I myself play tennis ,so I visited this tennis club. There are some old style wooden rackets in the front.
I start playing tennis twice a week. So please wait for my playing video. In addition to this, this tennis club is one of the most traditional club in NY.
By Takuma Tanaka
Tennis club around NYC.
Club house and tennis indoor court.
In 2008, for the first time I went to New York to sell my work.
At that time, there was no iPhone and didn't know where to find galleries, but I decided to go to New York.
I decided to go anyway, because the demand for paintings in Japan had dropped considerably due to the Lehman Shock, and the street sales I was doing at the time and the exhibitions and sales at rental galleries were not doing well.
I had heard that New York was the home of painting, so I decided to check out every place I could find, and I brought a canvas with about a size 10 painting on it, as well as smaller works.
At that time, the situation of galleries in New York was not as clear as it is today through the Internet and other media.
I read in the guide book that the center of the art area was shifting from Chelsea to the Lower East Side, where the Jews first settled in New York, but I had no idea what that meant.
I didn't have much money then than I do now, so I decided to stay at a cheap inn called the Japanese Guest House.
It was 30 dollars a night. After that, I would often use this inn every time I went to New York.
When I landed at John F. Kennedy Airport, I took a shared bus with instructions from the inn.
I took the bus because it was an hour far from Manhattan and I didn't have the money to take a cab.
I don't remember the details of the bus anymore, but there were only colored people on it.
When we arrived at the inn, the driver told us to get off the bus and go here. But there was no sign of the inn.
I panicked, but I got off and looked carefully at the sign and saw the name of the inn in small letters.
To be continued
In this article, I will write about the art industry in the wake of the corona disaster.
Restaurants were particularly damaged by the new coronavirus.
So how was the art industry undergo?
Before the emerge of coronavirus, it was common to visit museums and galleries to view artworks.
However, this situation has now changed.
The pandemic has forced museums and galleries to close their doors.
As a result, artists have lost the opportunity to show and sell their works, and have been put in a difficult situation.
People are now less likely to visit the sites and see the works.
In response to this, the art industry is trying to regain its footing online.
Nowadays, you can freely view artworks online without going out.
And there are some benefits exclusive online, like interviews and discussions of those professionals.
Takuma Tanaka has been presenting and selling his works online for the past three years.
The advantage of online is that you can see the work from a distance without having to visit the studio.
On the other hand, there is a weak point that the texture and size of the work cannot be conveyed.
However, the use of images and video is beginning to make up for this shortcoming as much as possible.
At the Takuma Tanaka Studio, we have taken measures to prevent corona infection, so you can feel at ease when you visit the studio.
If you would like to visit us, please feel free to do so.
That's it for this time. Thank you very much for your time.
A interview about Takuma’s vision is now published on Yahoo! Finance.
Takuma's work is now on exhibition in Aoyama, central Tokyo. If you are interested in please visit and see it!
This big work is now under dealing with American collector who recently opened a museum in Australia
Today I would like to write about how Takuma Tanaka has learned the techniques of art.
My first encounter with painting and art originally began as a form of rehabilitation after I became mentally exhausted. After that, I became interested in art, and I learned how to paint from Mr. Hideaki Kanazawa at Yuzawaya, an art supply store with several locations in the Kanto area.
He was an accomplished artist who had become a member of the Nika-kai at a young age without using any money or connections at all. At that time, he was one of the junior members of the Nika-kai, a title he held at that time, a friend of the society.
I remember the first time I met Mr. Kanazawa, when I showed him a drawing, he said, "You draw like a maestro", which I remember. In the beginning, I learned the basics of drawing, how to draw an abstract painting, and how to create colors.
I went there for over two years.
After six months of studying painting, I decided to participate in the Saitama Prefectural Exhibition, which was to be held in Saitama Prefecture Museum. Mr. Kanazawa told me at the time that it was reckless and impossible because the exhibition is for someone who had studied painting for 10 years .
However, I took up the challenge of creating a painting of size 50, which was a big challenge for me at the time. As a result, it was selected and hung in the Prefectural Museum of Art.
To be continued.
