Michiko itatani biography examples

Early in Michiko Itatani’s career she coaxed viewers into unpredictable formal paths in painting and installation discretely probing relationships between radical pictorial composition and societal and geological boundaries.

All of her work coincided with the contemplative legacies of reductivism and phenomenology and served as a conceptual springboard for her as a painter. Itatani is now known for having incorporated a more spontaneous pictorialism –– aggressive, extravagant and noticeably arduous.

Her practice now circulates around vestiges of civilization that inhabit libraries, observatories and laboratories. Itatani rummages through the 20th century, considering all of its chaotic hits and misses, its sometimes volatile outcomes and staggering innovations.

Itatani’s work is a product of a strenuous and consuming studio practice – often producing exhibitions with scores of meticulously crafted small p