After studying textile design at the Kuwazawa Design School, Shigeno has changed her medium of expression to oil painting and has been producing many brilliantly colored paintings depicting the changes of the seasons, and nature and atmosphere of everyday life.

The show will feature Shigeno's Scratch Series - a body of work on canvases with surfaces scratched to reveal the underlying colors of paint, and the Collage Series - a body of work created by pasting different materials layered with crayon pastel and acrylic paint.

Ikuyo Shigeno
1945　 born in Tokyo, Japan
1966　 graduated from Kuwazawa Design School (Textile Design)

Solo Exhibitions:
1990 Namiki Gallery(Kyobashi)
1996、1998、2000　Galerie Jin(Ishikawacho)
1999 Yokohama Gallery(Kannnai)
2001、2002、2003　Gallery Seizanso(Kannnai)
2004　Gallery LaMer(Ginza)
2005、2007、2009　OGallery UP・S(Ginza)
2007 Gallery Simon(Ishikawacho)

Awards & Prize:
1999、2003、2005、2007　Kanagawa Art Award(Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery)

* The text provided by Gallery Simon

Opened dates: May 29 - June 13, 2010