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Karen Shiozawa

KAREN SHIOZAWA

Galaxy Carnival Whitestone Gallery 19 February–27 March 2022 Taipei
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Karen Shiozawa was born in Kanagawa in 1998. Shiozawa spent several years of her childhood in the Netherlands and is currently a postgraduate student at Tokyo Zokei University. She was awarded the Best Formative Art Prize at the Asian Creative Art Exhibition 2018 held at The National Art Center, Tokyo. Shiozawa is consistently seeking to expand the realm of communication mediated through her work. While projecting her childhood memories and everyday feelings into the two-dimensional works, she is also aiming to represent a world that is perceived through means other than sight by cultivating ways of expression using sound, light, and three-dimensional forms.

The boundless galaxy is the major scene in Shiozawa’s works. She uses acrylic, oil, and alkyd resin on wood board to build up the exceptional appealing layers of light and shadow in the Milky Way. Growing up in the Netherlands, her compositions and lines feature European elements, such as wooden windmills, classical arches, and church steeples. To present the visional and realistic scenes, Shiozawa scrapes the paint away with different sizes of technical pens. Through her paintings, the audiences can glimpse the imaginary connection of their inner consciousness along the breach of the world.

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Born in Kanagawa in 1998, Karen Shiozawa spent several years of her childhood in the Netherlands and graduated Major in Fine Arts Graduate School of Tokyo Zokei University. Shiozawa is consistently seeking to expand the realm of communication mediated through her work. While projecting her childhood memories and everyday feelings into the two-dimensional works, she is also aiming to represent a world that is perceived through means other than sight by pursuing the phenomenon like sound and light.

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Established in 1967, Whitestone Gallery is a leading Japanese gallery presenting a broad spectrum of Japanese art from the post-war to contemporary in spaces across East Asia.

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Whitestone Gallery contemporary art gallery in Taipei Taiwan
Whitestone Gallery
1F, No. 1 Jihu Road, Neihu District, Taipei, Taiwan
+886 2 8751 1185
http://www.whitestone-gallery.com

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