Tomoe Nakamura

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Age: 42
City: Minamikawachi Gun
Country: Japan

Joined: Aug 2008

Hello. Visitors!

Tomoe Nakamura was born in 1967 in Osaka Japan. She is a visual artist, photographer, and writer. Nakamura is currently living in Osaka, Japan, and taking online courses from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco USA. She has visited the U.S. continuously, since she was 12 years old. She is interested in mixed media, travel photography, collage, recycled art, and book arts. Her themes relate to both natures, city scenes, travel writing/photography, still life.

In 2000, Nakamura obtained a Summer Scholarship at the Academy of Art University where she began her studies in photography. She studied fine art photography, book arts, painting, and mixed media at the Academy of Art University, College of Santa Fe, and San Francisco Art Institute. The discovery of book art genre allowed her to create works that encompassed all of her interests including painting, mixed media, collage with recycled materials, and photography. She was influenced by environmental and conceptual artists like Cristo, Andy Goldsworthy, and Robert Smithson. Nakamura hopes to present her art outside of gallery settings in order for audience to be able to touch and interact with the art, and make audience aware of nature with her previous photographs and recycled materials.

In 2005, Nakamura and her partner, Alejandro Galicia Chavez participated in the Jizo for Piece Project in Hiroshima Japan. They created a digital drawing that was printed on a hand-made Japanese style coat (called happi) for one of the American Buddist group member to wear. In 2008, her mail art, post card size prints, were sent to Indonesia to promote protecting nature with other mail artists.

She is intended to establish graphic design stationary design store with her partner in near future.

You can view more works in the
Tomoe’s Fine Arts on Mac
Tomoe Nakamura Fine Art and Photography on Red Bubble

My blog
Artist Galicias’s blog (Japanese)

Thanks for viewing. (^_)