STATEMENT
I am creating the slices of life scenes. They are from my memories or imaginations.
Cloud in the sky which I looked above during a walk, glimpsed evening glow between buildings, street corners on the trip. All of the momentary scenes are my View Collection.
I also like to draw portrait of plants. I think that everything such as a plant, a bicycle and a cloud has feelings. I try to keep these scenes with atmosphere.
I employed printmaking to visualize my collection. There are many processes to finish a print, however I love even complicated process and its indirect way.Using primary color, such as yellow, red and blue on each plate, gradually get completed image and harmony in color.
Making lithographs became my life work. I would like viewers to feel like just on my point of view and make them happy through my art.
Minako Ito
minako@pf7.so-net.ne.jp
Education:
1987 | BFA in Illustration, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY |
1983 | BFA in Industrial, Interior and Craft Design Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan |
Selected Exhibitions:
2000 | Twenty-Third Small Works , 80 Washington Square Gallery, New York, NY |
1997 | Motion in Picture , Art Directors Club, New York, NY |
Solo Exhibitions including two-person show:
2007 | View Collection, Gallery Malle, Ebisu, Tokyo |
2006 | View Collection, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY |
2005 | Collection of View, Gallery DAZZLE, Aoyama, Tokyo |
2004 | Clouid in the Sky and Wind, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY double mina/ko prints exhibition, Gallery OM, Shin-Yokohama, Kanagawa |
2002 | PRINTWORKS 2002, Gallery Kitamura, Aoyama, Tokyo Welcome to Minako’s World, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY |
1996 | East Side Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY |
1992 | PRINTWORKS ’92 , Gallery Takano, Ginza, Tokyo |
Group Exhibitions:
2003 – 2008 | Gallery OM, Shin Yokohama, Kanagawa |
2004 | Spring Prints Fair, Susie’s Card & Antique, Kamakura, Kanagawa |
2001 | Space Odyssey, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY Citicorp Building, Long Island City, NY |
2000 | Asian Artist Show, Federal Building, Jamaica, NY |
1998 | Hallelujah, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY |
Boards:
The New York Public Library |