ERICA WARD
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ABOUT ARTIST
カリフォルニア生まれ東京在住の水彩アーティスト。
14才初めて経験した日本は出身のサンタ・クルーズ市と姉妹都市である和歌山県の新宮市。
その時、歴史と現代が共存する日本に感動し、大きな影響を受ける。
2009年マサチューセッツ大学日本語学部を卒業し、再びインスピレーションの源となる日本に戻る。 二つの文化が融け合った作者の頭の中では、エレキと三味線が同時に鳴り響き、舞妓と自動販売機が寄り添い合い、新幹線と電線が絡み合う。ペンと水彩からなる色鮮やかで繊細な作品は、作者にとって日本を日本たらしめる事象をシュールに合わせることで「外の目で中から見る日本」を語る。
Erica Ward is a traditional-media artist and illustrator born in California and currently residing in Tokyo. During her first visit to Japan at age fourteen, Ward was moved by the coexistence of history and modernity she saw in Japan and the experience greatly influenced her work. In 2009 she graduated from the University of Massachusetts department of Japanese Language and Literature and returned to the country that served as the source of her inspiration.
The world presented within Erica Ward’s paintings is one in which Japanese shamisen and electric guitars resound in unison, geisha and vending machines stand equal in colorful beauty, and bullet trains and electric lines weave into a single web. With fine pen lines and colorful watercolor detail, Ward’s pieces arrange what she perceives as the essence of Japan into surreal collages that tell the story of “a Japan seen from the inside through outsider’s eyes.”
14才初めて経験した日本は出身のサンタ・クルーズ市と姉妹都市である和歌山県の新宮市。
その時、歴史と現代が共存する日本に感動し、大きな影響を受ける。
2009年マサチューセッツ大学日本語学部を卒業し、再びインスピレーションの源となる日本に戻る。 二つの文化が融け合った作者の頭の中では、エレキと三味線が同時に鳴り響き、舞妓と自動販売機が寄り添い合い、新幹線と電線が絡み合う。ペンと水彩からなる色鮮やかで繊細な作品は、作者にとって日本を日本たらしめる事象をシュールに合わせることで「外の目で中から見る日本」を語る。
Erica Ward is a traditional-media artist and illustrator born in California and currently residing in Tokyo. During her first visit to Japan at age fourteen, Ward was moved by the coexistence of history and modernity she saw in Japan and the experience greatly influenced her work. In 2009 she graduated from the University of Massachusetts department of Japanese Language and Literature and returned to the country that served as the source of her inspiration.
The world presented within Erica Ward’s paintings is one in which Japanese shamisen and electric guitars resound in unison, geisha and vending machines stand equal in colorful beauty, and bullet trains and electric lines weave into a single web. With fine pen lines and colorful watercolor detail, Ward’s pieces arrange what she perceives as the essence of Japan into surreal collages that tell the story of “a Japan seen from the inside through outsider’s eyes.”
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