AZUKI FURUYA
Azuki Furuya is a mixed media artist based in Tokyo.She studied art in Tokyo and London, then graduated with an MFA from Brooklyn College in 2019. After drawing the composition from a photograph, she builds it up with layered bits of coloured paper and fragments of the photograph, then meticulously sands down the papered surface until it is exposed like a derelict billboard, and paints inside and around the contours. The patterns and colours are derived from their backgrounds, the layers become geological formation of their lives, shaved layers express vulnerability and weakness and lastly colouring empowers the subject and work.
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