{"id":239331,"date":"2025-05-13T06:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T06:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/art\/japanese-artist-ulala-imai-turns-her-kids-toys-into-cuddly-paintings\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T06:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T06:17:24","slug":"japanese-artist-ulala-imai-turns-her-kids-toys-into-cuddly-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=239331","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Artist Ulala Imai Turns Her Kids\u2019 Toys into Cuddly Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Art<\/p>\n<p><a display=\"block\" text-decoration=\"none\" class=\"RouterLink__RouterAwareLink-sc-77e33c7f-0 bGjAxA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/article\/artsy-editorial-japanese-artist-ulala-imai-turns-kids-toys-cuddly-paintings\"><\/p>\n<p>Erik Augustin Palm<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0\">\n<div display=\"flex\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 Flex-sc-cw39ct-0 idkEHS\">\n<div width=\"100%\" overflow=\"hidden\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4000 \/ 2667;max-width:100%\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 jJVzlg\"><button width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" cursor=\"pointer\" type=\"button\" class=\"Clickable-sc-10cr82y-0 ArticleZoomButton__Button-sc-1dcbc19e-1 hgRaTA ivFEyf\"><\/p>\n<div width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 fnOOKv\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" display=\"block\" style=\"transition:opacity 0.2s ease-in-out;opacity:0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fartsy-media-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2FGldwvbX5AwgmYdTdfsVoLQ%252FUlala%2BImai%2B-%2BPortrait%2Bby%2BThomas%2BMerle.jpg&amp;width=910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fartsy-media-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2FGldwvbX5AwgmYdTdfsVoLQ%252FUlala%2BImai%2B-%2BPortrait%2Bby%2BThomas%2BMerle.jpg&amp;width=910 1x, https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fartsy-media-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2FGldwvbX5AwgmYdTdfsVoLQ%252FUlala%2BImai%2B-%2BPortrait%2Bby%2BThomas%2BMerle.jpg&amp;width=1820 2x\" alt=\"\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 guRykI\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div display=\"flex\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 Flex-sc-cw39ct-0 kdTUFJ\">\n<div overflow=\"hidden\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 dyysfQ\">\n<div class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0\">\n<div color=\"mono60\" font-family=\"sans\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 Text-sc-18gcpao-0 HTML__Container-sc-1im40xc-0 irDwAE bbAxnM eaQyqh\">\n<p>Portrait of Ulala Imai by Thomas Merle. Courtesy of Xavier Hufkens. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 ArticleHTML__Container-sc-630152bc-0 hsljei kyjxio\">\n<p>In a quiet residential pocket of Japan\u2019s Kanagawa Prefecture, about an hour southwest of Tokyo, Japanese painter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/artist\/ulala-imai\">Ulala Imai<\/a> lives surrounded by architecture that evokes her past. She shares a newly built, tiered, and spacious home\u2014elegant, minimalist, airy, and flooded with soft white light\u2014with her husband and children. But just across the street stands the three-story home where she grew up, originally a U.S. military house purchased and redesigned by her father, Shingo Imai, a Western-style painter. Diagonally across is another single-story house where she and her family lived until last November\u2014her home and studio for nine years. Much of her recent work was painted in its living room, often with her children playing beside her.<\/p>\n<p>Next door to her current home is another building woven into her personal history: a tiny weathered house which her father rented as a young man, where Imai also spent part of her childhood. Today, that building serves as Imai\u2019s studio. The space hums quietly with large canvases in various stages, and is adorned with painting equipment and everyday objects from her life, which she often portrays in her art. One of the most acclaimed figurative painters in Japan today, Imai\u2019s international visibility is now growing\u2014with works recently shown at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/partner\/karma\">Karma<\/a> in New York and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/fair\/art-basel-hong-kong-2025\">Art Basel Hong Kong<\/a>, and others held in major collections including those at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/partner\/san-francisco-museum-of-modern-art-sfmoma\">SFMOMA<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/partner\/dallas-museum-of-art\">Dallas