Saki Kishimoto
Saki straddles between art world and media, youth culture,
trying to bridge the gap with solid work. She was born in Tokyo,
Japan in1977. Now she lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Saki works on multi-medium which encompasses painting, drawing, mixed mediums
and 3-dimensional work.
Her work is realistic, stark and narrative, which is based on the figure
using images mostly from the pictures on magazines. She recycles and transforms
image into visually anonymous form.
She explores possible emotional connection to the images as a self-portrait.
Images are used to be a part of popular magazines and also surveys influence
of anonymously transformed photo-based figure form.
Ultimately, Saki’s self-portrait embraces viewers, becoming their own portrait.
With her on-going series "some stories", she explores
and evokes our life stories which are floating in between shadow
and light, past and future revealing chaotic and nostalgic
existence of ours.
She is also working on musician's CD cover art and a member
of art-anon (www.art-anon.org).
She joins Rider Projects with another members. Truck is their
gallery and The RIDER Project is a mobile art gallery and
experimental exhibition space located in the back of a rented
Ryder truck. RIDER Project is staffed and funded by participating
artists who act as an ever-evolving collaborative, recombining
into a different form with each exhibition. Using Guerilla
tactics of social intervention, reduced cost and maximum
visibility, the mobile Rider Project brings artwork directly
to people, circumventing economic market structures and cultural
constraints.
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Participating
artists create the form and culture of each exhibition and
interject them into neighborhoods stimulating cultural dialogue
and a participatory Socratic space. Neighborhood
residents interact with exhibiting artists engaging in a vital exchange of thoughts,
feelings and experiences, forging new cultural links. The RIDER Project delivers
art to New York City through a dynamic akin to blood circulating through an organism.
Saki studied painting and drawing at National Academy School
of Fine Arts in New York.
She is a recipient of Mary Hinman carter prize, Ralph Fabri
Scholarship, Lucretia Bori scholarship and Nicholas Markatos
scholarship and will join the summer group show at SAFE-T-GALLERY,
DUNBO, Brooklyn next coming July.
She was born in Tokyo, Japan in1977. Now she lives and works in Brooklyn,
NY
For more information on this artist visit www.kishimotosaki.com
