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Noriko Shinohara

female, born in 1953 in Takaoka-city, Japan, came to US in 1972, Japanese American

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Champagne on the Seine River 1996; 6x9; Etching and agnatint. Apollo at Bermuda Beach 1997-98; 9x12; Etching and aguatint. Place de St. Michael 1999; 35x47; Pastel on paper.
Homage to Hokusai Shunga 1999; 72'x48'; Oil Paint and oil stick on canvas. Arizona 1999; 47x35; Pastel on paper. Locker Room Series 2000; 54x66; Oil paints and oil sticks on canvas.

Themes:
nature, figurative


Review:
Noriko Shinohara
Most of Noriko Shinohara's works are figurative paintings painted in fluorescent and exuberant colors. Citing National Geographic as her "Bible," the artist says that she enjoys "filling her paintings with pink flamingoes, snaggily grinning green crocodiles, and their equally colorful human counterparts." In his review of this artist, Ed McCormick wrote, "Norico Shinohara has a teemingly fertile imagination, which seems to flow freely down her painting arm and out through the tip of her brush. She is also absolutely fearless when it comes to combining unlikely colors to create her own chromatic explosions and other sensational "special effects." (Ed McCormick, ARTspeak, December 1991) With this artist, making artwork is a way of catching and freezing some kind of jovial moments arising out of this world where nothing is perpetual and everything is transient. Available research materials of the artist in the AAAC Archives are 82 slides, two invitation cards and reviews.
Reviewed by Young Park