215 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
United States
Nov 19, 2021 - Dec 13, 2021
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Ryoko Endo was born into a traditional family in Fukushima, Japan, and attended a Catholic mission school. She studied graphic design and typography at Musashino Art University in Tokyo. She has exhibited extensively throughout New York, New Orleans in both solo and group exhibitions, and in 2015 she received a Trudy and Henry Gillette Painting scholarship.
Upon moving to New York City in 1994, Endo had worked in the food industry. In September 2006, she entered The Art Student League building. The smell of oil paint immediately brought her back to happier days as an art student. The gallery had instructors show. Instructor second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter Kikuo Saito's brilliant, vivid splashes of colors was so refreshing and so moving to her that it drove away from her sadness. She was bursting from within and felt like she wanted to paint as he did. It was Kikuo's one painting that motivated her to begin painting abstract. Saito inspired her to create colorful abstract paintings, which continues to be her focus today. Endo's paintings explore the union between color and movement. She pursues the possibilities of various color combinations, which convey emotion. The way she moves each element empowers her paintings, and brushstrokes vary according to speed, thickness, density, and rhythm. Her calligraphy requires complete concentration, as it is an unforgiving practice; it becomes a type of meditation.
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