Kunimi Terada
Kunimi Terada Is a native of Japan, She graduated from Musashino Art University, Tokyo Japan.
She moved to the United States 1964. She has participated in many exhibitions.
Group and Solo Exhibitions:
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2016 "LELA" Group Show, Park View Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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2013 LAartcore "Tandem-Solo Exhibit" Loa Angeles, CA |
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2012 LAartcore, "Group Drawing Show",Los Angeles, CA |
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2009 ADC Contemporary Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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2005 LELA(Lantern of the East) Art Exhibition, Pyong Taek, Korea |
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2005 Nagasaki No. 27* Peace Show |
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2005 "Asto Museum", Los Angeles, CA |
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2005 "Museo del Historico", "Museo del Puerto", "The Galleria Angel"
Ensenada, Mexico |
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2005 "Solo Show", Libby's Vintage Home & Garden Silver Lake, CA |
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2005 14* Lantern of the East International Art Festival, Thailand |
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2"d Annual LELA (Lantern of the East in Los Angeles) Art Exhibition, Modern Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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2004 International Peace Exhibition, Nagasaki Museum, Nagasaki, Japan |
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2004 LELA Art Exhibition, Pyong Taek, Korea |
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2003 LELA Inaugural Show, Modern Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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"Seeing Red", Group Show, Angels Gate, San Pedro, CA |
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2002 Group Show, Aries Gallery, Burbank, CA |
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1997 Brewery Art Walk, Downtown, Los Angeles CA |
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1996 "Five Man Show", L.A. County Museum Rental and Sales Gallery
Los Angeles, CA |
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1995 "Art Walk and Talk"
", The Beys Garden, Santa Monica CA |
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1994 - present: L.A. County Museum Rental and Sales Gallery, CA |
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1994 "6th Street Show", Santa Monica,
Artist Statement:
The basis of my work is improvisation. The beginning of a painting is a loose and free application of colors, without a too deliberate plan. As I work, shapes begin to emerge which I then persuade into a composition which suggests itself. Decisions are made spontaneously, and what seems accidental at first becomes part of an order that arises from what I see on the canvas.
There are areas of color that arrange themselves within boundaries that align, dissolve, disappear and reappear. A structure emerges that is an orchestration of colors, textures and shapes, forming a dialogue among themselves that soon becomes an image, specific but abstract. There is a • story to be told, and I listen with my eyes. A harmony unfolds, pleasing to my vision, but filled with notes of dissonance and subtle tension.
Later, what I have found changes, evolves, and becomes more defined. I discard some elements, adding others, always paying attention to the overall harmony and unity. There is always the mysterious and inevitable unfolding of a secret music that makes each canvas different from ones that have gone before. Intuition works along with conscious choice. If all goes right, the result is a visual music composed of colors, lines and shapes which combine to create a specific mood, a place in which thought, sensation and feeling can arrive together to bring forth a new picture. |
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