Misaki Kawai Explained
Misaki Kawai (河井美咲) (born 1978 in Ōkawa, Kagawa, Japan[1] [2]) is a Japanese artist. Her work has been shown extensively in the United States.[3] "Her father was an architect and amateur painter and her mother made clothing and puppets" [4] Kawai creates installations out of paper-mâché, wood, fabric, and other low-tech, "crafty" materials like felt, stickers, and yarn. She shuns expertise and uses an anime method called heta-uma that "risks amateur aesthetics by embracing basic expression" [5] Kawai artist books include Blueberry Express (Nieves Press, 2009),[6] Pencil Exercise (Edition Nord, 2011),[7] Steamy Buns (nos:books, 2020).[8]
From December 2020 through April 2021, Kawai held her first installation in Australia, Moja Moja Land.[9]
Further reading
- Smith, Roberta "Make Room for Video, Performance and Paint," The New York Times, January 3, 2010
- Michilis, Raphael "Good Sense Bad Technique" (Interview), Elephant, Issue No.1, Winter 2009-10
- "Manifesto", Art Review, April Issue #31, 2009
- "Wild Feature", New York Times, July 24, 2009
- "The Fiction Issue", Vice Magazine, December Issue, 2008
- "Tokyo's Hottest Creators Misaki Kawai," Harper's BAZAAR May, 2008
- “Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York,” Japan Society, NYC, 2007
- Fricke, Kirsten "Misaki Kawai," Theme Magazine, Spring, 2007
- McQuaid, Cate "In her whimsical installation, she plays with dolls," The Boston Globe, March 27, 2007
- Shirasaka,Yuri "HETA-UMA & Underground Summit Japan/U.S.A. @ ON SUNDAYS & BOROBORO DORODORO SHOW@Watari Museum of Contemporary Art", Bijutsu Techo, Vol.59, No.890, January, 2007
- "A Decade Of Art In Tokion" (Interview), Revisionaries, 2007
- "Trouble At Play", Modern Painters, November Issue, 2007
- "It’s a Beautiful Day", The Asahi Shimbun, January 13, 2006
- Goodman, Wendy "home is where the art is," MODERNPAINTERS, March, 2006
- Saltz, Jerry "Lesser New York", The Village VOICE, March 28, 2005
- Smith, Roberta "Desired Constellations," The New York Times, August 5, 2005
- Poor, Kristin "PROJECT IN THE MAKING...: THE WOW-WEE WORLD OF MISAKI KAWAI," ArtAsiaPacific No.45 Summer, 2005
- LaVallee, Andrew "Majority Whip: Get Personal with Politics," NY ARTS, July/August, 2004
- Buckner, Clark "Kuru Kuru Jet," GUARDIAN: The San Francisco Bay, June 2, 2004
- Mar, Alex "Misaki Kawai," The New York Sun, February 6, 2003
- Smith, Roberta "A Bread-Crumb Trail to the Spirit of the Times", The New York Times, 2003
- Saltz, Jerry "Rays of Light", The Village Voice, 2003
- Smith, Roberta "ART IN REVIEW, MISAKI KAWAI," The New York Times, January 31, 2003
- Smith, Roberta "ART REVIEW; A Bread-Crumb Trail to the Spirit of the Times," The New York Times, January 17, 2003
- Smith, Roberta "ART GUIDE: TENTIONISM," The New York Times, March 15, 2002
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: ICA Home Press Release . www.icaboston.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070629160942/http://www.icaboston.org/about/pressreleases/kawai . 2007-06-29.
- Book: Shiner . Making a home: Japanese contemporary artists in New York . Tomii . Reiko . Japan Society . 2007 . 978-0-300-12634-1 . New York, N.Y. . 205.
- News: Graeber . Laurel . March 15, 2012 . Wizard Of Whimsy . New York Times . September 16, 2014.
- Web site: ICA Boston. 2006–2007. September 16, 2014. Momentum 7: Misaki Kawai.
- Web site: Misaki Kawai for Paddle8. May 9, 2012. September 16, 2014. Cool Hunting. Captain Lucas, Inc.. Thorne. James.
- Web site: Blueberry Express. September 16, 2014. Nieves Catalogue - Misaki Kawai. Nieves Press.
- Web site: Misaki Kawai - "Pencil Exercise" . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211121023130/http://editionnord.com/en/catalogue/stc-002/ . 21 November 2021 . 21 November 2021 . Edition Nord.
- Web site: Steamy Buns 饅頭. 2021-11-21. nosbooks. en.
- Web site: Moja Moja Life: Misaki Kawai for Kids . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210511165546/https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/event/moja-moja-life-misaki-kawai-kids . 11 May 2021 . 12 October 2022 . Broadsheet . en.
