Photos by Mario Gallucci
Amanda Wojick’s exhibition Higashiyama Spring consists of three freestanding sculptures made with canvas, maple, paper, and paint. The works developed during a residency in Kyoto, in tandem with her convalescence from a severe injury. While there, the architecture of her studio space, within a 200-year-old wooden rowhouse in the Higashiyama district, became not only central to the aesthetics of her project but also analogous to her own body’s altered relationship to space, structure, and weight-bearing. Made with vibrant paint-stained canvas panels, traditional joinery, and intimate drawings of fragmented landscapes, the forms embody and reflect her visual, psychological, and physical experience of this time in Japan.
The Kyoto residency and exhibition were generously supported by Oregon Arts Commission, University of Oregon College of Design, and the University of Oregon Center for Art Research.