Museum of Art. At the same time, <\/a>her inner world remains tightly rooted in home. The upcoming exhibition \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/show\/xavier-hufkens-ulala-imai-close?sort=partner_show_position\">CLOSE<\/a>\u201d at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/partner\/xavier-hufkens\">Xavier Hufkens<\/a> in Brussels, on view May 15th through July 12th, continues that trajectory, weaving in references to Shinto spirituality and childhood objects, family, care, and presence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0\">\n<div display=\"flex\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 Flex-sc-cw39ct-0 idkEHS\">\n<div width=\"100%\" overflow=\"hidden\" style=\"aspect-ratio:3000 \/ 4000;max-width:100%\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 jJVzlg\"><button width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" cursor=\"pointer\" type=\"button\" class=\"Clickable-sc-10cr82y-0 ArticleZoomButton__Button-sc-1dcbc19e-1 hgRaTA ivFEyf\"><\/p>\n<div width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 fnOOKv\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" display=\"block\" style=\"transition:opacity 0.2s ease-in-out;opacity:0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fartsy-media-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2FpES9wRg4LFkbawJjC8JkYw%252FFromStudioWall-UlalaImai-PHOTOPrivate.jpeg&amp;width=450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fartsy-media-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2FpES9wRg4LFkbawJjC8JkYw%252FFromStudioWall-UlalaImai-PHOTOPrivate.jpeg&amp;width=450 1x, https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fartsy-media-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2FpES9wRg4LFkbawJjC8JkYw%252FFromStudioWall-UlalaImai-PHOTOPrivate.jpeg&amp;width=900 2x\" alt=\"\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 guRykI\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<div width=\"100%\" overflow=\"hidden\" style=\"aspect-ratio:3000 \/ 4000;max-width:100%\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 jJVzlg\"><button width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" cursor=\"pointer\" type=\"button\" class=\"Clickable-sc-10cr82y-0 ArticleZoomButton__Button-sc-1dcbc19e-1 hgRaTA ivFEyf\"><\/p>\n<div width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 fnOOKv\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" display=\"block\" style=\"transition:opacity 0.2s ease-in-out;opacity:0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fartsy-media-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fo4gSOcC4xjQPhVTb0CxToA%252F3.UlalaImai-studio%2526home-PHOTOErikAugustinPalm-APPROVED.jpeg&amp;width=450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fartsy-media-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fo4gSOcC4xjQPhVTb0CxToA%252F3.UlalaImai-studio%2526home-PHOTOErikAugustinPalm-APPROVED.jpeg&amp;width=450 1x, https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fartsy-media-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fo4gSOcC4xjQPhVTb0CxToA%252F3.UlalaImai-studio%2526home-PHOTOErikAugustinPalm-APPROVED.jpeg&amp;width=900 2x\" alt=\"\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 guRykI\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div display=\"flex\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 Flex-sc-cw39ct-0 kdTUFJ\">\n<div overflow=\"hidden\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 dyysfQ\">\n<div class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0\">\n<div color=\"mono60\" font-family=\"sans\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 Text-sc-18gcpao-0 HTML__Container-sc-1im40xc-0 irDwAE bbAxnM eaQyqh\">\n<p>Detail from Ulala Imai\u2019s studio. Photo by Erik Augustin Palm. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div overflow=\"hidden\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 dyysfQ\">\n<div class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0\">\n<div color=\"mono60\" font-family=\"sans\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 Text-sc-18gcpao-0 HTML__Container-sc-1im40xc-0 irDwAE bbAxnM eaQyqh\">\n<p>Detail from Ulala Imai\u2019s studio. Photo by Erik Augustin Palm. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 ArticleHTML__Container-sc-630152bc-0 hsljei kyjxio\">\n<p>Imai\u2019s rise, however, has been slow-burning. A graduate of the prestigious Tama Art University, she exhibited for years in Japan before gaining international momentum, which started at Paris Internationale in 2017, where she showed small paintings of buttered toast and fruit at Union Pacific\u2019s booth. Her 2021 international solo debut exhibition, \u201cAMAZING,\u201d at Nonaka-Hill in Los Angeles coincided with the pandemic\u2014a time she describes as creatively formative. Confined to the home that also served as her studio, she began to make work with what was immediately at hand. That inward-looking period, she said, helped shape her style and gave her the courage to pursue opportunities abroad.