Yukiko Nishiyama, who mainly creates her works in Kyoto opens her first exhibition in Nagoya here at Standing Pine cube. Using Japanese traditional wax-resist dyeing technique, batik, the delicate lines of her weaves simple yet graceful images on canvas.

Artist statemet
People would have outlines or fields in their mind which shape themselves. On the other hand, sometime the mental border line between ownself and others become unspecific and it would bring confusion. I'm considering what are these unspecific things among our mental distance, tension, fluctuation and unstable situation. Based on these interesthng I'm drawing people by translating the mental distance among people, the projection of images and its synchronization in the situation, the scene with some story which shows the complicated situations narratively and try to show the world by different perspective.

Currently, I'm drawing women mainly. Women have been drawn by several features with symbolic iconographies for example goodness and fabular features in myths. At the same time, these traditional motifs in western paintings have been used for the hand craft as iconography and the portrait of women making handcrafts are painted with social background. I'm focus on the phenomenon that crossover some fields and drawing the women's portrait by technological technique.

I consider about the narrative which exist in the mental distance among people and the common image between historic allegory and story and paintings which these stories are drawn with the concern and techniques which mentioned above. Also I try to portray the women who have the tension or apprehension which is produced by the situation several relationships which are complexity crossover and superficial overlap exists. I hope these creations will be the mirror which reflects our world and lead the awareness for the world in front of us.

Yukiko Nishiyama
2003　 MA, School of Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts/ Kyoto, Japan

Solo Exhibitions
2001　Art Space Niji/ Kyoto
2005　"seeing with blind eyes" Contemporary Art Center of Osaka/ Osaka
2009　"In between the mirror" PANTALOON/ Osaka
2010　"a suite" neutron kyoto/ Kyoto
"Portrait" Showcase/ MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY/ Tokyo

Group Exhibitions
2002　"2002 Kyo-Ten" Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art/ Kyoto
2003　"ART CAMP in CASO" Contemporary Art Space Osaka/ Osaka
2005　"Gunma Biennale 05" The Museum of Modern Art Gunma/ Gunma, Japan
"P＆E" ARTCOURT Gallery/ Osaka
"ACG Eyes－narrative－" ARTCOURT Gallery/ Osaka
Museum of Some Seiryu/ Kyoto
2009　 "ART CAMP" Gallery Kunst - Bau/ Osaka
Museum of Some Seiryu/ Kyoto
"Aosando ARt Fair" IOSSELLIANI T-02-IOS/ Tokyo
2010　 "VOCA 2010" The Ueno Royal Museum/ Tokyo

Awards
2004　The First Prize at Contemporary Art Contest with Yasumasa Moriumura, Osaka Contemporary Art Center/ Osaka

Public collection
Museum of Some Seiryu/ Kyoto(Daimatsu Co. Ltd.)

* The text provided by STANDING PINE - cube.

Period: Sunday, June 12 - Sunday, June 3, 2011
Venue: STANDING PINE - cube
Opening party: Sunday, June 12, 2011, 18:00 -