Supper Club Hong Kong with Ehrlich Steinberg, LA / March 24 – 30, 2025 / Emi Mizukami

Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles and 4649, Tokyo are pleased to present works by Tokyo-based Japanese artist Emi Mizukami for the hybrid art event, Supper Club in Hong Kong, running March 24 – 30 2025.

At once allegorical and abstruse, Mizukami’s work develops a dense visual and material language, engaging with ancient and contemporary modes of representation. Building up the painting’s surface through numerous layers of imagery and sand paste–thickened paint, recurring depictions become simultaneously concretized and obscured as they emerge or submerge. Although earlier images now lie hidden underneath the surface, Mizukami does not distinguish any hierarchy between these visible and invisible layers. Instead, the hidden and exposed – described by the artist as the “disappearing” and “remaining” images – are seen as mutually developing the painting’s pictorial, temporal and structural plane. These sealed, under-layers resurface on the backs of the paintings as loosely drawn and painted fragments from the artist’s memory. In this way, the work’s representational structure and allegorical timeline is further complicated as supposed origin images and initial sketches are reconstituted as final marks and remembered traces.

Emi Mizukami (b. 1992, Tokyo, JP) lives and works in Tokyo, JP. Mizukami received her BFA in Oil Painting from Tama Art University, Tokyo in 2017. Previous solo exhibitions include Million Bubbles at Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Pale Phantom at King’s Leap, New York, NY (2024); And so it goes at Larder, Los Angeles, CA (2023), So it goes at 4649, Tokyo, JP (2022); Catharsis Bed at CADAN YURAKUCHO, Tokyo, JP (2022) and Dear sentiment at TOKAS Hongo, Tokyo, JP (2021).