Fumiko’s work can be seen at the Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London, March 14-18th 2012. We are in Booth A3. Please contact ArtDog London if you would like free tickets to this event.
I am obsessively fascinated with color, texture, textile design, and form, although most of the images and inspiration I find for art are drawn from my childhood background.
I grew up in the Japanese countryside, near the edge of a pond thriving in bio-diversity. I would spend long summer days collecting all manner of insects, leaves and stones to escape my isolation.
After attending Art University in Kyoto, I moved to New York City in 2001, and was strongly influenced by the urban experience; how metropolitan living tends toward disconnection and results in an existence bereft of intimacy.
Through the making of art, I engage this disconnection: from the community of humankind, and from the natural world.
Working on paper allows me to create different layers of acrylic paint, ink, graphite and oil-pastel; in the overlay of various surfaces and visual effects resulting from this process, I can suggest the passage of time and recollection of memory.
Education
2001 -2007 Studied painting under Sonia Gechtoff, figurative drawing under Costa Vavagiakis, printmaking under William Behnken and Kathy Carraccio at the National Academy of Fine Art, (New York, NY)
2000 Graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design (Kyoto, Japan)
1998 Studied design art at the Sugii Art institution (Mie, Japan)
1997 Studied general art at the Ito Art Institution (Mie, Japan)