Tuesday, August 02 to August 07 12pm to 06pm
Ouchi Gallery
170 Tillary Street, Suite 105, Brooklyn, NY 11201
AWJED was born in Japan in 1980 and was raised in a household full of music. Apart from studying piano, she liked expressing her own world of images, as she saw in picture books of Japanese mythology and Arabian Nights among others. In school, she had a reputation because of her drawings of caricatures and comics and she was tasked with drawing a portrait of the whole class for their graduation album. In 2002, she gradu- ated from Toho College of Music with a Bachelor of Music in Piano. After that, she wrote music and worked on architectural design technology for civil infrastructure maintenance pertaining to disaster control. All along, she felt more and more eager to use her illustrations to express a world of unknown that could enliven people. From that time, she has concentrated on making 100 pieces of the world for her project “AWart100.” In 2011 and 2012, she participated in international art fairs such as Design Festa in Tokyo. In 2013 and 2014, she displayed work in “100 Artist Exhibition” at Ouchi Gallery in New York and energetically continued making art.
Mami Ishibashi is a Japanese female photographer who was born in 1987. The time she stared photography is when she was a high school student in Tokyo. At very beginning, she started to take photos of her favorite soccer players at a stadium, but gradually she found interest at recording people’s daily lives, cultures, and natures.
From April 2015, she started her career of photographer, and now mainly take photos of families, couples, flowers, and landscapes of the road. She trying to take photographs that show any messages or foundable of someones lives.
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