Montages: Peter Cordova & Kyoko Idetsu
July 15th -- September 19th 2026
Join us for a reception event Wednesday, July 29th at 5PM
Two Indian Head Tail, 2018
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mixed media |
12 x 11 inches
peter cordova
Peter Cordova (b. 1966) has decades of experience as an artist specializing in ceramic sculpture and drawing that often references his Filipino heritage and interest in indigenous cultures. In this exhibition Montages, Cordova presents a collection of colored pencil drawings that explore imagined Indigenous American scenes through repetitive compositions, often of simplified figures in an abstracted midwestern landscape. Cordova states, "I want to speak for myself through my art. I try to share my heritage with other people."
Cordova has participated in over seventy exhibitions nationally throughout his career, and recently his work has been included in group exhibitions at the Oakland Museum of Art, CA, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA, SFO Museum, San Francisco, CA, amongst numerous other places.
In my life, I've done this..., 2018
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Acrylic on paper
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25-5/8 x 19-3/4 inches
Kyoko Idetsu
Kyoko Idetsu (b.1986) is a contemporary painterworking in Tokyo. With a distinctive style that blends elements of manga, film, and expressionism Idetsu transforms her everyday observations into wondrous, emotionally powerful paintings. Her practice is acutely rooted in the minutiae of daily life, capturing fleeting moments and personal anecdotes that focus on parenthood, friendships, and emotional stresses that are relatable, humorous, sad, strange, and empathetic. Many of her paintings in this exhibition feature simplified, hyper-expressive figures set against vibrant, non-chronological compositions, reflecting a spontaneous and intuitive approach to storytelling. She transforms space through her blending and juxtaposition of scenes, as well as her unique compositions, and flattening of figures, in essence creating her own curious, dreamlike worlds.
Idetsu's had recent solo exhibitions at Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, Hoffman Donahue Gallery, NYC, and Crevecoeur, Paris, and was included in group exhibitions at Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland, Bemis Center, Omaha, and the Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo. Her work is in the collection of The Portland Museum of Art, Maine.
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Artists in conversation
In mid-July, a small second-floor gallery in Concord opened a show called "Montages," with two artists, Peter Cordova and Kyoko Idetsu, showing their work. It’s billed as an artistic conversation, and that’s the idea that led Roger Buttles to open Outer Space Arts in a well-lit space across the hall from his own studio in the former residence of a Civil War colonel.