Mary Ijichi
Assemblage #23, 2023
colored pencil, mylar, plastic, beads, acrylic, artist's tape, museum board
15 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (frame)
Creating art brings peace and balance to my world. While working, the meditative aspects of the process ascend and immersion in a repetitive methodology envelops me in tranquility. Time and place seem to disappear. By stripping the art-making process to essentials, my art becomes a search for simplicity and unity in a complex world, benefitting myself and the viewer.
“Her approach is thoughtful and methodical; her art reflects the spirit of scientific investigation…..Just as Nikkei travel back and forth between cultures and idioms, Ijichi’s wall hangings sway and shift between perspectives and perceptions.”
Chiori Santiago, Nikkei-Heritage Vol IX,Number 1, Winter 2002 “Women Artists”
MARY IJICHI
EDUCATION
B.S.
University of California, San Francisco, CA
A.B.
University of California, Berkeley, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Mary Ijichi: Assemblages, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2017
Frottage: The Changing Surface Artspace Edition Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan
2014
Mary Ijichi, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Homage to Yayoi Kusama, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
(Text)ure George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Extrusions Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Contemporary Asian American Abstraction, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022
Gesture/Color/Form, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
60 Years of Collecting University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Echigo-Tsumari International Mail Art Exhibition 2022, Gallery Yuyama, Niigata Pref. Japan
2021
California Girls 2 Richmond Art Center, Curator: Tom Marioni
21 Expressions, an online exhibition and ebook. National Academy of Arts, Culture and Heritage. (ASWARA) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and ArtFort, India
2020
The deYoung Open Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco CA
A Global Pandemic: What It Means for Me gallery Yuyama, Niigata-ken, Japan
2019
New Encounters 2019 artspace Edition Shimizu, Shizuoka City, Japan
SIA (Society of Independent Artists), Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018
Way Bay 1 and Way Bay 2 Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2017
Half Hundred Swing Show: Homage to Joseph Cornell 2017 , Ao Gallery, Kobe, Japan
2016
Mail Art Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano, Japan
2015
AU International Contemhibition in Naples from Japan port Art Ex Museo Hermann Nitsch, Fondazione Morra, Naples, Italy
A Celebration of Mail Art Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada
2014
5X5 An Invitational, Westmont Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA
Focus Latin America: Art is Our Last Hope, Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
Ex Postal Facto, SF Center for rhe Book, San Francisco, CA
Ever Gold 5 Year Anniversary Show, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Van Proyan, Mark. Contemporary Asian-American Abstraction at Paul Thiebaud Gallery, Square Cylinder, June 26.
COLLECTIONS
Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Archive of American Art (John Held papers)
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
(Sol)LeWitt Collection
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Mary Ijichi
Assemblage #22, 2023
colored pencil, mylar, plastic, beads, acrylic, artist's tape, museum board
27 1/2 x 27 3/8 in. (frame)
Mary Ijichi
Assemblage #25, 2023
colored pencil, mylar, plastic, beads, acrylic, artist's tape, museum board
27 3/8 x 27 3/8 in. (frame)
Mary Ijichi
Assemblage #15, 2022
colored pencil, mylar, plastic, beads, acrylic, artist's tape, museum board
12 x 12 in. (image); 15 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (frame)
Mary Ijichi
Assemblage #23, 2023
colored pencil, mylar, plastic, beads, acrylic, artist's tape, museum board
15 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (frame)
