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Kiyomi Iwata
Born: 1941, Kobe, Japan


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kiyommi iwatakiyommi iwata 4ki Aperture Two
silk organza
59" x 14" x 13.5", 2005
$7,000
kiyomi iwata 6ki Aric Grid Hanging with Tank Eleven brass mesh, gold leaf, painted silk organza, french embroidery knots. Surface has a writing of short poems but are erase by gold powder and not legible. 11" x 11", 2002, $2,600

 

kiyomi iwata 7ki Aric Grid Hanging with Tank Twelve brass mesh, gold leaf, painted silk organza, french embroidery knots. Surface has a writing of short poems but are erase by gold powder and not legible. 11" x 11", 2002, $2,600

 


kiyomi iwata 1ki Water, Earth & Sky 2
silk organza, gold leafed
& fabricated

38 x 38 x 6
96.5 x 96.5 x 15 cm, 2002
$14,000

Selected permanent collections and exhibition venues:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Museum of Arts & Design, New York, New York; De Young Museum, San Francisco, California; Musée Cantonal Des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne Switzerland (International Biennial of Tapestry); Savaria, Museum, Szombathely, Hungary (International Biennial of Miniature Textiles); Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Cleveland Museum of Arts, Ohio (Small Works in Fiber – traveling exhibition).

Statement: After decades of living in the United States, I am still surprised that my work continues to be influenced by the cultural tradition of my up-bringing in Japan. In my work, I explore the boundaries of East and West through absence and presence, void and volume.
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6ki Aric Grid Hanging with Tank Ten, Eleven and Twelve
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Statement:
After decades of living in the United States, I am still surprised that my work continues to be influenced by the cultural tradition of my up-bringing in Japan. In my work, I explore the boundaries of East and West through absence and presence, void and volume.

Water, Earth and Sky is created with silk organza. The bottom represents water, the heavily embellished gold area, earth, and the upper section, sky. The translucent and transparent qualities of silk organza express the mysterious nature of Water, Earth and Sky, our universe.
                                                                                                                   Kiyomi Iwata
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6ki Indigo Box
dyed and fabricated, silk organza, stiffened with wire stitching, 7" x 7"x 7" , 2007
$2,800

cat 33 cover Catalog #33
BEYOND WEAVING: International ArtTextiles

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Contemporary Textile Art Volume & Void
Book #13
CONTEMPORARY TEXTILE ART:
the collection of the Pierre Pauli Association

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Book #B26
VOLUME & VOID: Contemporary Basketry

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