MURKOS
Born in Osaka/ Graduated from Osaka University of Arts, Oil Painting Course
After temporarily taking a break from painting and working in other industries such as finance and apparel, she resumed creating illustrations with acrylics and has done a lot of client work for key visuals of commercial facilities and product creation. She specializes in portraits and still life paintings with vivid colors and light touch lines. She has also started to produce oil paintings, acrylic paintings, and three-dimensional works, which have been exhibited in solo and art exhibition at her base in Osaka.
Sometimes we feel different things even if we have the same experience, and sometimes we come to the same idea even if we have different experiences. MURKOS is also a figurative expression of a small philosophy that emerged within her, and she creates works based on the concept of how to perceive and think about things in order to live comfortably and peacefully.
solo exhibition
2023 「PIN」THE 9X OSAKA / Osaka, Japan
2022 「1103-1113」chignitta SPACE / Osaka, Japan
exhibition
2024 YOU WANT SOME SPECIAL / Kyoto,Japan
BAMA / Korea
2023 Diaf / Korea
Osaka Takashimaya / Osaka, Japan
HIRAKATA TSUTAYA BOOKS / Osaka, Japan
BAMA / Korea
2022 ART GOES ON / Osaka, Japan
2021 Kiyo Bank presents UNKNOWN ASIA 2021 / Osaka, Japan
UNKNOWN ASIA EXTRA 2021 / Osaka, Japan
Sense of awareness of the invisible
This work is based on the concept of “a sense of awareness of the invisible. People and things have stories that lead up to them, but because they are not visible, we usually pass them by. We may want to know or be aware of what we cannot see because of something such as environment, mindset, or timing. Nowadays, if we want to know something, we can see a lot of information on our computers or smartphones. We can learn about bits and pieces that someone left behind about past events. What is important is to have the desire to know and to keep in mind that there are things that we cannot see.
Oil painting is made up of two layers. After the first layer is painted, a primer is applied on top of the first layer, and a second layer is added.
The first layer is digital art and the second layer is physical art.Digital art can be viewed by scanning the QR code.
The title of the artwork is a date. The date is just a marker for each day. A day that is nothing to someone else may be a special day to someone else. The first layer of digital art represents a day in someone's past, while the second layer of physical artwork represents a day closer to someone's present.
Flower -mirror-
The concept of this work is “a sense of awareness of the invisible.” I created the work to make people aware of the backgrounds of people and things other than themselves.
This work using mirrors is exhibited with the idea that it is important to look at what you feel, why you are interested in it, and why you want to know about it.