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IWASAKI ERI (B.1968)
Cotton Candy, 2019
Signed Eri Iwasaki, titled and dated on verso
Mineral pigment, gofun, platinum paint on kozo paper
mounted on wood panel
51Ω x 63æ in. (130.8 x 161.9 cm.)
$8,000-12,000

Iwasaki Eri was born in the Hyogo Prefecture of Japan
and was trained to paint Nihonga in Kyoto, where
she is currently based. She finds a connection to the
prescribed materials used in Nihonga, or traditional
Japanese painting, and plays with them. She explores
their boundaries and creates a sensational new world of
art from these long treasured materials. Her fascinating
history working as a courtroom sketch artist allowed
her to closely observe intense emotions and the dark
sides of humanity, which may account for her choice
of portraying delicate yet vigorous young children and
women.
Iwasaki’s works are in the public collection of Kyoto
Prefecture, and have been exhibited extensively in Japan
and other regions in Asia.

岩崎絵里 (B. 1968) COTTON CANDY

Each person’s inner life maintains a certain vague shape,
and yet that shape changes day to day, moment to
moment. There maybe a small core element that can
never change, but the trappings that surround it transform
gently in reaction to, and create transformations in, our
environment. Furthermore, whatever it is that forms those
trappings ensnares and is itself ensnared.