroken Kazuaki Tanahashi’s work at White Lotus enchants, inspires C an an artist simultaneously honor hundreds of years of tradition and create something that breaks tradition? Calligrapher Kazuaki Tanahashi would likely say yes. Tanahashi, whose “Brush Mind” exhibit opened at White Lotus on Valentine’s Day, mixes traditional methods and Zen Buddhist iconography to create work at once calming and intense. At the gallery, it’s easy to see three distinctly different tracks emerge even though Tanahashi paints each piece on manageably sized canvas with a single acrlyic ﬁ gure. One track, the least interesting, involves massive single brushstrokes across the bottom half or third of the parchment canvases. The strokes incorporate a variety of colors — orange and red, or blue and green with some yellow mixed in, for instance — and run off both sides of the paper. Tanahashi gives many of his similar paintings the same name, in this case, Happiness. The red Happiness at the gallery contains more playful brushwork, a more complex terrain for thought, than the orange painting with the same title. Another path Tanahashi follows is that of calligraphic ideograms. In countries that use ideograms to communicate, calligraphy artists work hard. They study for many years in order to master the movements, the balance and the insight necessary to create stunning, perfectly centered ideograms on bare backgrounds. Tanahashi was born in Japan and spent many years laboring and loving his art before moving to the U.S. in 1977, and his work slyly mixes the old country and the new. Compassion, for instance, combines a wide, airy base with a more compressed peak, where a streak of gold enters the dark paint, and Enjoyment’s bright red tangles teeter atop a playful combination of more solid strokes. But there are also ﬁ gures like One, a one-stroke work, which leap out with their powerful play of white movement on black backgrounds. At the rear of the gallery, One is paired with an explosion of white Part of the reason these pieces jump out is the very Zen acceptance of splatters. Adv. Tix on Sale SEMI-PRO (R) - ID REQ'D ★ U2 3D CONCERT MOVIE - $2.50 FEE FOR 3D (G) ★ !24 #).%-!3 492 East 13th 686-2458 Starts Friday, 2/22! http://bijou-cinemas.com “A blend of horror, comedy, teen exploitation and '50s monster movies which comes off like an alliance between John Waters and Todd Haynes.” 9:10 (except 2/24) Sat Mat 3:10 R “An undeniably impressive visual spectacle.” 5:15 & 7:15 STEEP Academy Sun Mat 3:00 Award Nominated! 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