WWBLD/ Gyoza/ Mosura

Michiko Marukami

WWBLD/ Gyoza/ Mosura

2017

WWBLD, 2017, Ceramic, 14"x12"x2" / Gyoza, 2017, Ceramic, 3"x4.5"x3" / Mosura, 2017, Ceramic 13.5"x8.5"x8.5"

I like to call most of my sculptures "rocks". The stillness, ancientness, humility, accessibility, and universality of what is and what makes a rock a rock provides an excellent canvas for the seemingly irrational combination of images. The drawings on the sculptures, tend to be irreverent, disjointed, graffiti-like, tangential, humorous and dark.

This arrangement consists of conflated imagery of Asians, Asian-Americans, Asian-ess, and Asian influence on Americana and American pop culture - with an added tinge of a post-apocalyptic nuclear disaster. They can serve as pseudo-artifacts with wrong/truncated/distorted history presented, denying the viewer access to information as well as the literal insides of the closed form pieces.

Michiko Murakami was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art (2015) and BA from Cal State University, Los Angeles (2009). She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

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