Japanese artist Hiroyuki Hamada creates abstract freestanding and hanging sculptures. His pieces are simultaneously geometric and organic in form, and have finely textured surfaces made using a range of drill bits.
Hamada’s sculptures basically grew out of his paintings (he began his career as a painter). His interest in the object-like quality of paintings and in the physical qualities of them – textures, punctured painted ground, rough edges around the loose canvas – gave him the starting point.
The surface of his pieces gets full attention as much as the form in the space. This approach helps the piece to stay flexible during the long process of making up till the very final stage.
Hiroyuki Hamada has exhibited throughout the United States and in Europe and has been awarded various residencies including those at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Edward F. Albee Foundation/William Flanagan Memorial Creative Person’s Center, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the MacDowell Colony.
Images courtesy of Hiroyuki Hamada
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