Joy To The World

Curated by Yuko Nii, Assisted by Germania Reyes
Show Dates: Sat. Dec. 14, 2024 – Jan 11, 2025
Opening Reception: Sat. Dec. 14, 2024 3-5 PM
Gallery Hours: Sat. & Sun. 1-5 PM

PARTICIPANTS IN THE SHOW: Ricardo Arango, Silvia Aviles, Ayako Bando, Lisa Boemer, Linda Butti, Charles Compo, Christopher Craig, Val Dyshlov, Deborah Friedkin, Glen Goodenough, Gaelle Hintzy-Marcell, Hilaida Minoso, Miho Hiranouchi, Drew Maillard, Rachel Mondshine, Ponnapa
Prakkamakul, Jennifer Primosch, Darcy Rose-Ng, Nobuko Saji, Yuko K.

“Joy to the World” show is to Celebrate the Holiday Season with IMAGINATIVE, BEAUTIFUL, POSITIVE, ECLECTIC, JOYOUS, FUN ART. Besides artists works, we added toys, dolls, and artifacts from the Yuko Nii Foundation collections.

Witnessing today’s worsening environmental disasters and the clearly divided social, economical, political world, are we facing the end of the world soon? Or, can we expect to see brighter future in our lifetime? We know that previous generations experienced unthinkable miseries in their life times, but they have overcome. What helped to improve the conditions? How did they resolve the hardships?

Some American economists and environmentalists have stated their positive outlook on the American economy based historical facts.

The American Economist and Author, Stephen Moore detailed the ways in which Americans were better off at the end of the 20th century, as paraphrased here: The latter part of the 19th century was an era of tuberculosis, typhoid, sanitariums, child labor, child death, horses, horse manure, candles, 12- hour work days, Jim Crow laws, tenements, slaughter- houses, and outhouses. Lynchings, not just of blacks were common. (In the south 11 Italians were lynched in one month.) To live to 50 was to count one’s blessings.

“We step upon the threshold of 1900…facing a brighter dawn of civilization.” — New York Times, January 1, 1900. The central premise of this study is that there has been more improvement in the human condition for people living in the United States in this century than for all people in all previous centuries of human history combined. The European Jews, the Russians, and the Chinese experienced dreadful episodes of tranny under Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.
When one considers the age of the planet, the 20th century has been a momentary flash in time. As we move into the 21st century, most Americas who are considered poor today nave routine access to a qually or tood, nealth care, consumer products, entertainment, communications, ana transponallon that even the Vanderbilts, the Carnegies, the Rockefeller’s, and 19th- century European royalty, with all their combined wealth, could not have afforded.

American Economist and environmental optimist, Julian L. Simon believed that the human mind is the “ultimate resource” and that humanity can overcome scarcity through innovation and that human ingenuity is the ultimate resource that can lead to increase supply, greater efficiency, and the development of substitutes. For example, aluminum cans are now less than half an ounce, and we use coal, oil and gas instead of killing whales for lamp oil.

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