Yume Japanese Gardens

Autumn Ikebana exhibition at Yume Japanese Gardens

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Fourth Annual Autumn Ikebana Exhibition  (Nov. 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27) “Dozens of traditional Japanese flower arrangements (Ikebana) will be on display throughout the Gardens to delight you in our Fourth Annual Autumn Ikebana Exhibiiton. This year’s exhibition is special, because we are extending it from three days to an an entire week, … Read more

Children’s Day celebration at Yume Japanese Gardens

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Children’s Day Festival at Yume Japanese Gardens on May 7 Traditional celebration featuring Yukata for youngsters, Games, Origami, Craft, Children’ music concert, exhibitions and more! Saturday, May 7 2016 11am to 3pm Yume Japanese Gardens of Tucson is a non –for-profit 501(c)(3)organization Yume Japanese Gardens of Tucson 2130 North Alvernon Way Tucson, Arizona 85712 www.yumegardens.org … Read more

Candlelight vigil for recent earthquake victims at Yume Japanese Gardens

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TUCSON JAPANESE COMMUNITY TO HOLD CANDLELIGHT VIGIL, CONCERT FOR VICTIMS OF JAPANESE AND ECUADORIAN QUAKES  “Last week’s devastating earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador are bringing the local Japanese community together at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 20,  to hold a 30-minute candlelight vigil and concert at Yume Japanese Gardens of Tucson, the area’s only authentic … Read more

Beautiful Ikebana Festival at Yume Japanese Gardens

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Ikebana Festival at Yume Japanese Gardens from Nov.27 to 30 “Ikebana is the traditional Japanese art of flower arranging, in which shape, form, and line are as important as blooms. View the artful techniques and creations of five schools of ikebana displayed throughout the Gardens and gain an insight into a non-Western way of harmonizing … Read more

Exquisite Golden Images photo exhibit coming to Yume Japanese Gardens

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Golden Photographs Poster Resized

Gold Leaf Photos Put Shimmer and Shine in The Eye of The Beholder

 Updated Antique Photographic Technique Makes Pictures Glow In Local Exhibit

“A long-neglected process that utilizes gold to render highlights with startlingly more depth and luminosity than ordinary photographs appears in a modern incarnation in the exhibit Gold Leaf Photographs by Kate Breakey, opening September 11 at Yume Japanese Gardens of Tucson, 2130 N. Alvernon Way.

 A Tucson resident born in Australia, Breakey enjoys international acclaim for her images that achieve luminous effects through the exploration of antique photographic processes that have become part of art history.

 The images in her current show are modern versions of Orotones. In their heyday — the early 20th century — Orotones were created by printing a positive photographic image on a glass plate and then coating the plate with lacquer impregnated with bronze, silver, or gold metallic pigment.

In her resurrection of this process, Breakey uses contemporary media and technology to print her photographs digitally on glass and then flawlessly hand applies 23.5-karat gold leaf to the back of the plate. Light penetrates the glass plate, strikes the gold leaf underneath, and beams back, illuminating the image from behind and creating a picture that glows and shimmers from within.The effect is reminiscent of the luminosity of a gilded Japanese screen.

 The traditional Orotones most familiar to Americans are those of Edward S. Curtis, the ethnologist and photographer of the American West who documented Native American peoples in a massive collection of images made from 1906 to 1930.

Since 1980 Breakey has exhibited in nearly 150 solo and group shows in the U.S., France, Japan, Australia, China, and New Zealand. Her images are held in many public institutions, including the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Australian National Gallery in Canberra and the Osaka Museum in Osaka, Japan. She is represented by Etherton Gallery in Tucson,  one of the Southwest’s premier galleries and the co-sponsor of the current exhibition.

 A free opening reception and exhibition preview will be held at Yume Japanese Gardens on September 11 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Golden Images: Gold Leaf Photographs runs until November 20, 9:30 to 4:30 daily.”

 For more information visit http://www.yumegardens.org, emailyume.gardens@gmail.com or call Allen Boraiko of Yume Japanese Gardens at 520-343-0926. ​Entry is free with regular admission to the Gardens.

Carolyn’s note: Yume Japanese gardens itself is closed for the summer till October 1st, but this exhibit will be open daily, till Nov. 20, 2015.

 

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