AKEMI MAEGAWA(USA):

Akemi Maegawa is a Washington, DC based artist born, raised and worked in Japan until her early 30s when she moved to the USA. She graduated from the Corcoran Collage of Art and Design and Cranbrook Academy of Art.

She works with ceramics and mixed media and her work often responds to unique perception of western civilization because of her background strongly rooted in Japanese culture and history. Her works look deceptively simple and ironically ordinary.  However, she focuses on the beauty or drama through exploring those mundane objects to search and define a meaning of life.