Английская Википедия:Emi Ozawa

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Emi Ozawa (born 1962) is a Japanese-born American visual artist, sculptor, and furniture designer. She is known for her woodworking that is also interactive sculpture, which she started creating in the early 1980s.[1] Originally from Tokyo, Ozawa lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico.[2]

Biography

Emi Ozawa was born in 1962 in Tokyo, Japan.[3] Her father was an accountant and her mother was a stay-at-home mother; they encouraged her at a young age to pursue art.[3]

Ozawa attended Joshibi University of Art and Design, followed by study in 1985 at the Tokyo University of the Arts.[3] After two years she transferred as an exchange student to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia to study woodworking.[3] She later earned an MFA degree in furniture design from the Rhode Island School of Design. She had studied furniture design under Шаблон:III, Alphonse Mattia and Rosanne Somerson.[3]

Ozawa creates painted wood wall sculptures that optically shift when viewed from different perspectives.[4] These wall paintings are constructed from many pieces of wood that are screwed together to construct a multi-dimensional surface.[5] Color is strategically arranged to create compositions that shift when viewed from different perspectives.[6] Her sophisticated surface application and meticulous design reveal an emphasis on craftsmanship.[7] Her work is associated with constructivism and minimalism.

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