Michiko Itatani Exhibition: Cosmic Codes

Dates and Times

• Sat, Jul 19, 2025 - Sun, Jul 20, 2025  11am - 5pm
• Saturday, Aug 2, 2025  11am - 5pm

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Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce the opening of Michiko Itatani: Cosmic Codes

Over the course of her decades-long career, Michiko Itatani has developed a unique pictorial language focusing on the human desire to understand and apprehend the unknown. Cosmic Codes assembles six paintings spanning twenty years of Itatani’s practice, highlighting works that visualize ornate spaces for gathering. Installed in chronological order, the first painting, Cosmic Sleepwalk (2007) and last, Matrix Identity (2024), depict the same setting. This long arc of exploration across subject matter is a cornerstone of Itatani’s oeuvre.

Creating unique environments with architectural inspiration, both real and imagined, Itatani’s fantastical spaces are recognizable and familiar, but belong to no particular place or time. In a process largely influenced by fiction writing, she crafts layered scenes as character investigations of human experience within the larger context of the universe/multiverse. Itatani conjures settings comprised of disparate elements that coexist within the same moment of time; dimensions overlap, night crosses into the day, the celestial and terrestrial worlds intersect, chandeliers hang amongst stars, both illuminating the cosmos. In each painting a luminous set of rings, or portals, hover, offering a possible access point from one realm to another. 

Exhibition on Display: June 26 - August 2, 2025
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm