TRANQUILITY MASAKO KAMIYA
Gallery artist Masako Kamiya engages in a dialogue with paint. Her dialogue with the paint and the surface is composed of each dot she makes with the brush. Masako builds up dots of color into half-inch, stalactitelike columns with rich variations in color layers. From a distance the painting is a series of dots, which create larger patterns toward a uniformed center. When observed more closely the third dimension is revealed, a forest of multicolored columns. The surface is dense. Colors on the flat surface of the paper react with the colors on the surface of each stalk when perceived closely. She works intimately on the surface, and also moves away from the surface in order to see how the layers of mark-making negate earlier marks and reveal a new form. Masako is a recipient of the Brother Thomas Fellowship in and the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship. Her mid-career exhibition was held at the Danforth Museum. Masako is a professor in Painting & Foundation Department at Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts.
