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THBMASAKO KAMIYA M'99, The Dance of Durga
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621 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
United States
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TimedMar 17, 2025 - Mar 29, 2025
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344. MASAKO KAMIYA M'99
The Dance of Durga, 2022
Gouache on paper
20" x 16"
$4,000
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery NAGABorn and raised in Japan, Kamiya pursued her art training in the United States at the Massachusetts College of Art and the Montserrat College of Art, where she is now a professor. She received the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant in 2017 and was named a Brother Thomas Fellow in 2015. She received Mass Cultural Council Painting Fellowships in 2006 and 2010 and recently completed a residency at the Custom House Studios in Westport, Ireland, and the residency at La Porte Peinte in Noyer sur Serein, France. Her work is in the collections of the Boston Public Library and the Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham. Kamiya is represented by Gallery NAGA in Boston, MA.
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Artist's Description:
Masako Kamiya has developed a unique approach to painting that is hers alone. Blurring the line between painting and sculpture, she constructs tiny towers of gouache, an opaque watercolor, one dot at a time on a panel or a piece of paper. When one daub of paint dries, she adds on top of it another dot. When the painting is finished, she will have repeated this process some 10,000 times. Her paintings are stunningly complex, and their minuscule transitions of color are hypnotic, especially on close inspection. Masako Kamiya’s meticulous accumulations of innumerable dots of paint have attracted much attention in the Boston art scene. The tiny, prismatic stalagmites of paint that spike forward in her works beckon viewers with mesmerizing cascades of visual information.
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