KANAKO NAMURA – LIKE WATCHING ICE MELT
December 2 – January 27, 2017
Kanako Namura
(Osaka, Japan, 1967)
Lives and works in Osaka, Japan.
Kanako Namura's work focuses on the investigation of the pictorial possibilities of materials such as paper or confetti. Her most recent works explore confetti, as a representative element of the celebrations, but also as an element full of pictorial and chromatic possibilities. Upon arriving in Mexico, she discovered that confetti its recycled and dyed paper, which led her to explore with it. Her work is a mixture of traditions that would seem totally opposite as east and west, but that converge in his art in an exceptional way.
She began her studies in graphic design at the Osaka University of Arts. In 1991 she completed a second degree in Fiber Arts at the Kansas City Art Institute. Later, in 2012 she completed a master's degree in arts at the San Francisco University.
Among her individual exhibitions stand out: How to play in the park at Atelier 1616 (Osaka, 2020); Like Watching Ice Melt, Galería Karen Huber (Mexico City, 2017); Accumulation, Galería Karen Huber (Mexico City, 2015); Festive, Yebisu Art Labo Gallery (Nagoya, 2015); Edging away, Yebisu Art Labo Gallery (Nagoya, 2008) and Strokes-weaving the body in and out of water, Yebisu Art Labo Gallery (Nagoya, 2007).
She has collectively shown her works in exhibitions such as Straight from Mexico City, Ruiz-Healy Art (San Antonio, 2016); Extrapolation of Language, Galería Karen Huber (Mexico City, 2014); New Acquisitions, Don Soker Contemporary Art (San Francisco, 2013); Gallery Selections, Don Soker Contemporary Art (San Francisco, 2012) and The Martin Wong 2011 Student Scholarship Exhibition, Martin Wong Gallery (San Francisco, 2011).
(Osaka, Japón, 1967)
Vive y trabaja en Osaka, Japón.
El trabajo de Kanako Namura se centra en la investigación de las posibilidades pictóricas de materiales como el papel, el confeti o el hielo. Sus obras más recientes exploran el confeti, como elemento representativo de la festividad, pero también como elemento lleno de posibilidades pictóricas y cromáticas. Al llegar a México descubrió que el confeti es papel reciclado y teñido, lo que la llevo a explorar con este material. Su obra es una mezcla de tradiciones que parecerían totalmente opuestas como oriente y occidente, pero que convergen en su arte de forma excepcional.
Comenzó sus estudios en diseño gráfico en la Universidad de Artes de Osaka. En 1991 realizó una segunda licenciatura en Fiber Arts en el Kansas City Art Institute. Después, en 2012, realizó una maestría en artes en la San Francisco University.
Entre sus exposiciones individuales destacan How to play in the park en Atelier 1616 (Osaka,2020); Like Watchig Ice Melt, Galería Karen Huber (CDMX, 2017); Acumulación, Galería Karen Huber (CDMX,2015); Festive, Yebisu Art Labo Gallery (Nagoya, 2015); Edging away, Yebisu Art Labo Gallery, (Nagoya, 2008); Strokes-weaving the body in and out of water, Yebisu Art Labo Gallery (Nagoya, 2007).
Colectivamente ha mostrado sus obras en exposiciones como Straight from Mexico City, Ruiz-Healy Art (San Antonio, 2016); Extrapolación del Lenguaje, Galería Karen Huber (CDMX, 2014); New Acquisitions, Don Soker Contemporary Art (San Francisco, 2013); Gallery Selections, Don Soker Contemporary Art (San Francisco, 2012); The Martin Wong 2011 Student Scholarship Exhibition, Martin Wong Gallery
(San Francisco, 2011).
