Makiko Nakamura was born in Japan in 1951 and raised by her grandparents, with early training in calligraphy and traditional Japanese painting. She studied printmaking, sculpture, film-making, and painting in Kyoto and worked as a film editor. After becoming interested in Samuel Beckett, she moved to Paris in 1995 and later studied at the University of Pennsylvania, then lived in Dublin for 14 years. Her painting practice developed in relation to Beckett’s ideas of originality and in response to Robert Ryman’s minimalist approach. She works primarily with basic colors, exploring their possibilities through layering and process. Her method builds layers of paint over repeated geometric shapes, then sands the surface to refine the final surface.
"“I began visiting a movie theatre near my home very often in my early teens. I watched Japanese, European, American and many other international films, and was deeply excited by the experience, especially interested in the relationship between the real and the unreal worlds within film.”"
"“I was interested in Beckett's exploration of originality. ”"
"“there is never a question of what to paint, only how to paint” – and Nakamura's delicately assured handling of brush and knife in her oil-on-canvas works presents the viewer with a masterclass in how to do it."
"“My paintings are built slowly through layering an”"
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