Sachie Koyama
Matrix of the Mind: Contemporary Fine Art by Japanese Artists
March 1 - March 22, 2011
Reception:
Thursday March 3, 2011 6-8 PM
Press Release
Award-winning artist Sachie Koyama crafts beautiful artworks that convey an appreciation for imagination and wonder. Like a strong breeze articulated by fallen leaves swept up in the current, Koyama’s images are composed of small multihued lines or dots flurrying around the picture, compelled by some unseen force. Her artistic approach is neither abstract expressionist nor impressionist, but more akin to a visual symphony – intuitive and visceral. Using pencil, watercolor, or oils, her works are radiant and airy, employing a palette that favors pastels of canary, magenta, and azure with slight modulations of tone. Evoking natural phenomena like stars, water, and wind, the viewer is placed within the scene rather than a detached observer. Koyama does not intend to render our natural world, but rather provide a visionary experience within it. “Once I got into that world from a blank canvas,” she explains, “I just tried to follow my intuition and…I continued painting to get the vision which no one has ever seen.”
Sachie Koyama lives and works in Japan.
Artist Statement
While I was working on recent works, I mainly cared about the impression of colors. When I started painting them, it was like going on a journey to the world of imagination and creativity. Once I got into that world from a blank canvas, I just tried to follow my feeling/intuition and continued to put layers of colors on the canvas, even though I was not sure where I was going or what I could reach. I chose my materials according to the texture of the images in my mind, adapting to the nature of the experience. I continued painting to attain the vision which nobody has ever seen.
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