Asian.Art.Showcase

  Showcasing and highlighting both contemporary and past Asian-identifying artists & creators.  

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Kay Sekimachi

Born in 1926 in San Francisco, Kay Sekimachi’s objects are at once simple yet crafted with astounding detail. Her work, which started as weavings and wall hangings, has evolved into many different and distinct permutations. 

She often creates new versions of familiar shapes and forms, such as her woven boxes, which she began making in the 1970s, or her ethereal flax and loosely woven baskets and bowls. She attended California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland from 1946 to 1949.

Since the 1960s, her fiber work has been exhibited extensively in the United States, Europe, and Asia. She has mounted solo exhibitions at the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, California, and at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles.

Kay Sekimachi lives and works in Berkeley, California. Until his death in 2003, Sekimachi was married to woodturner and fellow ACC Gold Medalist Bob Stocksdale. She received the American Craft Council’s Gold Medal in 2002.

Via. craftcouncil.org

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Kay Sekimachi, Amiyose (quadruple and tubular weave, nylon monofilament), 1965.

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Kay Sekimachi

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Sheena Liam

A Malaysian born artist and model, Sheena is known for winning Asia´s Next Top Model. As a child, she learnt the basics of embroidery from her mother and found herself revisiting the technique between travelling and modelling.

Based on photographs of herself, Sheena creates minimalist compositions in her signature dark green thread, which she uses to imitate flowing hair that spills out of the frame. The combination of secure and loose fibres create an almost sculptural aesthetic, as her static figures contrast the dynamic movement of each strand of hair.

She is drawn to figurative art and models for many of her own pieces. "In a strange way, modelling parallels my art in the sense I often have to use body language as a means of expressing a certain sort of mood. It's no different from my embroideries."

Via. Sarah Tulley, Creative Boom

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Sheena Liam for FILA

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In stitches, Sheena Liam

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Sheena Liam is a Malaysian supermodel and the winner for Asia Next Top Model cycle 2.

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Embroidery Art by Sheena Liam

Meet Sheena Liam, an international model working in Los Angeles, Paris, and London with a unique hobby that might surprise you: embroidery.

With black embroidery thread, she stitches clean feminine profiles — all of whom are reminiscent of herself. “Most of my work are based off photographs of me,” she says, “I usually work off a photo of myself to create a sketch which once finalized into neat outlines gets transfered unto canvas then I begin stitching.” Follow her on Instagram to stay up to date with her latest pieces. 

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SHEENA LIAM

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Lady Aiko

AIKO was born and raised in Tokyo before moving to New York City in the mid-90′s. Already creating art since a young age, her art career in NYC began when she started working for Takashi Murakami. She apprenticed in Murakami’s studio in Brooklyn and worked for him until the late 90′s going on to a direct a digital biography on the artist (“Superflat” 1998). AIKO continued to practice her own art and after leaving Murakami’s studio graduated from The New School University where she finished her MFA Media Studies and later met up with two American artists, the three of them would come to establish the group now known as FAILE. Creating work within the collective locally and abroad for a number of years, she moved on and established herself as Lady AIKO in 2006.

AIKO continues to create work in the studio as well as public space. She is acclaimed in the contemporary art world and well-respected within the international graffiti and street art scene.

Current Exhibitions are “BEYOND THE STREET” May 2018 in Los Angeles USA as well as the solo exhibitions “BUNNY IN THE HOUSE” at WALLWORKS Gallery NY Mar 2018, and “LADY  GO” April 2018 at Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum JAPAN.

She worked with Banksy on “Exit Through the Gift Shop” in 2010. Her large scale works indoors and outdoors are installed in many cities, including Miami’s Wynwood Walls in 2009, New York City’s Bowery Wall in 2013, and Coney Art Walls in 2015/2016/2017, all three curated by Jeffrey Deitch. AIKO has also been involved in a large collection of group shows, from “AnimamixBiennale” at Shanghai’s MoCA in 2009 to “Edo Pop” at Japan Society NYC in 2013, ‘Some Place Like Home” at Rumney Guggenheim Gallery NY in 2015 to her more recent solo show, “Sweet Heart” at The Outsiders Gallery in the UK in 2014.

AIKO has also been commissioned to create works in collaboration with Louis Vuitton, Coach, Apple, Microsoft, Kiehl’s, The Standard, W Hotel, Sanrio Hello Kitty, Isetan, Warner Bros., RED, Pepsi, Reebok and former First Lady Michelle Obama etc.

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Lady Aiko

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Hello Kitty- Lady Aiko

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Lady Aiko’s Bowery Mural, Houston St and Bowery, East Village, NYC - October, 2012

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Lee Bul

Aside from sculpture, Lee Bul’s practice spans a diverse range of media including drawing, painting, performance, installation, and video. However, it is her sculptures and installations that are most compelling. She examines shared human consciousness and historicities that pertain to folklore and myths and explores utopianism and technology, often resulting in exposing the dystopian tangents of the world we live in. Themes of immortality arise as she highlights our fascination with technology and the human body.

Lee Bul received the Noon Award at the 10th Gwangju Biennale - given to the artist who produces the most experimental work whilst embodying the biennale’s theme. She also received an honorable mention at the 48th Venice Biennale for her contribution to the Korean Pavillion. 

Via. Grace Ignacia See