Born in Urayasu City, Chiba, Mika Azegami is a Japanese artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her paintings manipulate calligraphy, text, language, silk-screen imagery, drawings, acrylic paint and found collage elements of mixed media on canvas into a Zen like infusion of private muses. Featuring in a solo show entitled “my story: their own peronality” that will open August 13 at Bob’s Gallery in NYC.
Her painterly gestures are driven by daily experiences as she creates therapeutic psychological landscapes into experimental visual journals that are “connected somewhere else.” Her strokes are first and foremost born out of the joy of play and grounded in inner dialogues, memory, stories, and her imaginative world, a kind of obsession to relive real or imagined moments through her art in a natural playful action. Her work shows attributes of Abstract Expressionism and textural influences of classical Japanese painting.
Mika adds “I am a self–taught artist. In my work, I build stories and imaginative abstract landscapes. I am always experimenting with my process. The decisions I make on the canvas allow me to learn experientially as I paint.
The experience of learning from my relationship with art comes through by touching materials and tools, which also inspire motivation in me to create. When an image appears in my mind’s eye I move with the thought to try and capture its layers of essence, its feeling.
By disconnecting and deconstructing the invisible bridge between realities from myself and my work the process let’s me unplug and I travel to a place of freedom. I can understand my reactions to reality by feeling the answers I am in touch with from my interior world. These actions become more meaningful to me when a creative accident occurs, a revelation that gets me really excited.” ~Mika Azegami~
