Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 12

Michele Kishita
Bioluminescence -- abstract Japanese landscape w/ woodgrain; gray & yellow lines

2020

About the Item

Michele Kishita's abstract landscape paintings on "shou sugi-ban" (burnt timber) pine wood panels address the current state of deforestation and the opposing concepts of resilience and devastation. While our forests and natural spaces continue to recede due to industry and urban sprawl, the more catastrophic losses are occurring in the rainforest where swaths the size of forty football fields disappear each minute. Suggestions of landscape painted onto the burnt surfaces depict a memory of what was while at the same time highlighting what remains and can still be salvaged. It is a reminder of the persistence and vitality of nature and our role in choosing its success or failure, which ultimately determines our own. Stylistically, Kishita’s work is deeply influenced by the strong lines and compressed space of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints, particularly the landscapes and natural world imagery of Hiroshige and Hokusai. In addition to creating her own work, Kishita is a Japanese print consultant who authenticates, translates, and appraises woodblock prints. Kishita received her MFA and BFA degrees from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. She has held artist residencies in Iceland, Russia, and New Mexico, and her work has been featured in exhibitions across the US, in Russia, and in the United Arab Emirates. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of Toyota, Kaiser Permanente, Park Towne Place, Temple University, Drexel University, Texas Tech University, the University of the Arts. Kishita maintains a studio in Philadelphia, PA. This painting was exhibited in "Absent Futures" (solo exhibition), Central Tattoo Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2/2020. It is signed, dated, and titled on the back.
  • Creator:
    Michele Kishita (1968, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2020
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Bryn Mawr, PA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU141626725622
More From This SellerView All
  • Open Water, Trade Winds: abstract Japanese inspired landscape w/ ocean, in blue
    By Michele Kishita
    Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
    Michele Kishita's recent body of abstract landscape paintings on wood panel amplify the expanse of space in the sky, placing the viewer in a floating position before the infinite, wh...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Birch, Latex, Wood Panel

  • Edging toward Spring: abstract Japanese inspired landscape w/ gold, blue & green
    By Michele Kishita
    Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
    Michele Kishita's contemporary abstract landscape paintings on wood panel collectively describe the calm and fluidity of bodies of water at specific moments of the day; the new growt...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Gold Leaf

  • Sun-Washed Inlet: abstract Japanese inspired landscape w/ gold, pastel, & wood
    By Michele Kishita
    Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
    Michele Kishita's contemporary abstract landscape paintings on wood panel collectively describe the new growth of spring; the calm and fluidity of bodies of water at specific moments...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Gold Leaf

  • Free Association II: abstract imagined landscape painting w/ flowers. blue ocean
    By Richard J. Watson
    Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
    This is a large, vertical acrylic painting of an imaginary, dream-like landscape with naturalistic flowers and abstract ocean references. Blues predominate. It is signed along lower ...
    Category

    1990s Abstract Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Acrylic, Panel

  • Free Association I: abstract imagined landscape painting w/ flowers & blue ocean
    By Richard J. Watson
    Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
    This is a large, vertical acrylic painting of an imaginary, dream-like landscape with naturalistic flowers and abstract ocean references. Blues predominate. It is signed along lower ...
    Category

    1990s Abstract Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Acrylic, Panel

  • Green Tree on Red - contemporary abstract landscape painting w/ plants, glitter
    By Henry Bermudez
    Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
    This is a brightly colored mixed media landscape / still life painting in acrylic and reflective glitter on canvas. It depicts an organic, surrealist plant form in the style of Salvador Dali against a glittering red background. IHenry Bermudez is a seasoned Latino contemporary artist born in Venezuela and based in the US. Emerged from the Caribbean tropics, his artistic life has been an unexpected hybrid of ideas informed by an acute sensitivity to the past, stenciled as part of a personal inventory onto different foreign places that throughout his life have become his home and his artistic working territory. "My paintings are steeped in mythical dream imagery within an otherworldliness of carefully constructed creature and plant forms. Further defined by my identity as a Latino, my work combines symbols and myth from ancient pre-Hispanic cultures with the iconography of contemporary art. The result of this autobiographical vision is a blend of cultural diversities that further defines itself through my immersion in societies other than the one I was born into. Through my exposure to religious and social syncretism, my visual itinerary became charged with powerful influences which provided a unique vision of the African Diaspora in the Americas, its symbolism, and iconography." - Henry Bermudez Bermudez’s journey of unique geographical, artistic and human observation has taken him from educational experiences in small isolated communities in the Caribbean up to representing Venezuela in the Venice Biennial. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA); Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY); Modern Art Museum of Mexico (Mexico City); Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin); Venezuela National Gallery (Caracas); Museum of Contemporary Art (Maracay, Merida, Maracaibo, Caracas); Modern Art Museum of Costa Rica; Museum of Art a Ralli @Punta Del Este Uruguay; and many private collections across the globe. Since his arrival in the USA in 2003, Bermudez has been commissioned by the Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia on several major projects. In 2011, he was one of a handful of artists chosen to work with the Philagrafika print collaborative founded by artistic director and curator Jose Roca. In 2012 Mr. Bermudez received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. He was elected to present an installation at The Philadelphia International Airport Art...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Glitter, Acrylic

You May Also Like
  • Extra-Large Skyscape Dramatic And Structured Heaven By Alejandro Hermann
    By Alejandro Hermann
    Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
    Introducing an extra-large painting, measuring an impressive 180cm x 180cm/70,9in x 70,9 in by the visionary artist Alejandro Hermann. Within this painting you experience an contempo...
    Category

    Late 20th Century Abstract Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Acrylic, Wood Panel, Putty

  • Blue Super Moon Over Havana, imaginative large scale abstract cityscape
    By C. Dimitri
    Located in Brooklyn, NY
    Oil paint and mixed media on repurposed bulletin board. Note, the wood border is part of the artwork, not to be mistaken for an actual "frame."
    Category

    2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

  • Oceancrush, dynamic brushwork in abstract painting with pale green, blue, white
    By C. Dimitri
    Located in Brooklyn, NY
    Oil on panel. Tribute to the ocean and all the life within it.
    Category

    2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Wood Panel

  • Superposition, greens, blues, abstracted landscape w subtle UFOs in sky
    By C. Dimitri
    Located in Brooklyn, NY
    A landscape involving the idea of quantum superposition or matter existing as a combination of multiple states with multiple outcomes. Only the viewer can determine which potential ...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Wood Panel

  • Suspension (East Sky) VIII
    By Peter Roux
    Located in East Quogue, NY
    Peter Roux combines principles of landscape and abstract painting. His cloud paintings oscillate between representational and non-objective painting by rendering recognizable cloud f...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Charcoal, Oil, Wood Panel

  • Abstract aerial landscape painting
    Located in East Quogue, NY
    Stunning textural abstract aerial landscape painting by Hungarian artist Levente Baranyai. Oil on panel, 37.5 x 50 inches. With a focus on aerial urb...
    Category

    1990s Abstract Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Wood Panel

Recently Viewed

View All