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Kei Yasuda

I make my art with pencil.  Tenderness, rules, nature, ordinary, marks and letters all make my art.  My 2D-art varies from 1000mm×2000mm and bigger.  I also make zine.  

1990 Born in Chiba, Japan

2011 Entered Tokyo University of the Arts

2015 Currently being enrolled in Tokyo University of the Arts

Tokyo Artist 

Aya Ando

I want to feel to the sense of touch that we can't see . I believe there is "sense of tough",even though we can't see or we can't touch . For example , like a bone structure of human and building or like a section of a rock that appears when we chopped the rock in half. 

I also believe this sense of touch represents time whatever component is . I think it consists the existence of time . For example , tree ring inside the the tree presents the time of years, tree have grown. 

We can't see this time, and we can't touch this time , but this time that we can't see or touch will lead to our memory and remembrance. 

We can't remember things that we have never seen or touched or thought . But my art work tries to draw this remembrance through sense of touch and my passion lies here, and to touch the time and remembrance of an object.

 

1992 Born in Tokyo

2011~2013 Aoyamagakuin Women's  Junior College    

2013~ Tama Art UniVersity

Ayano Enomoto

I have paid particular attention to the cities that have been built by artifacts such as buildings and machines. A city is inorganic but it constantly changes as if it is a living and large organism. I would like to find out nature or structure to explain formative principles of natural objects, which would be similar to the fractal structure, in the society astonishingly metabolizes and changes from moment to moment.In the process, I hope that my expression would lead to a new conversion of value.

My base motif is "cracking".I am pursuing a painting expression to represent the nature of three-dimensional pictorial objects on the two-dimensional flat space. I want to appeal to audiences a visual transition between the substantial feeling (a real image) that pigments have and a virtual image that would be born by my painting.

It is a very concrete expression in the sense that mimics cracking; however, it is my attempt in painting expression that should bring an abstract meaning, "not anywhere but everywhere" by strictly mimicking the forms of cracking.

Eiko Yokoyama

Eiko Yokoyama is Tama Art University a grad school student.

I make a study of outside of the box form of "the book".

 

1992  Born in Aichi

2010 group exhibition "chu-nin"

2014  Graduated from Tama Art University

XiaoYang Wang (Alex Wang)

I use this works to describe today's ecological environment”in China.

There is no grand narrative, but thought-provoking story.  The inspiration of this works comes from three of the most famous literature in the western civilization—Plato’s <Republic>,Sophocles’s <Oedipus The King> and Aeschylus’s <Prometheus Bound>.

The way that I make this works is similar to the method of English study in China, using Chinese words rather than the international phonetic system to help memorize the pronunciation, that Chinese use all the time while are ashamed to speak of. 

In this works, you may smell the trace of chasing games between Chinese and Western culture everywhere. But these traces picture the exact story happens in China nowadays.

 

<education backaground>

2007.03 arrived in Japan

2009.03 graduated from Meitoku Gijuku Junior & Senior high school

2013.03 graduated from Kyoto Seika University Faculty of Art Oil Painting Course

2015.03 graduated from Musashino Art University Graduate School of Art and Design                                 Master’s Degree Program imaging Art and Sciences Course

 

Eriko Kuroda

Theme is "memory". 

About people, feelings, and many events.

I express them as "planet" as seen from the island called "me".

Representation method is the photopolymer prints. Base is collage and drawing.

 

She is from Nagasaki Japan.

graduated from Musashino Art  University (oil painting / Printmaking )

Midori Arai

I would like to make art that accesses directly into viewer’s visual memory to pull out one’s real human nature.  I will quest through the human nature on the outside as well as the root inside.

 

1992 Born in Ibaraki, Japan

2011 Entered Tokyo Zokei University, Painting Major

2012 CCM Project

     “Park Your Art, Not Car” (Prefectural Makuhari Parking 2 CCM)

2014 Tokyo Zokei University, Kondo Seminar Students Exhibition

     “Walk with Angle” TURNER GALLERY

     Yujiro Miyazaki’s Group Exhibition

     “Lucy’s Sky” (GENDAI HIGHTS)

Ai Ohashi

It is very interesting to me to look at contingency and paroxysm caused by linking some scenes. 

My art works are a set of practices reinterpretating each scene.

That scene is linked and conected in the mutual way,generating a unique sight. 

 

2013-  Oil Painting Course,Jyoshibi University of the Arts,Kanagawa,japan

Yumi Takeda

My art is illusive.  I put together what come to my mind whenever I give myself theme to work on.

This time, I am working on the theme “what we need to do to live”.  

I started thinking about 9 things in random order.

Let’s take a look at each one of these things.

