EAF06: 2006 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition


Mamiko Otsubo

  

Untitled, 2006
Steel, concrete, plexiglas, vinyl juggling ball, miniature Vitra chair, paint
5’6" x 7’ 11" x 17"
LIC QNS BRND NW CONT INTL STY BLG
360ƒ VUS MHTN SKYLN RF W/SUN UPR
SPAC LNSCPD FSBO Q POS OH 9/06-3/07
Special thanks: E&T Plastics, Vitra, & Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

With references to modernist architecture and design, and a series of the artists’ signature and carefully placed singular components, this sculpture is both a very accomplished formal composition and a comment on waterfront development and the highly valued residential housing market of New York City.

Born 1974, Nishinomiya City, Japan
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Education
2004 M.F.A. Yale University, New Haven, CT
2002 B.F.A. Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1997 B.A. Economics University of California, San Diego, CA

Solo exhibition:
Rub, Galerie Mark Muller, Zurich, Switzerland (2006)

Group Exhibitions include:
Salad Days, Artist Space, New York, NY (2006)
Art Basel 37, Galerie Mark Muller, Basel, Switzerland (2006)
I Woke Up in a Strange Place, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY (2005)
Material World, Project commissioned by the Public Art Fund, Metro Tech Center, Brooklyn, NY (2005)
Protuberance(s), Buia Gallery, New York, NY (2004)
Cross-Town Traffic, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT (2003)
Juried Selections, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (2002)
Juried Selections, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (2000)
They Came from Within, Bradbury Building, Los Angeles, CA (2000)
Ping Pong, curated by Laura Owens, Studio Space, Eagle Rock, CA (2000)

Awards include:
Public Art Fund Commission for MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY (2005)