Artist Makoto Fujimura

Makoto fujimura is a leading contemporary artist whose process driven refractive slow art has been described by david brooks of new york times as a small rebellion against the quickening of time.

Artist makoto fujimura.

Makoto fujimura is an artist a speaker and the author of refractions a journey of faith art and culture. About makoto fujimura. 1960 boston is a leading contemporary artist whose process driven refractive slow art has been described by david brooks of new york times as a small rebellion against the quickening of time. He graduated with a b a.

Fujimura s art has been featured widely in galleries and museums around the. Makoto fujimura fuses traditional nihonga painting with the techniques of western abstraction. View makoto fujimura s artworks on saatchi art. Represented by artrue international and partnering with waterfall mansions in new york city next exhibit homage to silence from may 12 july 2017 makoto fujimura s art has been exhibited in many galleries and museums around the world.

He has a particular affinity for using stone ground minerals such as gold platinum malachite azurite and cinnabar. From tokyo national university of fine arts and music with a japanese governmental scholarship in 1989. Makoto fujimura is a leading contemporary artist whose process driven refractive slow art has been described by david brooks of new york times as a small rebellion against the quickening of time. In this episode of signposts i am joined by artist makoto fujimura to talk about his art beauty and faith.

Makoto fujimura was born in 1960 in boston massachusetts. The idea of forging a new kind of art about hope healing redemption refuge while maintaining visual sophistication and intellectual integrity is a growing movement one. An exploration of faith beauty imagination. Makoto fujimura born 1960 is a 21st century artist.

Inspired by artist makoto fujimura culture care is a ministry that explores our longings fears and doubts with grace hope and splendor through the arts creativity and design. Fujimura believes that the minerals particularly gold allow for a fuller exploration of the interstice between the essential flatness of abstraction and the interior space of representation. Robert kushner in the mid 90 s written on fujimura s art in art in america this way. Educated bi culturally between the u s.

And japan fujimura graduated from bucknell university in 1983 and received an m f a.