<\/p>\n<p>In her Kanagawa studio, there\u2019s a life-sized toy dog with only one ear\u2014highly symbolic, given Imai\u2019s hearing impairment\u2014which is the subject of one of her new paintings. On one wall hangs a painting by her father. Imai is a third-generation artist, raised in a richly visual household, now married to contemporary painter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/artist\/yu-nishimura\">Yu Nishimura<\/a> (recently added to the roster of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/partner\/david-zwirner\">David Zwirner<\/a>). For this creative couple, art is both heritage and living practice.<\/p>\n<p>In this geographically tight, emotionally expansive stomping ground, Imai has carved out a singularly intimate practice. \u201cMost of the motifs in my paintings come from my daily life within a small, one-and-a-half-kilometer radius. These are familiar scenes and objects,\u201d she said. It\u2019s a sensation she evokes in her current exhibition title \u201cCLOSE\u201d: \u201cWhile it could bring to mind the image of a store closing, it holds a sense of warmth and intimacy for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0\">\n<div display=\"flex\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 Flex-sc-cw39ct-0 idkEHS\">\n<div width=\"100%\" overflow=\"hidden\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2944 \/ 2376;max-width:100%\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 jJVzlg\"><button width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" cursor=\"pointer\" type=\"button\" class=\"Clickable-sc-10cr82y-0 ArticleZoomButton__Button-sc-1dcbc19e-1 hgRaTA ivFEyf\"><\/p>\n<div width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 fnOOKv\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" display=\"block\" style=\"transition:opacity 0.2s ease-in-out;opacity:0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fd32dm0rphc51dk.cloudfront.net%2FaBzgSHSGlYwcaaljkVJbLg%2Fmain.jpg&amp;width=910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fd32dm0rphc51dk.cloudfront.net%2FaBzgSHSGlYwcaaljkVJbLg%2Fmain.jpg&amp;width=910 1x, https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fd32dm0rphc51dk.cloudfront.net%2FaBzgSHSGlYwcaaljkVJbLg%2Fmain.jpg&amp;width=1820 2x\" alt=\"Ulala Imai, \u2018Build up\u2019, 2025, Painting, Oil on canvas, Xavier Hufkens\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 guRykI\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 ArticleHTML__Container-sc-630152bc-0 hsljei kyjxio\">\n<p>In her paintings, toys, food, household objects, and everyday rituals become the central actors in paintings that float between the real and the uncanny. To perceive Imai\u2019s work is indeed to experience a kind of visual hush, rooted in how she perceives the world. \u201cI was born with hearing loss,\u201d she explained. \u201cBecause of that, I have no real sense of what sound is like for those with full hearing. Hearing aids are essential for me, but the digitally converted world they offer often feels fake. I\u2019ve found it hard to trust\u2014so I\u2019ve come to rely even more on the visual world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Imai\u2019s hearing impairment shapes her relationship to visual rhythm. \u201cEven in silence, when I encounter a moment that moves me deeply, it resonates like a melody within me,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t know the textbook definition of melody, but if my work can evoke a forgotten tune in someone\u2019s heart, that makes me very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This reliance on vision isn\u2019t just practical; it\u2019s poetic. Her paintings often evoke the stillness of a room just after someone has left. They\u2019re composed through a meticulous process of real-world arrangement\u2014arranging scenes both inside and outside her home before translating them into paint on canvas. The results are both luminous and elusive: domestic scenes rendered with the psychological resonance of myth. \u201cI want to paint something like a flickering candle,\u201d she says, \u201cwhich has no sound, but still moves and comforts the heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0\">\n<div display=\"flex\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 Flex-sc-cw39ct-0 idkEHS\">\n<div width=\"100%\" overflow=\"hidden\" style=\"aspect-ratio:3200 \/ 4000;max-width:100%\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 jJVzlg\"><button width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" cursor=\"pointer\" type=\"button\" class=\"Clickable-sc-10cr82y-0 ArticleZoomButton__Button-sc-1dcbc19e-1 hgRaTA ivFEyf\"><\/p>\n<div