DAVIE, Fla. - The Broward College Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery will launch Harumi Abe’s and Dustin London’s duo exhibition “Kokon Tōzai 古今東西”, with an opening reception from 4-7 p.m. Saturday, November 20 and an artist lecture at 5 p.m. Light refreshments will be served, and the event is free and open to the public. We hope you can join us to celebrate the artists and their work and to enjoy some delicious food and drink. The exhibition will run through Tuesday, January 17, 2026.

The Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery is located on Broward College’s A. Hugh Adams Central Campus, 3501 SW Davie Rd., Davie, Fl., Building 6. Admission to the gallery is free and open to the public.

“Kokon Tōzai 古今東西,” meaning ‘old and new, east and west,’ is a duo exhibition that showcases the kinship that Abe and London found in each other’s culture of upbringing. “Kokon Tōzai 古今東西” is explored more metaphysically to all ages and places rather than literally. Abe expresses her deep concern about our complex and ever-changing relationship to the natural world, in a time of its increasing destruction and continual natural disasters, through large-scale paintings that layer landscape imagery to consider notions of place, time, utopia and horror in the sublime. Abe strives to capture the fleeting moments of the natural world using acrylic and acryla gouache and a vivid chromatic palette to create a dramatic interplay between warm and cool tonalities.

Consequently, London’s work stems from a fascination with the flexibility and instability of pictorial space. Through an improvised choreography of paper, mark, form, and void, he looks for compositions to achieve a state of suspension where form and emptiness readily exchange roles, and spatial positions are slippery, dependent upon the way one chooses to see. London particularly leans towards the Japanese garden design method—meigakure (meaning ‘hide and reveal’) to format his layered compositions, resulting an atmosphere of suggestion and implication that prompts a viewer to imagine what is unseen and charges the space with mystery and potentiality. “Kokon Tōzai 古今東西” ultimately becomes a contemplative meeting point between two artists, where differing cultural sensibilities converge to explore the fluid boundaries between nature, space, and perception.

Please join us at the Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery on Broward College’s Central Campus to explore the layered spaces and mystery of what is unseen of Abe and London’s work.

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ABOUT THE ROSEMARY DUFFY LARSON GALLERY: Since 1965, the Broward College Central Campus Fine Arts Gallery has exhibited artworks from over 150 regional, national, and international artists such as Carl Andre, Hernan Bas, Judy Chicago, Angi Curreri, Yuri Dojc, Duane Hanson, Kenneth Huff, Nam June Paik, Pilar Tobin, and Pablo Picasso. In 2012, Broward College opened the Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery, located in the state-of-the-art Visual & Performing Arts Building. The Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery is a non-profit institution serving BC students, faculty, and the greater South Florida arts community.

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