Gallery Yamaki Fine Art

ARTIST INFO

Eri MORIMOTO

Eri MORIMOTO

Born in Osaka in 1978 and currently lives in Osaka. Morimoto graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Oil Painting, in 2001, and completed the Graduate Program of the same university, Department of Painting, Oil Painting, in 2003.

“I know,” “I can see,” “I want to make, but I can’t,” “I want to reach, but I can’t,” but they surely exist. In order to approach such an image in her mind, Morimoto relives and deconstructs the beauty in the natural world according to her own rules, and creates works as a “place” that has no center on canvas, paper, or surface: her place of residence. In her drawing series, Morimoto divides the colors found in nature and draws countless beaded grains of color, trying to find the beauty of the seemingly irregular in the regular, which represents the comfort in her image that she knows there is no answer when she pushes it.

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Works

  • Title
    left："contour map # pine tree (dusk)- memo"left/center："contour map # pine tree (early afternoon)- memo"ringht center："contour map # pine tree (dusk)"right："contour map # pine tree (early afternoon)"
    Size
    left each：51.5×72.8cm, right each：72.8×103cm
    Year
    2020
    Medium
    Cotton cloth on panel, acrylic paint
  • Title
    "contour map # coast"
    Size
    72.8×103cm
    Year
    2020
    Medium
    Cotton cloth on panel, acrylic paint
  • Title
    left:"contour map #lagoon／turquoiseⅣ - memo” right:"ontour map #lagoon／turquoiseⅣ "
    Size
    left：42× 29.7cm, right：80.2×80.2cm
    Year
    2013
    Medium
    Cotton cloth on panel, acrylic paint
  • Title
    "contour map # cauliflower(violet)"
    Size
    45.5×45.5㎝
    Year
    2023
    Medium
    Cotton cloth on panel, acrylic paint
  • Title
    left："contour map # pine tree (dusk)- memo"left/center："contour map # pine tree (early afternoon)- memo"ringht center："contour map # pine tree (dusk)"right："contour map # pine tree (early afternoon)"
    Size
    left each：51.5×72.8cm, right each：72.8×103cm
    Year
    2020
    Medium
    Cotton cloth on panel, acrylic paint
  • Title
    "contour map # coast"
    Size
    72.8×103cm
    Year
    2020
    Medium
    Cotton cloth on panel, acrylic paint
  • Title
    left:"contour map #lagoon／turquoiseⅣ - memo” right:"ontour map #lagoon／turquoiseⅣ "
    Size
    left：42× 29.7cm, right：80.2×80.2cm
    Year
    2013
    Medium
    Cotton cloth on panel, acrylic paint
  • Title
    "contour map # cauliflower(violet)"
    Size
    45.5×45.5㎝
    Year
    2023
    Medium
    Cotton cloth on panel, acrylic paint

CV

1978
Born in Osaka, Japan
2001
Graduates from B.A., Kyoto City University of Fine Arts and Music (painting)
2003
Graduates from M.A., Kyoto City University of Fine Arts and Music (painting)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2002
CRIOTERIOM 58, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
2004
CRIOTERIOM 58, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
2005
Voice Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2007
SAI Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2010
SAI Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2013
ART OSAKA, SAI Gallery Booth, Osaka, Japan
2020
SAI Gallery,Osaka,Japan
2022
SAI Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2024
contour map♯ -from the beginning-

Selected Group Exhibitions

2001
"Ashiya City Exhibition "Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Hyogo,Japan
2001
"Kyoten", Kyoto Municipal Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto (Mayer prize), Japan
2002
"Vector 12", Contemporary Art Space Osaka(CASO), Osaka, Japan
2002
"Tenryu-river Painting Prize Contest Exhibition", Akino Fuku Museum,Shizuoka, Japan
2003
"Selected Artists in Kyoto -2003 New Wave-". The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan. Kobe Art Annual 2003, Kobe Art Village Centre, Hyogo, Japan
2003
"KOBE ART ANNUAL2003-Grip the Gap-"Kobe Art Village Center,Hyogo,Japan
2004
"TAMA VIVANT 2004",　Minatomirai Station,Kanagawa,Japan
2005
"Selected Artists in Kyoto -2005 New Wave-". The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan. Kobe Art Annual 2003, Kobe Art Village Centre, Hyogo, Japan
2005
"Drawing and..", SAI Gallery,Osaka,Japan
2007
“UCHINARU-OTO - Formation from Body Sounds”, Borderless Art Gallery NO-MA, Shiga, Japan
2008
"OTOHAKO Exhibition "Kobe Art Village Center,Hyogo,Japan
2008
“VOCA2008”, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
2009
“Art initiative Project Exhibition as media drowning room”, Kobe Art Village Centre, Hyogo, Japan
2011
“Art Court Frontier 2011”, ART COAT Gallery,Osaka , Japan.
2011
"Fukuyama Art Walk", Fukuyama, Hiroshima
2012
"Art picnic vol.2 breathing art" Ashiya City Museum of Art and History,Hyogo,Japan
2015
"HEIMEN”, SAI Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2021
“Deviating forms”, SAI Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2022
“ACK(Art Collaboration Kyoto)：Gallery Yamaki Fine Art Booth” Kyoto International Conference Center Event Hall, Kyoto, Japan
2022
“Mori no Iro” Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe, Japan
2022
“Mori no Iro” Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe, Japan
2023
"favorite", SAI Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2023
"CADAN x ISETAN　Recent discovery" Isetan Shinjuku,Tokyo,Japan
2023
"Taipei Dangdai 2023: Gallery Yamaki Fine Art Booth, Taipei, Taiwan
2023
"ABSTRACTION -The Possibilities of Painting-" Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Hyogo, Japan
2024
"Here and There and Back Again, Japanese Art 1964 – 202" Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Switzerland
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