Curated by James Cavello, Hideo Mori’s recent exhibition, Blue Infinity at Westwood Gallery, came as a revelation to many who mentally equate contemporary Japanese art with its more publicized permutations. In contrast to those artists heated to Japan’s imitative youth culture, Mori is a mature artist whose meticulously refined large realist canvases evoke figures in misty blue dreamscapes suggesting a mysterious and complex inner world.
The Transcendent Blue Wet-Dreams of Hideo Mori
Ed McCormick, Gallery & Studio, 1 Apr 2002