Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Somniloquy
October 16 - December 13, 2024

Visiting Artist Lecture

October 16 at 7 p.m.
Greer Garson Theatre, Owen Arts Center

Opening Reception

October 18 from 5 – 7 p.m.
Pollock Gallery, Expressway Tower

Yuko Nishikawa

Yuko Nishikawa creates a fantastical environment with her colorful, tactile lively forms. With a hands-on exploratory approach. She makes paintings, lighting, mobiles and sculptures using a variety of mediums, reflecting her experiences in architecture restoration, interior and furniture design, crafts and engineering.

Growing up in the seaside town of Chigasaki just south of Tokyo, she now resides in New York City. She works in her Brooklyn studio which she named Forest: a place where things grow and things decay to nourish new lives, and where people can wonder and discover something new.

Artist Statement

I started working on Somniloquy by asking myself how I can make an environment where objects are communicating with one another. I created a relationship between the objects where some are talking while others are listening. I began with the eye-level mobiles by the entry to create a transitional space, just like a tearoom would cause guests to lower their bodies in the crawl entryway. 

The ceramic sculptures, like leg, eyes and bellies disrobed at the end of the night, respond to the mobiles’ friendly motions and colors and exist in the space of complete trust, resting.