 

What you eat makes your body.  Your body is your building.  Plants or animals, they can only exist on sacrifice of other lives.  

Finding food is not easy.  Generation after generation, they learn from experiences.  However they mistakenly eat what is poisonous to them and they stick their tongue out from its burning sensation.

Eating food sometimes means cannibalism.  Beyond one’s limit of hunger sensation, one tries to live anyway he can.  When he feats on the same species as he is, and if he feels even a tiny bit of sin, will he feel the pain himself, just like being cut by knife and fork?  

“eating”

 

When in mother’s womb, babies bath themselves into its amniotic fluid.  New lives definitely need liquid.  Water is mother of all living things.  Culture.  Mother ocean.

If one exists without water, that must be the beginning of extraterrestrial.

Milk is also fluid.

We all drink foam of double helix of DNA, the source of life itself.

“drinking”

 

Human can never live outside the atmosphere.

Holding breath for too long, we die even in the atmosphere.

I think our lung air sac, which doesn’t look as cute as grapes to say the least, is seeking a peaceful, quiet place, a very unique dimension.  

And,

being captive by the atmosphere as well.

“breathing”

 

New born sprout is often crushed in the hands of its old dream.

The hands often hold grudge and crush new born hopes and dreams without reason.

However a few sprouts of dreams make it out of their hands and they start growing in such deserted land.  They are not just beautiful.  They have sharp spines that fight against those who try to crush them.

And, now impossible becomes possible.

Just like a young green rose.

“dreaming”

 

Born in different country.  Raised in different culture.  Looking at different colors.

Some are fascinated by the fireworks in the sky, some by the coldness of iron.

Brave heart will become a sward to cut open the window of opportunity.

No matter how winding the roads are, I wish every destination shines as gold.

“decision making”

 

Some lived before us.

We all learn from the past.

Every failure is in a process of being better.

Could ancient animals ever imagine how their descendant would look like today?

Let’s together the past and squeeze out a drop of vague state of being called “life” and let it drawn in the stork-colored storm.

I believe in their future and dream about what they grow into.

“growing”

 

Think about the future.  Live the present.  Look back into the past.

The harder I think about it, the more number of blood vessel in my brain is pulled whenever I think about it.  If it doesn’t exist in the present or if it’s beyond our imagination, wouldn’t it be called “zero”?  Somewhere between the time and space, I exist just like marks on the map.  And I’m lost and don’t know who I might be.  No matter how many times I destroy it, at the end of the day it is myself in the mirror, and I can’t even warp through spaces.

The truth is that we only rely on the past.

The truth is that we only stand right by someone else’s thoughts.

“existing”

 

I close my eyes and let my body rest.  I was once told that with my eyes closed, I can see what I can’t see with my naked eyes.

Behind my eye lit, the colors get reversed and energy gets compressed just like the beginning of universe.

Let’s go back to fertilized egg.

No one is eternal.  We simply want peace of mind.

But on the other hand, the compressed energy level keeps raising and grows its roots, waiting for the release.

“resting”

 

Can a machine feel the heat of blood that explosively circulates around the body?  Can it feel the explosion when the compressed energy gets disintegrated?

The skin is their metal.  The blood vessels are their copper wires.  The blood is the unknown red boiling liquid.

Blink unconsciously takes energy.  It uses more energy when organs are to move.

The more activities to be engaged, the more possibilities we can engage in.

When the energy inside our blood becomes visible, I’m pretty sure the blood looks much whiter in color than burning red.  

“moving”

 

1992 Born in Miyagi, Japan

Ever since I was a child, I am enthused by my own desire “I wanna draw!”, and I kept making art throughout my kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, high school and college.

2013 Exhibited at a college art exhibition

2014 Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Painting, Painting Course

Currently resides in Japan

Hitomi Hasumi

For example, I want to do brushing by using my body movement.

I want to capture the change of expression of my face`s by color pigment.

It’s like that, taking breath deep inside into my body, which help me to feel, the depth of emotion and psychology of my mind, then naturally it will reflect  on my work.

 

I can't understand everything.

But, I want to approach for understanding with anything.

 

Born in 1988 in Saitama, Japan

2008-2011 B.A. Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts 

2011-2013 M.A. Oil Painting Technik und Material, Tokyo University of the Arts 

2013-2014 Staatliche Akademie der Bildende Künste Stuttgart,Germany ( Prof. Holger Bunk)

Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan

Kaori Hamada

He exists here.

 

 

1987

Born in Yashirojima,Yamaguchi Prefecture.

 

2014

Graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (the present Tokyo University of the Arts),Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting, Oil Painting Course.

 

Received the “Mr.0 Memoriai Prize”for her graduation work.

 

2014

Entered in the Master Course in Oil Painting of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

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