NEW YORK, NY.- GR gallery announces FREAKS, an exhibition featuring artists Kazy Chan, Satoru Koizumi and Suanjaya Kencut. The show presents a total of 15 artworks, including paintings and sculptures, that bring together three artists whose practices are rooted in storytelling, emotional depth and quirky imagination. This event marks GR gallery’s first exhibition in its new Tribeca location.
With a hauntingly playful spirit, GR gallery invites the viewers into the exhibition ‘FREAKS’, a space to slow down, reconnect with lost memories and step into an uncanny realm of reflection and wonder. The explicit reference to Tod Browning’s 1932 movie unravels not only the whimsical characters who populate the artists imagery but also the thin line in between tender charm and morbidness, innocence and melancholia, irony and social criticism. Featuring new and recent works by first time collaborating artists Kazy Chan and Satoru Koizumi, and longtime gallery friend, Suanjaya Kencut, the show blends three visionary approaches rooted in local narrative, enigmatic essentia and prime skillfulness.
Through carved wooden figures, dreamlike paintings, and hybrid protagonists, each artist presents a unique visual language for exploring emotional landscapes, transformation and memory. Through their aesthetics, range from fanciful to contemplative, the works share a quiet intimacy, encouraging the viewers not only to observe, but to reflect about their own (lost?) naivety. Koizumi’s carved wooden beings—part human, part animal—are both serene and unsettling, their blank gazes quietly reflecting the disconnection of contemporary life, while deeply rooted in traditional Japanese craftsmanship. Kencut’s soft-eyed doll figures hover between innocence and awareness, enacting silent narratives within staged, everyday moments. Kazy Chan’s enigmatic characters, painted in vibrant hues and soft brushstrokes, inhabit dream-like settings where self-reflection and transformation unfold in tandem.
Set in GR gallery’s new Tribeca location, the exhibition FREAKS highlights the resonance of memory in a context of liminality. It offers a gentle reminder that art can be joyful and introspective, easy, but also layered, a moment to pause, and perhaps, to begin again with renewed curiosity and playfulness.
