Andô Michiko
(Japan 1948 – )
Junk yard XXV
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Educated at Musashino Art University, and now resident in Tokyo, Andoh's surrealist images exploit the play of light over material forms. In her disturbing series on junk yards, the discarded jettison of an industrial society becomes an organism, quietly extending its threatening tentacles in the eerie light of an uninhabited and polluted landscape. The 'open bite' technique she has employed for the background creates surface texture and re-inforces the sinister ambience of the composition.
Jackie Menzies, Contemporary Japanese Prints: The Urban Bonsai, 1992, pg. 24.
- Place of origin
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Japan
- Period
- Japan: Heisei period 1989–
- Year
- 1991
- Media
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- 100.0 x 60.0 cm image; 106.0 x 68.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., in Japanese, pencil "Michiko". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of the artist 1993
- Accession number
- 407.1993
