Moro 1998 B

Yukie Ishikawa is a Japanese contemporary artist born in Tokyo in 1961. She graduated from Musashino Art University in 1983. She has had several solo shows at Hillside Gallery (Tokyo), Nantenshi Gallery (Tokyo) in1993, and other galleries. She has participated in group shows and exhibitions, including those at the Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo), the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Sezon Museum (Tokyo), and International Biennial of Water Color Castle of Zaprice, Kamnik, Slovenia. With her successful solo show at Blum & Poe Gallery Tokyo in 2018, how her art develops has come to international attention.
Ishikawa begins creation of a painting by tracing forms she has found in printed materials such as magazines and advertisements. The forms she picked are then enlarged and projected, deviating from the original roles they had, to serve as pictorial elements having totally different meanings.

The base of the painting drawn before forms were cast by the projector is autonomous as a pictorial space by itself, and has shades, depth and movements toward every direction. To draw forms and lines projected on the base, Ishikawa employed masking and the technique to mix sand, resulting in difference in matière and color development as well as in forms and coloring. Moro 1998 B composed meticulously with all pictorial elements carefully prepared has a strained atmosphere where upper and lower parts of the canvas as well as the surface and depth are balanced.