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| Yuki Nakamura |
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Born 1971.
Sikoku Island, Japan
I am a Japanese-born sculptor working to create sculptural and installation pieces relating to physical spaces. I create spaces where viewers’ senses transcend sight, experimenting the space in an individual way – thus becoming a whole with the installation. I am also interested in combining conventional and new materials towards the creation of dynamic installation: cross-cultural, multi-faceted contemporary sculptural forms that reflect and challenge our specific time, place, culture, and social environment.
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| 关于此艺术家 |
My work reflects how time and space change in synch with our constantly evolving environment. I consider both the macro and micro worlds and how they shift within the internal, human and subjective perspective, how they become increasingly confused, chaotic and full of turmoil. My work questions the tenuous connection between the two worlds; the internal subjective self and the external world of cultural façade. |
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Hardline Organics
2006 396 x 547 x 610 cm |
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Hardline Organics is an immersive and transformative collaboration work with Craig Miller. Keying in on the concept absurd optimism is an interactive space alive with; sculpture, sound and light. |
Hardline Organics - pods
2006 396 x 547 x 610 cm |
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Hardline Organics is an immersive and transformative collaboration work with Craig Miller. Keying in on the concept absurd optimism is an interactive space alive with; sculpture, sound and light. |
Dream - Suspended
2006 274 x 223 x 142 cm |
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The “Dream” project is a deeply personal work and acknowledges the premature death of my brother at the age of 36. He was a soccer coach and lived his life in Japan. For many boys from my hometown, becoming a professional soccer player is the only way that they can escape small-town life. Each porcelain soccer ball represents the dream of my brother as well as that of the younger boys from Shikoku. A soccer ball for them is like a globe. In that sense it is not a common object but an abstraction of something else. In “Suspended” I use unglazed ceramic casts of soccer balls, all of which are at different stages of deflation. Neon-lit wires in various colors hold the balls at different heights above the floor, making for a uniquely visual experience. |
Dream - Suspended
2006 274 x 223 x 142 cm |
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The “Dream” project is a deeply personal work and acknowledges the premature death of my brother at the age of 36. He was a soccer coach and lived his life in Japan. For many boys from my hometown, becoming a professional soccer player is the only way that they can escape small-town life. Each porcelain soccer ball represents the dream of my brother as well as that of the younger boys from Shikoku. A soccer ball for them is like a globe. In that sense it is not a common object but an abstraction of something else. In “Suspended” I use unglazed ceramic casts of soccer balls, all of which are at different stages of deflation. Neon-lit wires in various colors hold the balls at different heights above the floor, making for a uniquely visual experience. |
Fictional City
2005 22 x 192 x 170 cm |
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During a residency in the Northern Italian town Novara, Nakamura focused on the innocuous city map as a source saturated in meaning. Using the typically irregular city blocks of Novara, Nakamura began to dissect the meaning of boundaries. Forming plaster blocks with the foot plan of the city blocks, but with an elevation irrespective of the actual buildings makeup, Nakamura re-envisioned the town as a series of minimalist blocks sunk in a bed of blue resin. The context is erased, except for the boundaries. Can one recognize the shape of one's own residence if the volume is drastically altered? Boundaries are not the only variable defining a place. |
Red Stair
2003 203 x 76 x 102 cm |
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FASHION is ART is a 4 parts project: runway performance, exhibition, storefront installation, poster-size publication. 19 artists groups have explored a cross-cultural, multi-faceted project that reflects and questions new intersections between art and fashion. In my work, I explore Form: The shape and structure superimposing geometry on the human body transferred my fixation on steps from my usual medium of ceramics to wearable sculpture. |
Trespass
2004 a site specific installation |
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The images Nakamura used for Tespass developed from a recent artist residency at the Chateau de La Napoule in southern France. While at working, she was struck by the growth patterns on a tree in the castle’s courtyard. The patterns evoked the map-like boundaries of her previous work, but as part of a living tree, the lines became a reminder of growth and development. The simple shapes become a juxtaposition of seemingly opposite ideas—boundaries and growth. |
Floating Plaster / City Motion
2006 Hydrocal, DLP Projectors, DVD Players, DVD Laser 274 x 488 x 366 cm |
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Floating Plaster / City Motion is a collaboration project with Robert Campbell: A multi-media installation comprised of video and cast sculpture incorporating multiple video projectors and programmable matrix switchers. The work integrates sculptural formal aesthetics with architectonic video projections of animated imagery toward the creation of an evocative and dynamic installation. Activating a physical Z-axis with projections, image becomes sculpture, and sculpture image through the dynamic interplay between image, motion and form. |
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
EDUCATION
1995-1997 Master of Fine Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1991-1994 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Tokyo, Japan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Suspended, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
2005 Mapping the Moment, Howard House Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHBITIONS
2006 Hardline Organics Part Two – a tale of absurd optimism, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 Fresh, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2005 MA, NAC Japan, Novara Arte Cultura, Novara, Italy
2005 Aqua Art Miami, Miami Beach, FL
2005 Building Tradition: Gifts on Honor of the Northwest Art Collection, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2004 Masquerade, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004 Trespass: A Site Specific Installation, Chateau de La Napoule, La Napoule, France
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| 未来的展览 |
2006 New Works Laboratory, 911 Media Arts Center and Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (upcoming)
2006 Aqua Art Miami, curated by Jess Van Nostrand, Miami Beach, FL (upcoming)
2007 Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, IN (upcoming)
2007 Simple Fragility, Project Room, Howard House Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA (upcoming)
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