When was kako ueda born

To me they are violent, quiet, sinister, beautiful, tactile His inkblot drawings and collages are also a gem. What is great about Mr. Connor is precisely that he didn't stick to one medium, but explored and experimented with a bunch of different mediums.

That tells me how free and fearless he was as an artist. Although he used different mediums there seems to be a kind of a theme or thread that is universal in his artworks- a feeling of mystery and the interconnectedness of the parts to the whole.

Dreaming of Foetus , hand cut Washi Japanese paper, h: 35 in. For example, do you do any preliminary drawings before starting a piece or do you rely on intuition? Perhaps you could discuss some of your methods? KU: For example, Dreaming of Foetus came to me when I was looking at the wall patterns in some magazines. The image literally just appeared in my head-- I saw the whole image in my mind's eye.

Later I sketched out what I saw and started cutting. I could say that I come up with the images rather intuitively and I normally sketch out these images on the paper to be cut. BS: I read that you have been working on two installation pieces this year. Can you discuss those pieces? I first started making the part that represented death, but I knew the final piece would end up containing both life and death elements. I wanted to make a totem of my family--a somewhat not totally autobiographical piece.

As I understand totem-- it is an emblem of a family, tribe or clan. It is not an object of worship. It is more like a visual object to show what your family represents by using symbolic images such as the images of ancestor animals. Some of the important incidents happened in the family history could also be incorporated visually. It is your desire to expose your work to a wider audience. What steps have you taken toward that path? Will you be involved with any exhibits outside of NYC in the near future?

KU: Actually my desire to branch outside of NY state is already happening this year: I will be in two group shows--one in Lincoln, Massachusetts and the other in Easton, Pennsylvania. Both will be opening around the beginning of Sept.

The first one is a group show of labor intensive drawings at DeCordova Museum and the latter is at the Grossman Gallery on Lafayette College campus. And after my solo show in NYC, I will take those two installation works to Helsinki, Finland to participate in the group show at the contemporary art museum Kiasma. I actually get invited to shows through my website a lot so there's no denying the power of internet. BS: Speaking of the internet, how have you utilized the internet in order to reach a wider audience?

Do you frequent any art sites? KU: Besides having my own website, my pieces are in the Drawing Center's online registry, as well as at the Artists Space online site, and Neoimages. Allure , hand cut black paper, h: 50 in.

What did you enjoy about those experiences? Kentucky Folk Artists. Paul Jansen Artist. Keith Buckner Artist. Top Hip Hop Artists Martha Riggenbach Artist. Furniture Designed By Artists. Xiaolu Artist Biography. The exhibition focuses on the notion that the average art viewer spends 27 secounds looking at a work of art , highlighting artworks which encourage viewers to spend more time with it. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.

Learn about the artist and see available works for sale. Nationality: Japanese. Kako Ueda Biography - MutualArt. Their work was featured in several exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the Foley Gallery and the Museum of Craft and Design. She has been living and making art in Brooklyn since the mid 90s. Faces seems to use a range of symbolic values gathered from the past to the present as well as from the insect world to outer spaces.

Could you talk about your relationship to the images, symbols and impressions in your work, and in this work in particular? Kako Ueda: I have always been interested in the tension between nature organic beings and culture man-made , the ever shifting line between them.

My keen interest in organic beings humans, animals, insects, plants stems from the fact that they come into this world, go through stages of transformation growth and decay , then their lives come to the ultimate end.

Knowing how much our activities as human beings affect every corner of the earth on many levels, the question would be: Can we find a piece of nature which is "totally natural" in this world anymore? There are multiple thoughts and ideas going though my mind that prompted making the piece "Faces":.

At the same time, though, we say something like: "Do not judge a book by its cover," to remind ourselves that the outside does not always reflect what is inside. This ambivalence is interesting to me, and the face represents the focal point of this ambivalence. We now know that there can be many sides to our personalities, and we tap into these when we want to and need to, in order to function smoothly in our everyday life. We change depending on a situation, everyday, as we grow older, but somehow retain the sense of "me-ness" all through our lives, which is a wonder to me.

Our modern culture is obsessed with appearance face, body shape, how one dresses , which continuously manifests itself in the movies, TV, internet, Instagram taking a "selfie" , billboards, magazines, that surround us.

An enormous amount of time and money is poured into this seemingly endless physical self-reflection. The premise of this work was to have multiple compounding faces of people, animals, etc.

Some faces are hidden, not so easily seen at first but with careful inspection and time, they reveal themselves to the viewer. LI: Could you a little about how and what it means to cut paper to create imagery? So I swim in these three worlds and, personally, I like it a lot.