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Fumiyo Yoshikawa Exhibit from Nov.5th 2012-Feb.3rd 2013
The Art of
Fumiyo Yoshikawa
A Place Where Memories and Thoughts are Shared
at
Berkeley Public Library
First Floor Catalog Lobby
2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, CA94704
510-981-6100
November 5th, 2012 – February 3rd, 2013
Artist’s Reception
Sunday, November11th from 2PM to 4PM
Artist
Statement
A
Place Where Memories and Thoughts are Shared
My art work is based on traditional Japanese art
methods, such as sumi-e and nihonga. Sumi-e is a unique form of Asian art that has
produced some of the world’s finest masterpieces of ink painting. Originating
in China and having its spiritual basis in Zen Buddhism, this form of
expressing nature’s colors through shades of black ink monochrome has been
popular in China, Korea and Japan for many centuries. Nihonga
literally means Japanese painting. In
the narrowest definition, nihonga is
a particular painting style that utilizes Japanese pigments and binder with
traditional tools and technique. I value the labor intensive procedures required
by Nihonga because the manual labor
itself serves as a meditation and enables me to concentrate on my paintings.
By combining both abstract and figurative paintings my
aim is to create a realm in which everyone’s memories and thoughts are shared,
exchanged, connected and sometimes combined, as they are in a library. My figurative paintings stimulate memories or the
subconscious; the abstract paintings symbolically express thoughts or philosophies
that are mixed together and shared. Some of the
shapes of my abstract paintings are inspired by images of human brains or
neurons. Both types of paintings are
related and support each other to give form to this special place.
I am happy to be able to exhibit my world of art in
the Berkeley Public Library. In books
there is a certain sensation, not found in the Internet, strongly related to my
art, which values man-made works.
Fumiyo Yoshikawa
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