Chie Fueki
Chie Fueki is a Japanese American painter. She has had an active career exhibiting her work in commercial galleries, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Fueki's intricate paintings combine influences from both Eastern and Western traditions. She currently lives and works in Beacon, New York.
Early life and education
Fueki was born in Yokohama, Japan, in 1973. She spent her childhood in São Paulo, Brazil. Fueki studied at the Ringling [School of Art & Design|Ringling College of Art & Design] in Sarasota, Florida, receiving a BFA in 1996. She received her MFA from Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1998. Fueki then studied at the Yale Norfolk School of Art in Norfolk Connecticut in 1995.Artistic practice
Fueki's intricately patterned and detailed paintings, often created on mulberry paper or wood panel, combine influences from both Eastern and Western decorative and folk arts and range in subject from sports imagery to more traditional subjects such as memento mori and portraits of friends. Laura Newman wrote that the shimmering surfaces in Fueki's paintings "give the works a sensuous, intoxicating delight of the sort more often associated with decoration than with thoughtful contemporary painting."Fueki's paintings incorporate symbolism from art of the Early Renaissance to ukiyo-e art of Japan and inspiration "from all the great influences in my life," including Piero della Francesca to Philip Guston and her contemporaries. " present moment always looks away. Everyone knows that," said Fueki. Often fragmented, seemingly quilted and embroidered, the cosmic and eternal are evoked in depictions of everyday life, existing between painted layers of paper.