Kyoko Fischer
Artist Statement
The process of creating art, along with its relationship to shapes and
lines, gives me a feeling of nostalgia and calmness. My art allows me to
not only time travel to a past that cannot be otherwise reached – it
produces a continuum between the past and the present that I can access
and find new, surprising information for me to digest and think more
about life for being human. The sky I looked up at eight years old is
the same sky I see today, and I express that through my artwork; the
green leaf falling by me at six years old produces the same feeling in
me when a red leaf falls to the ground today, and I represent that
through my art.
My artwork explores the intersection of the past and the present, as
well as the beautiful tensions emerge as a result. Over the last several
years, I have devoted myself to studying Japanese history and culture,
particularly with an eye on mingei – or art objects made by ordinary
people during the Edo period. I continually ask myself what it means to
incorporate and reimagine mingei in today’s modern art context; this
question allows me to creatively bridge a gap of over four hundred years
and shed new light on a tradition not only time-honored, but time-bound
as well.
Solo Thesis Exhibition Images
Kyoko Fischer
Sashiko: On Paper, 2019
Lithography, intaglio, paper thread
48 x 90 in
Kyoko Fischer
Sashiko: On Paper, 2019
Lithography, intaglio, paper thread
48 x 90 in
Kyoko Fischer
Sashiko: On Paper, 2019
Lithography, intaglio, paper thread
48 x 90 in
Kyoko Fischer
Sashiko: On Paper, 2019
Lithography, intaglio, paper thread
48 x 90 in
Kyoko Fishcer
Sashiko: On Paper, 2019
Lithography, intaglio, paper thread
48 x 90 in