Biography
Ayano Ohmi
Ayano Ohmi studied journalism and
art history at Sophia University in Tokyo.
In 1987 she was sent by her employer to the United States to intern
at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum in
New York City, where she eventually settled.
Ms. Ohmi
received a master of fine arts degree for sculpture from the
City College of New York. She now works as a sculptor and teaches
art at the Metropolitan
Montessori School in New York City.
Metropolitan
Montessori School
325 West 85th Street
New York, NY 10024
Telephone:
212.579.5525
Fax: 212.579.5526
Her art has been displayed prominently at:
The Barbara
Greene Fine Art Gallery
Chelsea, New York City
Email address:
leafdreams4me@yahoo.com
In Search of the Spirit
Library Call #: j700.952 H1987iImagine that
a person could be considered a national treasure.
"Describes the creations of some of Japan's Living National Treasures,
artists who are involved in various Japanese arts, including Yuzen dyeing,
bamboo basket weaving,
Bunraku puppetmaking, swordmaking, Noh theater, and neriage ceramics."
A Woman's Space Is
"In
an installation titled "A Meditative Scenery," artist Ayano Ohmi of New
York City
worked in bamboo, rattan, clay and twine to construct a group of totemic
figures
that explore the symbols of Brazil, West Africa and Japan cultures. She
describes it
as an installation of "closed limits - an interior space, or of open limits
- an out-terior space"
because it changes its relationship to viewer and site via a flexible
frame of
calligraphic movements and narrative evocations."
by Ayano Ohmi
Email: ohmi826@yahoo.com
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