Recent Work by Mary Mitsuda
September 27, 2002 - February 4, 2003

For this exhibition, artist Mary Mitsuda's landscape images reflect her thoughts on change and perspective, the natural cycle between movement and stillness. The overall visual texture of Mitsuda's work is formed by layered horizontal and vertical stripes, drips and bands, suggesting stacked horizons, tapestries, trees, water, sky, maps and the human form.

Mitsuda is interested in the patterns that emerge during the painting process through use of various gestures, colors and textures. Though she builds spatial qualities of the paintings to reflect her vision of the world's natural order, she also contrasts this illusory space with the flatness of the picture plane, generally by using contrasting vertical drips as the painting's final punctuation.

Mary Mitsuda was born in Honolulu in 1949 and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of HawaiÎi at Manoa in 1976. Her paintings are represented in a number of public and private collections including The Contemporary Museum, First Hawaiian Bank, Persis Corporation, the HawaiÎi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the Tokyo Breezebay Hotel.