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Fumiko Amano : Sonic Landscapes
October 14 - November 11
Live Painting 2004 Series el 001, 48" x 96", Mixed media on panel
Special Closing reception:
Saturday, November 11th 6 – 9 p.m.
Featuring artist talk and live painting by Fumiko Amano
and special cello performance by Marina Peterson
Fumiko Amano , the quintessential Renaissance woman, draws on unique life experiences and all of her creative faculties to produce magical and alluring mosaics of media. Amano is a multi-talented, multi-cultural artist who subtly channels years of interest and dedication to all facets of popular culture into each creation. This tastemaker and siren of the Los Angeles scene holds a mirror to our lives and our city to produce this exceptional collection.
Please join us for a closing reception featuring live painting accompanied by acclaimed cellist, Marina Peterson as she plays improvisations. Fumiko will begin the evening with a short discussion of the works followed by the live painting and performance.
Lawrence Asher Gallery is located at 5820 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, across the street from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and adjacent to the Craft and Folk Art Museum. Free parking is available across the street behind 5858 Wilshire Boulevard. Enter on Stanley Ave. For more information please call 323.935.9100
The Artist
Fumiko Amano was born in Tokyo , Japan in 1968. She has been exploring various mediums to express herself since she was a child. She started taking piano lessons at three, and she was composing music by seven. By the age of ten, Amano published her first poetry book with her own ink drawings. In 1987, she attended Toyo Women's College in Tokyo as an English literature major and joined a theater club in school. At that time, she was fascinated by contemporary theater directed by Yukio Ninagawa and Juro Kara (the most influential Japanese theater directors). This led Amano to move to the United States to study more about contemporary theater arts.
Amano attended the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point where she studied visual art, music recording, theater arts and performing arts for four and a half years. At age 23 she gave her first performance art piece utilizing a big mixed media painting (7' x 35') which was used as a musical score. She graduated from UWSP in 1993 with a BA in Art & Design-Painting/Printmaking. Soon after, she moved to San Francisco where she started incorporating beat poetry, architecture, Japanese comics, dreams and sound into her paintings.
In 1997, in search of a new environment to create sonic landscapes, Amano traveled extensively, first to Rio de Janeiro , then on to New York , Miami and Los Angeles where she finally settled down.
Her atmospheric paintings, created as visualizations of sound/dream/organic forms, have been exhibited in San Francisco , New York , L.A. , and Korea . Her recent works were exhibited at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Gallery Revisited, and LACMA Rental and Sales Gallery. She is a member of the group Pharmaka (pharmaka-art.org).
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Lawrence Asher Gallery | 5820 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 100 | Los Angeles, CA 90036
Tel.: 323.935.9100 | Fax: 323.964.7100
