 DBS7 (Momenta), 2000 view from entrance brick, cement blocks, electrical tape room = 17' x 21' x 10' |
 DBS5 (Manhattan Mini Storage), 2000 brick, paint, lights 7' x 5' x 8 1/2'' |
 (Dis)mantle Building Set 3, 1999, (detail ) brick, furniture and trash found on site, dimensions variable |
 (Dis)mantle Building Set 3 (English), 1998 brick, studio furniture, tape, coffee dimensions variable |
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Artist's Statement
My interest in installation started in 1998 with a simple interest in seeing how
the stacking of brick, this hard but handy-sized construction material, could
interact with the viewer‚s body and psychology as well as the shape of a
given space. Early projects included furniture and trash found on or near the
site, primitively referencing the quotidian spaces that traditionally exist apart
from the gallery. The work also played with given architectural elements of a
site: the first made use of an archway, (Dis)mantle Building Set Four the massive
heaters and painted-over-and-over grills in a downtown gallery. Her Signs Are
Expressively Charged was in a unit of a Manhattan Mini Storage facility and thus
notions of mobility and modularity were reiterated in the work by a location that
already encompassed these qualities.
Far from an allegory of infinite modularity and mobility, my pieces embody a way of seeing, a doctrine of situated, sustained, transforming objectivity. The installations enact singular conflations of multiple experiential spaces: the pictorial one of illusionism, the phenomenological one of sculptural environments, and the social one of the city's fluid heterogeneity .
Akiko Ichikawa
Akiko Ichikawa
Education
| 1999 | Hunter
College, CUNY, New York, NY Master of Fine Arts, Painting |
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| 1998 | Slade School of
Art, London, Sculpture, Fall 1998 |
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| 1994 | Brown University, B.A. with Honors, Visual Arts |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2000 |
Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1999 | MFA Thesis Show, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1994 | BA Honors Thesis Exhibition, List Art Center, Providence, RI |
Two-Person and Group Exhibitions
| 2002 |
Storage and Retrieval, Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul, MN Anthology of Art, Centre
Pompidou, Paris, and online, Longwood Arts Project Cyber Residency, Bronx, NY, and online |
| 2000 |
Summer Storage (with
Rachel Urkowitz), Manhattan Mini Storage, 260
Spring Street, New York City P.S. 122 (with Rob DeMar), New York City Bulgaria, NY: Bulgarian
and American Women Artists Collaborate, |
| 1999 |
Artists Make Artists Spaces, 49 1/2 First Avenue, New York City Everything is Everything Gallery (with Javier Piñón), Brooklyn |
| 1998 | New Directions
’98, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, Juror: Eugenie Tsai |
| 1994 |
What’s the Use?, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI Annual Juried Show, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence |
Distinctions
| 2002 |
Djerassi Artists Residency, Woodside, CA |
| 2001 | Finalist, Public Art Fund’s In the Public Realm commission, NYC |
| 2000 | Independent Project Grant, Artists Space, New York City |
| 1998 | Study Abroad Grant, Hunter College, New York City |
| 1997 | Auxiliary Enterprise Board Grant, Hunter College |
| 1994 | Roberta Joslin Award, visual art department, Brown University |
Publications
| “Hyperreal
Insubordinate: Ken Lum at Andrea Rosen,” NY Arts, vol. 6, no.9,
Sept. 2001. Selected as one of “NY Arts Favorites,” one of four past articles in a special section, Feb. 2002. |
| “Jane and Louise Wilson at 303 Gallery,” NY Arts, vol. 6, no. 2, Feb. 2001. |
| “Siah Armajani at P.S. 1,” Zing Magazine, vol. 7, fall 1998. |
Bibliography
| Time Out New York Guide, 9th ed., 1/4 page photo of Momenta show in “Art Galleries” chapter. |
| Rothbart, Daniel. “Omer Fast and Akiko Ichikawa,” NY Arts, vol. 5, no. 9, Sept. 2000. |
| Nelson, Samantha. “Pick 3,” Waterfront Week, vol. 9.2, Jan. 28, 2000. |