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Kio

the proof is in the pudding

About Me

I draw and design visuals for music labels, design logos, lettering, tagline copy, tooled improvised watercolors, shuffle ASCII ooperloopers, fold and glue "super origamic" characters, low grade site specific sculptures, licking beaters, build instruments and play them, channeling in English and Japanese, teaching typography, finding rare OOP soundtracks, collecting fortune cookie messages. (if you got any crazy ones send a small jpeg file or just the text to [email protected] ). thanks!

I'm currently working on a series of screen prints.
Some of my work can be seen by clicking on the "pics" link by the profile.

COMING UP

HIVE GALLERY , 729 Spring Street, Downtown Los Angeles, CA 90014
Group Show
Group show
Opening July 5, 2008@8PM-12AM
and will run until July 29.

Check out the new work here.
"New Work"

My Interests

Art Ensemble of Chicago, Wadada Leo Smith, Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves, Ornette Coleman, Vinny Golia, Empty Cage Quartet, Jason Mears, Kris Tiner, Ivan Johnson, Paul Kikuchi, Richard Long, Bob Marley, Bela Bartok, Duke Ellington, Jim Jarmusch, Nels Cline, Albert Ayler, Laura Owens, Bob Dylan, Zanzibara, Jonas Mekas, Allen D Glass II, Zoe Canner, Kristin Pepe, Dottie Grossman, Nick Drake, Misato Nagare, Charles Ives, Martin Kippenberger, Billie Holiday, Leonard Cohen, Andrew Shoultz, Miles Davis, Erik Friedlander, Topaz, Jo Jackson, Taarab music, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Haino Keiji, Tanaka Min, cappuccino, Iannis Xenakis, Tim Hawkinson, Neil Young, Hijikata Tatsumi, Thelonious Monk, Chris Ofili, Toru Takemitsu, Mitchell Brown, Charles Mingus, Devendra Banhart, Harry Partch, Soga Shouhaku, Eric Dolphy, Gregory Bateson, Erik Satie, Marc-Andre Dalbavie, Lettrism, Haruki Murakami, Otomo Yoshihide, Ruins, Joseph Beuys, Steve Lacy, Jeremy Drake, Gabriel Orozco, Ozu Yasujiro, Raymond Pettibone, Cory Wright, Lothar Schmitz, Harris Eisenstadt, Georgeanne Deen, Gary Panter, Ed Ruscha, Billy Higgins, Jockum Nordstrom, Sara Schoenbeck, Ellen Burr, Jeffrey Holmes, Evan Parker, Keegan McHargue, Wolfgang Tillmans, Mika Soma, Tanizaki Junichiro, Kokontei Shinshou, Kawanabe Kyousai, Ken Garduno, Alex Schaefer, Future of the Left, Mclusky, Kaz Oshiro, Wilson Hsu, Yugo Fujita, Tadanori Yokoo, Koizumi Yakumo, Ishikawa Kyuuyou, Ifukube Akira, Alfred Jensen, Herman Hesse, Steven Schwartz, Haubs, Aaron Freeman, Shinichiro Ono, Rob Nichols, Timothy Hull, Laylah Ali, Amy Cutler, Miranda July, Amy Sillman, Tatsu Nishino, Kenichi Yokono, Kazuyo Sejima, Masahiko Shimada, Ambrose Akinmusire, Alex Steinweiss, Frank Magnotta, Katsuki Tanaka, Ichiba Daisuke, Kuri Yoji, Lick The Beaters...

I'd like to meet:

a cup of siphon coffee at Cafe Balcony. mistakes that are actually miracles, rare out-of-print soundtracks, text books from the 1930s~60s, home, beater lickers