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Published: October 31 2008 |
Artist Minako Abe's process begins by importing images of landscapes into a computer. By twisting and skewing the original image, everyday scenes are distorted into a panoply of unexpected shapes and colors. Abe then uses these modified digital images to create masking layers and rolls color onto her canvases in broad strokes. It is this technique and choice of a roller over a brush that give Abe's canvases their smooth matte textures. If likened to the human face, in Abe's paintings we find a full range of expressive emotion from sorrow to anger to glee. Through Abe's deliberate process of distortion the viewer is reintroduced to the abundant wealth of expression latent in the scenery that surrounds us every day.
Biography of Minako Abe 1974 Born in Chiba, Japan 2000 Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University, Painting Department 2004 Graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Master Course Lives and works in Tokyo
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2006 Base Gallery, Tokyo 2008 Base Gallery, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions 2004 "The Graduation Works Exhibition", The University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo 2007 landschaft, Roentgenwerke, Tokyo 2007 "Young Japanese Landscape", MOYA, Vienna
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