“We walk around with our coffee and download about our past week while buying what looks especially scrumptious to plan meals for the following week, including dinner parties,” says Megumi Shauna Arai. Letting Jacobsen lead the tableware selection is a no-brainer, as is Arai’s menu inspiration, culled directly from what’s in season at the time, no matter if it’s roasted rhubarb or caramelized pears.” — Kate McGregor for Architectural Digest
We loved reading the latest edition of “Table Mates” from @archdigest , where creatives Megumi Shauna Arai and Sophie Lou Jacobsen give us the scoop on how they plan and execute their dream soirées. Needless to say, we’d trust them entirely with our next dinner party!
Read the full article through the link in our bio.
Megumi Shauna Arai
persevering, 2025
Silk, water-based paint, oil pigment
24 x 20 in.
NJ ❤️’s Dallas! We are so grateful to James Cope for welcoming us to the Dallas Invitational. Come visit us in Room 109 with works by Megumi Shauna Arai, Rob Davis, Elsa Hansen Oldham, Minjae Kim, Estefania Puerta, and Katie Stout through Saturday, April 18.
Dallas Invitational, installation views.
“I am not a creature of habit, and that’s precisely why I have to have a map and a rhythm. It’s fluid and changes slightly, but there’s a map that I kind of ride during the wave of every day. It facilitates me being totally clear so I can just focus on making… That’s how I make work; that’s how I lead my life.” — Megumi Shauna Arai in conversation with Caitlin Lorraine Johnson for BOMB Magazine
Gratitude to @caitlinlorrainejohnson and @bombmag for such a thoughtful and beautifully attuned conversation, offering a glimpse into Megumi’s inner world, where her lived experience and ways of being are deeply traced in the movement of the work. Read the article online through the link in our bio.
Megumi Shauna Arai: "The Tongue is the Child of the Heart," opens tonight, Thursday, February 12th, in our Upstairs Gallery. Come celebrate with us from 6-8pm!
“In her silk relief works, Arai applies water-based paint and oil pigment to stretched silk in dynamic strokes derived from the heart-focused qigong instruction of Daria Faïn. Through repeated observation of filmed practice, Arai tracks and abstracts core physical gestures, translating them into patterned forms that operate as a visual language of qi in motion.” -Words by Sofia Thiệu D’Amico
Megumi Shauna Arai
thought, 2025
Silk, water-based paint, oil pigment
24 x 20 in.
Early morning light, and the rare gift of momentary stillness.
the host, the guest, a group show curated by Nichole Caruso, opens today.
4-6pm
See you there.
📍1705 N. Kenmore Ave.
In this post, Megumi Shauna Arai (@oneflewup ) reflects on how her fascination with movement has led her to explore different mediums, materials, and shifts in scale throughout her practice. Learn more about Megumi’s work by reading and watching her full artist feature on our website. Link in bio.
𝙽𝙴𝚆 𝙵𝙴𝙰𝚃𝚄𝚁𝙴! Megumi Shauna Arai digs into the details of her solo show “Immanent Infinite” at Object & Thing in an interview with Hannah Martin. Influences ranging from Aby Warburg to Gilles Deleuze and Zen Buddhism all find their way into Arai’s work, which portrays emotion and being through something we see every day, hanging on a laundry line or draped around a body: fabric in motion.
Link in bio 🔗
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Images: 1) Megumi Shauna Arai in her Lower East Side studio with “This Skein Becoming,” 2025. Photograph by OK McCausland. 2) Megumi Shauna Arai, “Notation 2, Beholding Contours,” 2025. Silk, silk paint and oil pigment. Courtesy of the artist and Object & Thing. Photograph by Fyodor Shiryaev. 3) Megumi Shauna Arai’s reference materials for “Immanent Infinite.” Photograph by OK McCausland. 4) Installation view of Megumi Shauna Arai, “Immanent Infinite,” Object & Thing, New York, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Object & Thing. Photograph by Fyodor Shiryaev.
Join us this weekend for the launch of 🌱 FM Nature School! 🔗 in bio for our full schedule of April events ☔️we’ll be opening up registrations for our May events beginning this week ☀️ (one month ahead of each program) #FMNatureSchool
4/6 - Stitching Your Experience with Megumi Shauna Arai @oneflewup : This workshop will intertwine ecology through a walking meditation in Brower Park with tactile making as a communicative form of experience. With guidance and instruction, each participant will get to share their walking experience through patchwork, applique and sewing. What happens when we intentionally take time away from technology and the to-do list to focus on our breath, our step and the elements around us? How does this experience connect to creativity and inspiration? Does this exercise open us to the possibility for a new experience in our relationship to place? WAITLIST ONLY
4/7 Birding Poetry & Power with Indigo Goodson-Fields @indigoindaflow : Nature is for the birds! In this community bird walk, participants will become familiar with our local “backyard birds” and migratory birds and be able to identify them with sight and sound. This walking workshop will allow us to discuss community and bird behavior across themes of migration, symbolism, and more. Each walk will end with a moment of reflection and journaling in response to a writing prompt provided by the artist. WAITLIST ONLY
4/7 Community Garden Cleanup with Field Meridians:
Help support the re-opening of our local community garden with a work day–clearing out debris, pruning overgrowth, light weeding, and repair.
You can read more about the 1100 Bergen Street Community Garden in our interview with one of the co-founders, Hazel Hurley, in our bi-monthly gardening newsletter. RSVP at 🔗
This weekend we’re heading to the Navy Yard to visit the studio of Megumi Shauna Arai (@oneflewup ), a textile artist who explores ideas of borders and belonging in her work. Join us to explore her practice, register at the link in bio!
