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Artist Statement:
Tomoe was born in 1967 in
Osaka, Japan. Tomoe is
currently living in Osaka,
Japan, and taking online
courses from the Academy of
Art University, San Francisco,
USA. She is interested in
mixed media, travel
photography, collage, recycled
art, and book arts. Her themes
relate to both natures, city
scenes, ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Exhibitions
2009 International Mail Art
Exhibition of Indonesia,
Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
2006 White Salmon Art Walk,
Along Jewett Boulevard, Roz
Gallery, White Salmon, WA
2005 Jizo for Piece Project,
Kyoto Ð Nagasaki, Japan...
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Artist Galleries:
Roz Gallery, 141 Jewett St,
White Salmon, WA
Contact: Blue Ackerman
Email: blueirth@aim.com
(Showing 3 series of
photographs, 8 by 10 inches,
over the summer of 2006.)
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Artist Reviews:
Cited from June, 2003, Hokubei
Mainichi Newspaper, 1746
Sutter Street, SF, CA
S.F. Artists' Studios to Be
Open to Public
Painter Chiyori Filion's "The
Duration of the Universe Ill",
mixed media artist Priseilla
Otani's "Grain Book" and Tomoe
Nakamura's "Lamy Station
Coolage", a water color with
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Collections:
Coming Soon!
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Tomoe Nakamura Biography:
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Age
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41
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Committed
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
Shintoism |
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| Education |
Undergraduate Work |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Traveling, Canoeing, Train ride, Ship ride, Backpacking, bicycling,
Peace, Natural conservation, ingenious people. different culture.
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Photography Color
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Conceptualism - (1960 - 1975)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Robert Smithson, Henri Cartier
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| Favorite Work of Art |
not provided
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Conceptual Art, Pop Art, Andy Warhol. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Tomoe Nakamura was born in 1967 in Osaka Japan. She is a visual artist, photographer, and writer. Nakamura is currently living in Osaka, Japan, and taking online courses from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco USA. She has visited the U.S. continuously, since she was 12 years old, so she has been fascinated by American culture. She is interested in mixed media, travel photography, collage, recycled art, and book arts. Her themes relate to both natures, city scenes, travel writing/photography, abstract, still life.
Growing up as an only child, surrounded by adults, many of her family members were artists, teachers. It was unavoidable for her to be a modest and inquisitive child. Her mother was an English tutor teaching English, so she learned about different cultures and participated in home stay exchanges. So, she also developed to have an international and progressive mind. She grew up with British Rock and Progressive music and Spielberg and Lucas films. Her first dream was to be a science fiction writer, and a scriptwriter for a Japanese TV drama.
In 2000, Nakamura obtained a Summer Scholarship at the Academy of Art University where she began her studies in photography. She studied fine art photography, book arts, painting, and mixed media at the Academy of Art University, College of Santa Fe, and San Francisco Art Institute. The discovery of book art genre allowed her to create works that encompassed all of her interests including painting, mixed media, collage with recycled materials, and photography. She was influenced by environmental and conceptual artists like Cristo, Andy Goldsworthy, and Robert Smithson. Nakamura hopes to present her art outside of gallery settings in order for audience to be able to touch and interact with the art, and make audience aware of nature. With the opposite in scale from the book arts, she also has a future thought about creating a large work of mixed media and sculpture outside in nature with her previous photographs and recycled materials.
In 2005, Nakamura and her partner, Alejandro Garcia Chavez participated in the Jizo for Piece Project in Hiroshima Japan. They created a digital drawing that was printed on a hand-made Japanese style coat (called happy) for one of the American Buddhist group member to wear. In 2008, her mail art, post card size prints, were sent to Indonesia to promote protecting nature with other mail artists.
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