Hiromi Okumura

Let colors dance! Artist StatementAs an artist I would like to save the world with my art ... at least a part of it. I would like to change the way people perceive life and experience the world. Painting is my contribution to a world where art and life come together as a holistic journey. I would like my art to lift people's spirits; it should be love songs and cheers to human life.Painting for me is dancing. Dancers create their fantastic world with bodies and emotions, as painters do with colors, paints and brushes. I paint because painting is physically direct; this is a quality it shares with dance. Physicality is an important factor to me in art making, and I love the direct response of paint. As a painter, I try to let colors sing and vibrate to express energy, movement, and space. Like the dancer, music drives my creative force and helps move my brushes. If you could see me paint, you might think I am dancing -- my feet and my brushes move rhythmically. In fact, I love to dance, and dance, improvisational dance in particular, informs my painting. Dance is energy and movement through space. Similarly, as a painter, I am very interested in movement in space; my forms come in and out of space as they move throughout the pictur...

Iowa State University, Ames, US, MFA, Integrated Visual Art,