Series of Color/ Graphite on paper/ 8”x8”each/ 2009
Black
BrownTuesday, December 8, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
Art work
Be Born/ Lithograph and Intaglio/ 9"x13.5"/ 2009
Nightmare in color/ Intaglio/ 10"x 8"/ 2008
Scissors and Roses in color/ Drypoint/ 4"x6"/ 2008
Scissors and Roses/ Drypoint/ 4"x6"/ 2008
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Artist's Statement
Miki was born in a small city located one hour from Tokyo. She grew up and lived there for eighteen years with her family. Her major influence comes from her family, especially her older sister. They enjoyed playing with crayons on paper after school in their childhood. Miki was impressed with the possibility of expression we as humans possess. After she graduated high school, she thought if she liked to create and express something, she should start. She believes art makes her life happier, so she wants to continue creating art for the future.
One of her characteristics of art is to retrace her memories. She feels like she is being herself because of influences of all her memories in the past. It created and will create her. She has tried to grasp her images or ideas from a point of view but she realized that looking back upon her memories is one of the ways to get a new concept, so she treasures the re-connected ideas from the past. So, her works always reflect a part of her life. She always tries to express the emotional depth and shallowness in her drawing and likes two-dimensional art because it does not have limit in vision. Especially, she loves charcoal drawings. Charcoal is soft and sensitive materials, so it gives her drawing softness. Drawing for her is exploring life and she really enjoys it.
One of her characteristics of art is to retrace her memories. She feels like she is being herself because of influences of all her memories in the past. It created and will create her. She has tried to grasp her images or ideas from a point of view but she realized that looking back upon her memories is one of the ways to get a new concept, so she treasures the re-connected ideas from the past. So, her works always reflect a part of her life. She always tries to express the emotional depth and shallowness in her drawing and likes two-dimensional art because it does not have limit in vision. Especially, she loves charcoal drawings. Charcoal is soft and sensitive materials, so it gives her drawing softness. Drawing for her is exploring life and she really enjoys it.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Metaphorical Self Portrait/ charcoal and pencil/ 16"x40"/ 2008
Lonely/ charcoal/ 40"x26"/ 2008
Self Portrait/ charcoal and pencil/ 40"x26"/ 2008 
A Paper Bag/ charcoal on brown paper/ 26"x19"/ 2007
Color balls and a glass/ colored pencil/ 11"x15"/ 2008
Monochromatic balls/ colored pencil/ 11"x15"/ 2008Friday, October 30, 2009
Art work
Midnight Bird/ Linocut/ 13"x 9.5"/ 2008
Nightmare/ Intaglio/ 10"x 8"/ 2008
Study of Bacon/ Monotype/ 13"x 10"/ 2008Resume
Education:
2010 B.A. Drawing, Fort Hays State University, Hays. KS
Work Experience:
2009
Exhibitions:
2009
"Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition".Moss-Thorns Gallery, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS.
2008
"Annual Student Honors Exhibition". Moss-Thorns Gallery, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS.
"Advanced Drawing Exhibition". Semolino’s cafe, Hays, KS.
2010 B.A. Drawing, Fort Hays State University, Hays. KS
Work Experience:
2009
Service Learning Projects: “Watershed on Wheels”, planning, team.
Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS
Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS
Exhibitions:
2009
"Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition".Moss-Thorns Gallery, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS.
2008
"Annual Student Honors Exhibition". Moss-Thorns Gallery, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS.
"Advanced Drawing Exhibition". Semolino’s cafe, Hays, KS.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Postmodern
A. Postmodern is art that contradicts modern art. Concept is more important than theory or philosphy.
B. Feminism is considered Postmodern art because they are focused on cultural issue or political movement.
C. I picked Lorna Simpson. her work is Postmodern because the subjects she uses is social or racial things. visually, her works are strong and catch viewer's attentions. that let them to think about the issue.
D. Jay Corey, His work on the drawing center is like a animated human. I really like how he use colors. the straight lined colors give the fugure interesting movement.
B. Feminism is considered Postmodern art because they are focused on cultural issue or political movement.
C. I picked Lorna Simpson. her work is Postmodern because the subjects she uses is social or racial things. visually, her works are strong and catch viewer's attentions. that let them to think about the issue.
