Himeka Murai
Himeka Murai is a Japanese artist based in Brooklyn, New York, who has a graphic design background. Graduated from Fashion Institute of Technology in May 2021 (Associates in Applied Sciences in Communications Design), she has been making a lot of paintings - most of which are sculptural.
She uses natural materials that are easily accessible in her surroundings, such as paper, egg, flour, and vegetables. She has a collection of glue guns, which she puts to work with those natural materials as a way to process the current state of our natural environment, where artificial materials like plastic permeate the living ecosystem. Himeka intuitively builds organic/nature-like forms in her paintings, guided by her emotional responses to visual forms and material textures, which she observes on nature walks as well as within the two built environments she calls home: Tokyo and New York City
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