width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 fnOOKv\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" display=\"block\" style=\"transition:opacity 0.2s ease-in-out;opacity:0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fartsy-media-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fp0mHbvcMB3Tk9miF_R_FOA%252F4.UlalaImai-studio%2526home-PHOTOErikAugustinPalm-APPROVED.jpeg&amp;width=450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fartsy-media-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fp0mHbvcMB3Tk9miF_R_FOA%252F4.UlalaImai-studio%2526home-PHOTOErikAugustinPalm-APPROVED.jpeg&amp;width=450 1x, https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fartsy-media-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fp0mHbvcMB3Tk9miF_R_FOA%252F4.UlalaImai-studio%2526home-PHOTOErikAugustinPalm-APPROVED.jpeg&amp;width=900 2x\" alt=\"\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 guRykI\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<div width=\"100%\" overflow=\"hidden\" style=\"aspect-ratio:3400 \/ 4000;max-width:100%\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 jJVzlg\"><button width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" cursor=\"pointer\" type=\"button\" class=\"Clickable-sc-10cr82y-0 ArticleZoomButton__Button-sc-1dcbc19e-1 hgRaTA ivFEyf\"><\/p>\n<div width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 fnOOKv\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" display=\"block\" style=\"transition:opacity 0.2s ease-in-out;opacity:0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fartsy-media-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0PMlg8a456DGlO49QX5qNA%252FCharlieBrown%2526Lucy-UlalaImai-PHOTOPrivate.jpeg&amp;width=450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fartsy-media-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0PMlg8a456DGlO49QX5qNA%252FCharlieBrown%2526Lucy-UlalaImai-PHOTOPrivate.jpeg&amp;width=450 1x, https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fartsy-media-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0PMlg8a456DGlO49QX5qNA%252FCharlieBrown%2526Lucy-UlalaImai-PHOTOPrivate.jpeg&amp;width=900 2x\" alt=\"\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 guRykI\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div display=\"flex\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 Flex-sc-cw39ct-0 kdTUFJ\">\n<div overflow=\"hidden\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 dyysfQ\">\n<div class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0\">\n<div color=\"mono60\" font-family=\"sans\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 Text-sc-18gcpao-0 HTML__Container-sc-1im40xc-0 irDwAE bbAxnM eaQyqh\">\n<p>Detail from Ulala Imai\u2019s studio. Photo by Erik Augustin Palm. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div overflow=\"hidden\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 dyysfQ\">\n<div class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0\">\n<div color=\"mono60\" font-family=\"sans\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 Text-sc-18gcpao-0 HTML__Container-sc-1im40xc-0 irDwAE bbAxnM eaQyqh\">\n<p>Detail from Ulala Imai\u2019s studio. Photo by Erik Augustin Palm. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 ArticleHTML__Container-sc-630152bc-0 hsljei kyjxio\">\n<p>That duality\u2014stillness with an emotional undercurrent\u2014runs throughout \u201cCLOSE.\u201d One painting, <em>LOVERS<\/em> (2025), is a large-scale work featuring Charlie Brown and Lucy (from the comic strip \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/artist\/peanuts\">Peanuts<\/a>\u201d) figurines perched in a tree just beyond her window. Later, I spotted the actual toys resting on a shelf in her spacious, open-plan living room. \u201cThe figures are stretched so large that they feel very close to the viewer,\u201d Imai said. \u201cBut there is a clear boundary. They are in a world of their own, wrapped in the shade of the tree.\u201d The figures\u2019 gaze is soft and shared, angled upward in the same direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe live in an era filled with contradictions and overwhelming information, where uncertainty is constant,\u201d she continued. \u201cIn such times, I want to continue painting in a way that communicates my feelings as honestly and clearly as possible\u2014to express something simple and heartfelt, something that resonates directly with the viewer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Motherhood also reshaped her approach to art-making. \u201cAfter my first child was born, I was trying to figure out how to keep creating while caring for a baby,\u201d she recalled. \u201cDuring naps, I would gather whatever objects I had around me\u2014baby dolls, scallions from the fridge, a glass of grape juice\u2014and start setting up still lifes on the dining