D. Jay Corey, His work on the drawing center is like a animated human. I really like how he use colors. the straight lined colors give the fugure interesting movement.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
New Mexico Project
My first idea is a long bed which 5 or more people can lie down together.
we were sleeping inside of mother before we were born, but we will never go back there. so, I thought it would be interesting if bed is displayed outside and we can lie down on that.
If I suppose the earth is inside of mother, then people on the bed could be small small cells.
I thought outside could be inside.
It is a wooden sculptural work, but I also want use some kinds of soft material for pillows or other parts. I want it to be a life size bed but not too functional bed.
I don't have any sketch yet, but I will upload it later.
we were sleeping inside of mother before we were born, but we will never go back there. so, I thought it would be interesting if bed is displayed outside and we can lie down on that.
If I suppose the earth is inside of mother, then people on the bed could be small small cells.
I thought outside could be inside.
It is a wooden sculptural work, but I also want use some kinds of soft material for pillows or other parts. I want it to be a life size bed but not too functional bed.
I don't have any sketch yet, but I will upload it later.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Expressionism & Cognitivism
A. Expressionism is a theory of art that artists are inspired by their feelings or experiences and convey their emotion to viewer. Cognitivism is art that makes viewer think something about the world. and viewer can learn something from cognitive works.
B.
C. Collingwood thinks art is collaboration between artist and viewer. so, the finished work of art must be re-created in viewer's mind. He want the viewer to use their imagination for it and feel artist expression that is re-created in their mind.
D.
E. I chose Margo Majewska. I really like her sculptural paper work. I feel a lot of movement and the space btween paper and paper or wall is so beautiful. I am plannning to use fabric and paper for this project, so I want to use the space of them well.
B.
C. Collingwood thinks art is collaboration between artist and viewer. so, the finished work of art must be re-created in viewer's mind. He want the viewer to use their imagination for it and feel artist expression that is re-created in their mind.
D.
E. I chose Margo Majewska. I really like her sculptural paper work. I feel a lot of movement and the space btween paper and paper or wall is so beautiful. I am plannning to use fabric and paper for this project, so I want to use the space of them well.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Chap2 Realism
a) To me, Realistic art is something that looks photographical images. Artists in realism capture subject matters using his or her vision, and convey what they saw. They recreate all aspecet of the image with no imagination.
b) Plato would think good art should be reality and beauty. To plato, art should be not personal things. he is thinkin art is promoting ideal human society.
c) I don't think Plato would like Koon's work and he would say it is not art at all because of the subject matters of Koon's work. However, most of Koon's work have realistic, but also they have more his creativity in it. So, his workd might fit in Plato's concept.
d) I think Aristotle and Plato's idea is pretty much the same. Good art should be powerful to convey feelings or emotion to people. The only different between them is that Aristotel thinks art is valuable but Plato does not.
e) I think Obscene art is not contradiction. Art can be anything that artists want to convey to people. To me, Obscene is one of the subject matters which has a strong power in art.
f) I don't think vivid sxual images are more obscene that vivid images of violece, poverty, display of extreme wealth or sickness. Because it is part of us or our daily life. It just depends on the viewer what they think. to me, however, sex, poverty and sleeping that could be sickness(three big desires) are hard subject matter to look at. these are depth of obscene.
g) I picked Nancy Cohen. the subject matter of her art works in drawing center is human's hands. she express a lot of different feelings or tension using hands. I really like how she mix the fabrics into one piece. The colors, lines, and movements I really like that.
I am using some fabrics and plexiglass for this project. so, Im trying to express my feelings with fabric as she does.
b) Plato would think good art should be reality and beauty. To plato, art should be not personal things. he is thinkin art is promoting ideal human society.
c) I don't think Plato would like Koon's work and he would say it is not art at all because of the subject matters of Koon's work. However, most of Koon's work have realistic, but also they have more his creativity in it. So, his workd might fit in Plato's concept.
d) I think Aristotle and Plato's idea is pretty much the same. Good art should be powerful to convey feelings or emotion to people. The only different between them is that Aristotel thinks art is valuable but Plato does not.
e) I think Obscene art is not contradiction. Art can be anything that artists want to convey to people. To me, Obscene is one of the subject matters which has a strong power in art.
f) I don't think vivid sxual images are more obscene that vivid images of violece, poverty, display of extreme wealth or sickness. Because it is part of us or our daily life. It just depends on the viewer what they think. to me, however, sex, poverty and sleeping that could be sickness(three big desires) are hard subject matter to look at. these are depth of obscene.
g) I picked Nancy Cohen. the subject matter of her art works in drawing center is human's hands. she express a lot of different feelings or tension using hands. I really like how she mix the fabrics into one piece. The colors, lines, and movements I really like that.
