The Dreamery
Collaborations by Hibiki Miyazaki and David Joel Kitcher
Augen Gallery, Dec 4th – 27th, 2025

Reception for the Artists: Saturday, December 6, 1:00–4:00 pm,  Artists Talk at 1:00 pm

This collaborative drawing project brings together two first-generation American artists, David Joel Kitcher and Hibiki Miyazaki. Both artists share deeply personal life experiences, including growing up with immigrant parents and navigating the challenges of trauma, neurodiversity, mental illness, and addiction within their families.

The artists created a body of work on paper that merges their distinct drawing styles while exploring common themes related to healing and cultural identity. Paper, with its tactile and delicate qualities, serves as an ideal surface for exploring vulnerability, fragility, and memory. It invites layering, erasure, and revision; processes that mirror the complexity of healing.

Throughout the project, the artists exchanged drawings back and forth, building upon each other’s work in their individual studios. They continued this exciting exchange through regular studio visits until the pieces were complete.

The Dreamery is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council and
the Office of Arts & Culture.