Art Review: MAKOTO FUJIMURA Golden Sea

BROOKLYN RAIL
by Margaret Graham

Makoto Fujimura, “Golden Sea,” 2011.
Mineral Pigments and Gold on Kumohada, 80 × 64”. 

NEW YORK---Makoto Fujimura’s recent paintings exist on the cusp of paradox, visually collapsing the arc between macro and micro, the celestial and the terrestrial, the corporeal and the ephemeral, destruction and rebirth, tradition and innovation. Their surfaces are splendid but often difficult to get inside. As such, Fujimura is like the T. S. Eliot of contemporary painting, creating art as a response to tragedy and leaving it at the altar of humanity in the hope that it might provide beauty and consolation in the midst of devastation, sorrow, loss, and decay. [link]
"Golden Sea" ended at the DILLON GALLERY on June 8, 2013, but the companion book of the same title remains available at Fujimura's website: http://www.makotofujimura.com