Seiko Tachibana
Seiko Tachibana (b. 1964) moved from her home in Japan to San Francisco where she completed her M.F.A. at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1995. This is her second exhibition at Davidson Galleries. Her work can be found in many public and corporate collections including the Los Angeles County Museum.
Seiko Tachibana
Seiko Tachibana Description
Seiko Tachibana was born in Japan and completed her Master's of Art Education at Kobe University, Japan. She received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1995 and has since received many awards including Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award. She has been living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1993. Her distinctive work balances Asian tradition with minimalist modernity. Tachibana’s work has been shown internationally also can be found in the Los Angeles County Museum, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco the Legion of the Honor, and the Portland Art Museum as well as several other museums, institutions, and individual collections throughout the USA, Europe and Japan.
Seiko Tachibana Statement
Many great minds have been captivated by the concept of a single unifying principle that governs the all that is our universe, a principle in which all things are connected by a universal truth. While we often associate this inquiry with the sciences and philosophy, it is also an important influence in the arts. I have long been intrigued and inspired by the concept of a unifying principle and have been creating artworks in which the concept is interpreted through shape, color, and spatial relationships. I create works in which elements function like organic building blocks: atoms form a molecule, molecules form a compound, compounds form a cell, cells form an organism, and so on. The marks, lines, shapes, colors, and textures that are the basic language of my work form a kind of network structure—a system of interconnected nodes that seem energized by their interaction within the network. In the interdependence, synergy, and the flow of meaning and significance within these networks, there is subtle and profound beauty.
I draw a circle. It could represent a cell, a planet, infinity, or peace. When I draw the circle, I think of the connectedness of all these things, and I draw more circles. Circles connect to circles and circles contain circles, and thus "Connection" came to be. Working with these elements I see a kind of cosmos blossom, and within it emerge areas that suggest positive and negative space.