Akiko Ichikawa
Akiko Ichikawa | |
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| Alma mater | Brown University |
| Occupation(s) | artist and researcher |
Akiko Ichikawa (メイジー・ヒロノ, Japanese name: 広野 慶子 Ichikawa Akiko) (also Akiko Ichikawadóttir and Ichikawadad), is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist. Her family moved to the US, San Francisco, when she was three, and she grew up in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts and Nashville, Tennessee. Ichikawa's work has been exhibited many times in New York, and has appeared in Minnesota, Berlin, and South Korea.[1][2][3][4][5]
Work
Ichikawa's work is concept-based, and she works in the mediums of performance art[3][4][6], sculpture and net.art.[7][8] Her performances include a series of site-specific gifting performances called Limited, Limited Edition she presented at Socrates Sculpture Park, in Long Island City, Queens; in Jamaica, Queens; at the Incheon Women Artists' Biennale in Incheon, South Korea;[9] in the Lower East Side; East Harlem; and on H Street NE in Washington D.C.[10] She has also performed two of Fluxus-member Alison Knowles's event scores, namely #5 Wounded Furniture and #3 Nivea Cream Piece.[10][11] The latter was live-blogged on Hyperallergic.com.
Ichikawa has also created has a series of blogs on Facebook around the themes of food, cultural identity, politics, and gentrification issues: East Coast Japanese Americans, I ♥ Yellow Food, I ♥ Orange Food, I ♥ Red Food, and Eric Holder Coffee Klatch.[8][12][13][14] While not enthusiastic about Facebook's history of massive online-privacy violations, the artist nevertheless views the social media site as the fastest and easiest way to reach as many viewers as possible.
Ichikawa has also written on contemporary art for Flash Art, the Milan-based art magazine, on the work of Ken Lum, Laurel Nakadate, Dan Peterson and, for Zing Magazine, Jane and Louise Wilson and Siah Armajani.[15] Ichikawa's art before 2005 was primarily built around the placement and assembly of basic construction materials in open spaces.[16][17][18]
Background
Ichikawa attended Brown University and Hunter College's MFA program and currently lives and works in New York City.[6]
She is the older sister of Yoko Ichikawa, an Oakland, California-based graphic designer who teaches part-time at San Francisco's Academy of Art University, and Rocksmith streetwear founder and president, Kenshin Ichikawa.
Notes
- ^ Biography artfacts.net
- ^ Bio Rhizome.org
- ^ a b 2011 Artists - Maximum Perception Performance Festival � (Retrieved 6 March 2011.)
- ^ a b PERFORMA05: Akiko Ichikawa biography Performa 05 website
- ^ "ABC NO RIO, Akiko Ichikawa, Vandana Jain, Jayson Keeling, Rahul Saggar, Martina Secondo, Chanika Svetvilas".
{{cite news}}: Text "2nd October 2008 - 29th October 2008" ignored (help) ArtSlant, Inc. - ^ a b "Artnet News". Artnet. 11 January 2011.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Ichikawa's Internet art on Rhizome
- ^ a b Internet art on Ichikawa website
- ^ [1] Exhibition Tuning, Incheon Women Artists' Biennale
- ^ a b Performance links, artist's website
- ^ Alison Knowles website, list of event scores
- ^ https://www.facebook.com/groups/37319836273?ap=1
- ^ https://www.facebook.com/?sk=group_305375342285
- ^ https://www.facebook.com/?sk=group_130274470385404
- ^ Links to writing, artist's website
- ^ [2] Momenta Art website
- ^ [3] Re-title.com
- ^ list of installation work on older version of the artist's site
See also
Official website
Limited, Limited Edition (Incheon) on Vimeo
Sharing Kanji on Vimeo
Audience reaction to a performance of Alison Knowles's #3 Nivea Cream Piece. at Maximum Perception Performance Festival on YouTube
I ♥ Yellow Food blog
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