Taka Ishii Gallery Modern is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Kyoko Murase, featuring her drawings. The exhibition features 20 new and unpublished works. 

Murase's drawing shows the artist's relaxed hands. Like drawing and coloring, basic elements of picture follows beyond limitation, and she also researches on various possibilities, like using floral leaf or sample from a magazine, which received high praise.

Born in 1963 in Gifu, Japan, and currently lives and works in Dusseldorf, Germany. She completed her postgraduate studies at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music in 1989. She subsequently studied at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf between 1990 and 1996 and completed a Meisterschuler from Konrad Klapheck in 1993. Her major solo exhibitions include, “Sapphire” Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (2010); “Fluttering far away” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi (2010) and “Cicada and horned owl” the Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka (2007). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions internationally since 1996.

*image (left)
courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery