YUMIKO FURUKAWA

■Asaja


Yumiko Furukawa, Asaja, 2011
“Aizu Urushi Art festival 2011 : Yell to Tohoku” Photo by Masaji Shinohara

http://youtu.be/Rn0F22oxzAY/

■Tsurara

I opened the art workshop for families who are living in Fukushima on March 10th and 11th 2012. We made many LED lamp shades. Participants drew their dreams and hopes on circular paper objects like icicles.





















4/13/12　Yumiko Furukawa

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Happy New Year 2012

Yumiko Furukawa



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I'm going to planning the art trip with kids in Fukushina on March 10 and 11th 2012.

I hope to see many hopes for our great future.

Yumiko Furukawa



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Dear friends,

I would like to let you know about exhibition "NEW CONSTELLATION" by Two Artists Ms. Mael Nohara and I.
Please join us for opening reception on Saturday, September 10th, 5:00-7:30 pm. I am looking forward to seeing you there.

Best regards,

Yumiko Furukawa

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NEW CONSTELLATION: An Exhibit by Two Artists
Yumiko Furukawa and Mael Nohara

Place: JaNet Hall
2 West 47th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10036
On Exhibit: Saturday, September 10 through Monday, October 3, 2011
Time: Monday to Friday, 11:00 am to 6:00 pm
*early closing on some days

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 10th, 5:00-7:30 pm

Join us for a new exhibition titled, “New Constellation,” by two artists, Yumiko Furukawa and Mael Nohara, at the new multi-purpose space in JaNet Hall, located off Fifth Avenue in the diamond district of Manhattan.

The two artists met through “Igyoshu Kouryuukai (Name Card Exchange Party for Different Professions)” sponsored by JaNet, as they have inspired each other and developed a bond over the years, while going on a trip to Art Basel Miami Beach together.

Furukawa, working with watercolor, oil and acrylics, composes paintings with jewel-like color and texture. While Nohara, wielding a digital brush, produces ethereal portraits on her computer screen, where the glowing pixels flow like lava.

The exhibit aims to contrast the two worlds of analogue and digital, as the two worlds collide and meld at the same time into a shining new constellation of each artist’s work. 


Artist profile


Yumiko Furukawa

Born in Aizuwakamatsu City in Fukushima, she now calls New York home. Yumiko joined the International Residency Program of Location One in SoHo as a grant recipient of Asian Cultural Council in 2004. After receiving Ph.D. from Tokyo University of the arts’s graduate program, she returned to the United States as an artist and researcher with a support of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japanese Government in 2007. She has remained in New York since, creating installation pieces in paintings and sculptures that bridges visual and literary expressions. One of her major exhibits included Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003 and her solo exhibit titled, “Flicker” at Gallery Side 2 in 2006. She is scheduled to join the exhibit at Aizu Urushi Art festival 2011 : Yell to Tohoku sponsored by Fukushima Museum, where she is preparing a huge serpents sculpture and lacquered tea bowl adorned with the theme from local folklore.


Mael Nohara

Born in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward and raised in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, she grew up immersed in subcultures such as manga, anime and rock’n’roll music. While working as a professional illustrator in Japan for various media including op-ed pieces and advertisings, she was active in group exhibit circuit and commercial art for a theater group, receiving numerous awards. After moving to the United States in 2001, she started employing calligraphy techniques as she showed her works at Sci-Fi/fantasy/game conventions in and around US. Her first solo exhibit took place in 2005 in New York. Later, she switched from analogue paintings to digital using pen tablet in 2008, but continues her works in haunting fantasy-based portraitures that are both homage and her own creation.