table. Sometimes I\u2019d even stick an Ultraman figure into a potato,\u201d she said, referring to the Japanese science fiction character. Her husband, being a painter himself, would return from work and quietly join in. \u201cEven if the setup looked surreal, he helped me tweak the composition until it felt just right,\u201d she added. \u201cThat became the foundation of my current practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0\">\n<div display=\"flex\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 Flex-sc-cw39ct-0 idkEHS\">\n<div width=\"100%\" overflow=\"hidden\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2999 \/ 2334;max-width:100%\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 jJVzlg\"><button width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" cursor=\"pointer\" type=\"button\" class=\"Clickable-sc-10cr82y-0 ArticleZoomButton__Button-sc-1dcbc19e-1 hgRaTA ivFEyf\"><\/p>\n<div width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 fnOOKv\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" display=\"block\" style=\"transition:opacity 0.2s ease-in-out;opacity:0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fd32dm0rphc51dk.cloudfront.net%2FgmdAWdeZsVGU7SA297sN4Q%2Fmain.jpg&amp;width=910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fd32dm0rphc51dk.cloudfront.net%2FgmdAWdeZsVGU7SA297sN4Q%2Fmain.jpg&amp;width=910 1x, https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fd32dm0rphc51dk.cloudfront.net%2FgmdAWdeZsVGU7SA297sN4Q%2Fmain.jpg&amp;width=1820 2x\" alt=\"Ulala Imai, \u2018CONEY ISLAND\u2019, 2025, Painting, Oil on canvas, Xavier Hufkens\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 guRykI\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 ArticleHTML__Container-sc-630152bc-0 hsljei kyjxio\">\n<p>What might read on the surface as domestic simplicity\u2014teddy bears or cherries in a bowl\u2014reveals deeper psychological registers under Imai\u2019s brush. These objects are neither strictly symbolic nor entirely literal. They hum with something else: an aura of care, of memory, of minor griefs and small joys.<\/p>\n<p>Another new painting, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/artwork\/ulala-imai-coney-island\">CONEY ISLAND<\/a><\/em> (2025), was inspired by a visit to New York. It shows two teddy bears in bathrobes seated quietly on a deserted winter beach, a shuttered amusement park in the distance. The image evokes a melancholic stillness\u2014a sense of narrative suspended. Amusement parks, after all, only come alive when animated by play\u2014their emptiness here implies something more uneasy, a tension between peace and disquiet. The bears themselves appear inwardly animated, caught in silent dialogue or reverie.<\/p>\n<p>This ambiguity is part of what gives Imai\u2019s work such staying power: specific but not didactic, saturated with feeling but not too sentimental. \u201cLiving with my family, each of whom has different personalities and preferences, naturally brings about lifestyle changes as my children grow,\u201d she said. \u201cThese shifts become a steady source of creative nourishment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0\">\n<div display=\"flex\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 Flex-sc-cw39ct-0 idkEHS\">\n<div width=\"100%\" overflow=\"hidden\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2937 \/ 2383;max-width:100%\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 jJVzlg\"><button width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" cursor=\"pointer\" type=\"button\" class=\"Clickable-sc-10cr82y-0 ArticleZoomButton__Button-sc-1dcbc19e-1 hgRaTA ivFEyf\"><\/p>\n<div width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 fnOOKv\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" display=\"block\" style=\"transition:opacity 0.2s ease-in-out;opacity:0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fd32dm0rphc51dk.cloudfront.net%2FOcbpcUfloI8-V1w0kUdpoA%2Fmain.jpg&amp;width=910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fd32dm0rphc51dk.cloudfront.net%2FOcbpcUfloI8-V1w0kUdpoA%2Fmain.jpg&amp;width=910 1x, https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net?quality=80&amp;resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fd32dm0rphc51dk.cloudfront.net%2FOcbpcUfloI8-V1w0kUdpoA%2Fmain.jpg&amp;width=1820 2x\" alt=\"Ulala Imai, \u2018Cherries\u2019, 2025, Painting, Oil on canvas, Xavier Hufkens\" class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 guRykI\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Box-sc-15se88d-0 ArticleHTML__Container-sc-630152bc-0 hsljei kyjxio ArticleSectionText__ArticleHTMLLastChild-sc-dc4648d4-1 fFJXgY\">\n<p>\u201cMy last show at Xavier Hufkens was titled \u2018LOST,\u2019 which depicted a charred wilderness just beginning to regenerate after a wildfire. 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