TOMOKO KASHIKI
Kashiki was born in 1982 in Kyoto, Japan. She currently lives and works in Kyoto.
Tomoko Kashiki’s beautifully crafted paintings depict an intimate world of dreams and desire. Their surfaces are created by layering acrylic paint, sanding it back, and then applying more paint, with the process repeated over and over. Kashiki’s technique and ghostly painterly style drawn on an array of references — from Heian Buddhist painting to bijinga (paintings of beautiful women), through to the early canvases of Takashi Murakami.
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