June 1 –June 30, 2021
SOLO Exhibition
MIKIKO OMORI
a gift for…
my special place
oil pastel, acrylic paint on wooden board
11.7 x 8.27 inches
2018
$750 (without frame)
wish upon a star
oil pastel, acrylic paint on wooden board
5.91 x 5.91 inches
2021
$290 (without frame)
tomorrow
Giclee print + hand painted (oil pastel, acrylic paint) on canvas
10.75 x 8.67 inches
2020, ed. 1/1
$220 (without frame)
Emilie ～would you like some wine together?
Giclee print + hand painted (oil pastel, acrylic paint) on canvas
8.67 x 10.75 inches
2017, ed. 1/1
$220 (without frame)
the flower you like
oil pastel, acrylic paint on wooden board
9.85 x 9.85 inches
2021
$930 (without frame)
Rose garden
oil pastel, acrylic paint on wooden board
9.85 x 9.85 inches
2021
$930 (without frame)
sakura pink
oil pastel, acrylic paint on wooden board
9.85 x 9.85 inches
2021
$790 (without frame)
cafe-milk tea
oil pastel, acrylic paint on wooden board
5.91 x 5.91 inches
2020
$320 (without frame)
piglet and peacock
oil pastel, acrylic paint on wooden board
8.67 x 10.75 inches
2019
$670 (without frame)
HAPPY DRESS UP
oil pastel, acrylic paint on wooden board
8.67 x 10.75 inches
2019
$670 (without frame)
While a university student, Mikiko Omori laid her eyes on two billboards: one for cigarettes ”Marlboro” and one for Japanese wine
“SAKE” rising side by side under the blue sky in San Francisco.
They were two unrelated ads, but they somehow caught her eyes.
She thought that she wanted to create something that casually exists in everyday life and softly drifts into the hearts of people who see it.
After seven years working in advertising, she started painting a signboard “chalk art” with oil pastels on a blackboard.
The colors of oil pastels created by her fingers, not by paintbrushes, are not pastel colors, but rather somewhat shadowed colors like a pastel color with a drop of sumi-ink.
She creates one story for each work and paints it with her own technique using oil pastel, acrylic, etc. She wishes that she could paint such works that can be around someone when they notice.
She held a solo exhibition at “A-forest Gallery NY” in New York in 2009.
Also she exhibited at the “Salon Art Shopping Paris” in Paris in 2014 and the “Art Japan/Melbourne Fringe Festival” in Melbourne from 2017 to 2019.