I am using some fabrics and plexiglass for this project. so, Im trying to express my feelings with fabric as she does.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Beauty vs. Replusion
A. I think good art have a good subject that can be shared with people to discuss about. technically, they should have a great skill and emotional expression which the artist want to convey to people. http://www.mdwoodward.com/ This is the example of good art. I think his artwork is great. Firstly, I thought his expression of emptiness and darkness which hides in the object is great. that attracts me a lot. the dynamic objects could be Expressionism.
It is hard to say clearly what bad art is. I can not say "I do not like that, so it is bad art." It is important to judge work of art without own biased judgment. I think one of my definition of bad art is that subject is unclear and they are not fascinated. I think beauty is the highest visual pleasure. Then, I think it's bad art if the object makes viewer focus on too much for it. I can not explain it well, but here is my explain site http://www.akiramania.com/shodo/shodo03.html. He used his blood and puke for calligraphy. it looks interesting but it is hard to understand the subject and what the relation among the object and calligraphy and the words that he wrote.
B. Honorific art is defined as essential aspects of artwork. they are a living concept and have historical aspects in it.
C. There is a subject in any artwork, even they are good or not. Subject is essential aspects when you define classificatory definition of art.
D. Sorry, I have no idea about that.
E. I picked Madeleine Hope Arthurs. marthurs.com
This time, I am expressing beauty and replusion using animals. I really like her decorative art. I have drawn animals only a couple of times. I tried to catch the animal's characteristic.
When I think about what the difference between beauty and replusion is, I felt beauty is replusion. All we have a different interpretation about beauty and replusion. For me, beauty is one of the object or notion that fascinate me and there is a process to be beauty for anything. For example, it is simple to understand beauty compared to a newborn baby. A newborn baby is beauty for me. However, a grand-grand mother's face is more beauty for me because she have a lot of experiences in her entire life, and that makes her beauty. That is the process to be beauty. In her process, she may be replusion sometime. The process that guides you beauty or replusion is important. So, I used butterflies for that.
Sorry, I messed up. I could not put together my thoughts well.
It is hard to say clearly what bad art is. I can not say "I do not like that, so it is bad art." It is important to judge work of art without own biased judgment. I think one of my definition of bad art is that subject is unclear and they are not fascinated. I think beauty is the highest visual pleasure. Then, I think it's bad art if the object makes viewer focus on too much for it. I can not explain it well, but here is my explain site http://www.akiramania.com/shodo/shodo03.html. He used his blood and puke for calligraphy. it looks interesting but it is hard to understand the subject and what the relation among the object and calligraphy and the words that he wrote.
B. Honorific art is defined as essential aspects of artwork. they are a living concept and have historical aspects in it.
C. There is a subject in any artwork, even they are good or not. Subject is essential aspects when you define classificatory definition of art.
D. Sorry, I have no idea about that.
E. I picked Madeleine Hope Arthurs. marthurs.com
This time, I am expressing beauty and replusion using animals. I really like her decorative art. I have drawn animals only a couple of times. I tried to catch the animal's characteristic.
When I think about what the difference between beauty and replusion is, I felt beauty is replusion. All we have a different interpretation about beauty and replusion. For me, beauty is one of the object or notion that fascinate me and there is a process to be beauty for anything. For example, it is simple to understand beauty compared to a newborn baby. A newborn baby is beauty for me. However, a grand-grand mother's face is more beauty for me because she have a lot of experiences in her entire life, and that makes her beauty. That is the process to be beauty. In her process, she may be replusion sometime. The process that guides you beauty or replusion is important. So, I used butterflies for that.
Sorry, I messed up. I could not put together my thoughts well.
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