Natsu: Crystallization

Onishi Gallery

The Japanese artist bridges interior design, arts and crafts, fine art and fashion in sculptures formed from sparkly strung plastic beads. This show features meteorites, figures that are simultaneously mesmerizing, threatening and life-sparking, stoking fascinations over our origins and possible demise. In Natsu’s hands these sublime celestial bodies are all the more bewitching, turned into shimmering skeletal forms casting fantastic colorful shadows that remain vaguely ominous and unknowable. Closes 6/28.

This review will appear in the June 4 issue of The L Magazine.