Yumiko Furukawa　”Stupid Happy” 2011 water color and color pencil on paper15x20cm


Mael Nohara "The Truth Beneath The Surface" watercolor and pencil on Italian
paper, digital painting W 3600 pixels x H 4500 pixels / RGB / 300 dpi

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NEW YORK ART BEAT

http://www.nyartbeat.com/nyablog/2011/08/art-review-drawings-002/


Fukushima Museum

All of website pages is only in Japanese.

http://www.aizu-artfest.gr.fks.ed.jp/yell/yell.html

Asajya

http://www.aizu-artfest.gr.fks.ed.jp/yell/sakuhin/5_ha/19_asaja.pdf

Dear Tohoku

http://www.aizu-artfest.gr.fks.ed.jp/yell/sakuhin/5_ha/20_etegami.pdf

Tsurara

http://www.aizu-artfest.gr.fks.ed.jp/yell/sakuhin/5_ha/21_tsurara.pdf


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I would like to let you know that Fukushima Museum starts to seeking many artists plans about rehabilitation of Tohoku. Please send your plan to them, they are going to show all of plan in the web site.

http://www.general-museum.fks.ed.jp/urushinogeijyutusai/yell/yell.html

The following message is from Ms. Megumi Kobayashi who is curator in Fukushima Museum. I hope many artist rise up and send great plan for our great future.

Best regards,

Yumiko Furukawa

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"Yell to Tohoku"
An alternative creative avenue for the Aizu Urushi Art festival 2011

The earthquake and tsunami that hit the Tohoku and Kanto areas and caused so much damage were an almost unprecedented disaster for the region. And this was followed by the nuclear accident in Fukushima Prefecture, forcing many residents to leave their homes in fear even though they escaped the immediate impact of the earthquake and tsunami.
Though the damage Japan has suffered from this natural disaster is widespread, almost beyond imagining, we wholly believe that the damage will be repaired in time and Japan will be restored. However, even after the damage has been repaired, the present state of nuclear power may stand in the way of the full restoration of a safe and stable future for the people of Fukushima.
This is a tragedy of a kind we have never before faced in our history, and we must at all costs put an end to it. Yet all of us live a life supported by the vast amounts of energy we consume every day, and therefore each of us should seek to leave a message to future generations about our awful dilemma.
Of course, there is no easy way. The power of a single individual to change the world is small.
Some may say, is art of little use, either – as powerless and a single person. But is this so? Is it not the role of the artist, above all when we face the unprecedented, to create the possibility of imaging what has never been imagined?


In the current state of emergency faced by the residents of Fukushima, it is difficult to look far into the future. We are therefore carefully reviewing our plans for the Aizu Urushi Art festibal 2011 ware exhibit in the Fukushima Prefectural Museum, and have not reached a final decision.
To all of you have so kindly cooperated in the management of the Fukushima Prefectural Museum, though it pains us to have to ask this favor of you, we hope you will help us call out to the people of Fukushima. We hope you will work with us to create a “Yell to Tohoku”, by sending us your thoughts and your vision for future planning and the revival of the festival, and your thoughts on the disaster the people of Fukushima have been though.
Although we are unable to provide funding, we wish to bring your thoughts and vision contributions each in turn to the pavilion HP and to from there to send out your messages nationwide.
While feeling the threat of the radioactivity near us every day, we wish to send out your voices across the land. We will be happy to receive whatever you can contribute.
We pray for everyone’s health and well being.

"Yell to Tohoku"

Content: planning for works of art, event plans, revival plan, and the vision messages for the future. Image picture or text, photograph, image, and drawing, etc.
Sending method: Text files, PDFs, JPGs, up to about 3MG [3 megabytes] by email, or by mail.


Supervisors:
Megumi Kobayashi, (Curator of Fukushima Prefectural Museum )
　 Yasunao Kawanobe, (Curator of Fukushima Prefectural Museum )

1-25 Jyouhomachi, Aizuwakamatsu City, Fukushima
965-0807 Japan
Telephone：+81-242-28-6000
FAX：+81-242-28-5986
e-mail: kobayashi.megumi@rd32.fks.ed.jp or kawanobe.yasunao@hj66.fks.ed.jp

Special thanks:
Nishiaizu International Art Village


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Photo by Suzanna Finley


Asia Society’s benefit concert was very historical event in my life because I was rising up with my voice and I started seeking the mission what I should do as an artist who was born in Fukushima.

Here is the link to the video of Asia Society’s benefit concert.

http://asiasociety.org/video/arts-culture/japan-benefit-concert


I would like to say thank you to Asian Society for great opportunity. I will continue to do my best.

Yumiko Furukawa

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