Board a ship
Photo by Kai MAETANI
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Main Gallery Area Artist
Portrait of Masato Nagamine
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Photo by Katsuhiko Sasaoka, ©Gallery Nomart
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Photo by Katsuhiko Sasaoka, ©Gallery Nomart
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Artist Information
Nana Kuromiya
1980 Born in Tokyo
2015 Ph.D.F.A., Kyoto City University of Art, Kyoto, Japan
2010 “KUROMIYA Nana, RYUSAINO GENEI-”INAX Gallery 2（Tokyo,Japan）
2016 “KUROMIYA Nana,Night–OBOROGENA KIWA”@KCUA（Kyoto,Japan）
2017 “Inevitable Nomadism: Nana Kuromiya / Kento Nito / Kurumi Wakaki” Kyoto Art Center（Kyoto,Japan）
2018 “The 21st Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art” Taro Okamoto Museum of Art（Kanagawa,Japan）
2018 “KUROMIYA Nana : Utsutsu” Gallery Nomart（Osaka,Japan）
“Nijimi” and “Bokashi” are painting techniques by which the traces of the brush itself becomes indistinct. Through these two techniques, the surface of my oil painting comes to have a clear gloss, such as that of glazed pottery. At the same time, it has a smooth gradation like that of a photograph.
Selector
Curator, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
[Comment by Selector]
Kuromiya creates oil paintings and ink and paper artworks. Here, let us focus on the latter. By mixing ink with water, she creates images while breaking down colors. It is similar to refracting light through a prism. The broken-down indigos, reds, and yellows are filled with a clear glistening. Surfaces appear to be like a mirror or water surface reflecting its surroundings. These mirror surface images are brought to the next level by her blurring with two sheets of overlapping paper, thereby creating vertical and horizontal symmetry—kaleidoscopes. If the mirror is one of the origins of painting, then Kuromiya’s works embody this metaphor.