Mika Tajima was born in 1975 in Los Angeles, California. And she lives in New York ,and she talks about political,social and economic points of reference as her inspiration. Some of the things that she enjoys doing and does as a job too are sculpture, painting, installation and performance. When she had moved into a new studio about eight years ago it was still preoccupied by someone else. But over time it became her space. She has a special interest in mechanics of production and the mental and physical transformations that molds as she places it on the human body.
And that is one of many pieces that she has turned into a sculpture. I think that her sculpture work is amazing. She does a lot more than sculptures though, and I think that is amazing. She has entered some of her work in art shows. Some of her work overlaps ,and that is cool because then there is not just one thing that is there but multiple things. She has some horizontal pieces that move vertically. She also does plastic and fabric. She wanted to test some of the different things out environmentally. She works at a fabric workshop with the staff.
She says that a portrait is a frozen image of a particular time. And some of her pieces are a mute image of a passing moment. Sometimes she likes to do abstract art. There are a lot of people moving as well. The subject is pointing back to itself and what is perspective drawing. You have to have measurements and the right tools to make things for a sculpcher, but you have to make a gesture for it first. “I become a dance performance” is the abstract one where she is making beautiful work but making them an unusual color. She paints it, and it is like a cubic form, a cube form, and a sculpture all in one. The body is being controlled by the body movement. And you can make a sculpture pretty much out of anything. She has a lot of people come in and help her with posing in different ways so she can take a picture and she begins to sculpt it out. She has different areas where she works at to make different things. And she is loving art more and more. She is figuring out more things out with art, and she is trying out new ideas that she has now discovered that she could do.
So this first piece is like a dress, but she made it out of wood and put some bolts into it. I love the design to it and how she put the bolts in it to make it stand out a little. And she put it onto a nice stand.The next piece is like smoke. She likes the idea of it so she started playing around with it. I like this piece because I like how it looks fire in away, but it is purple and white. I love the whole idea of it.
The next piece is like a mirror with all kinds of designs in it. I like this piece because I think it looks like gears, and it is cool, and it makes you want to look all over it. The next piece is an very good texture stripe piece it took her 3 days to make. When I first saw it i thought it was the United States Flag. I like this piece because I had to take time to figure out what it was.
The next piece is a painting of some kind of space with two lines in it. I like this piece because I feel like it is taking you to another world. And because of the colors two. The next piece she calls the “Furniture Art.” But it looks like the sky. I like this piece because of the pink turning into a peachy color, and in the middle it is blue then back to a pink turning into a peachy color.
The last piece is another smoke one that she painted. The smoke is formed in the shape of a human, and towards the top of the head she made the smoke flair out to make it look like fire.I like this piece because it is different and original in a smoky way. I enjoyed looking at Mika Tajima, and I had a lot of fun with this artist.
