Zone d’Attente II. 2008
Silkscreen, woodcut, cotton rag, CNC plexiglas, wood and paint. 31 x 23 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami

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Five or More Sets Problem. 2008
Silkscreen, woodcut, cotton rag, CNC plexiglas, wood and paint. 41 x 31 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami

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Limbo. 2008
Silkscreen, woodcut, cotton rag, CNC plexiglas, wood and paint. 41 x 31 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami

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Zone d’Attente I. 2008
Silkscreen, woodcut, cotton rag, CNC plexiglas, wood and paint. 31 x 23 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami

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Connecting Modernist geometric abstraction to the shape of our built environment, New York-based artist MIKA TAJIMA combines aspects of sculpture and performance. A single object- for example a double-sided, freestanding, silkscreened panel- is simultaneously aligned with the fields of painting, sculpture and architecture. Her works are designed to be modular, allowing time, circumstance and personal reference to factor in their ultimate shape and design.

This was most apparent in TAJIMA‘s solo exhibition debut at New York’s Elizabeth Dee Gallery in 2007, “Disassociate” (see above). There, she created an installation of moving, reversible partitions recalling stunted cubicles or the baffles used in recording studios to minimize ambient noise, which she then reconfigured numerous times over the course of the exhibition.

Certainly issues related to architecture, and an investigation of the failures of Modernism, thread my entire practice. I often reference both art and architecture, actually, but I would say the difference is that Modernist architecture permeates everyone’s life.

MIKA TAJIMA is also part of the collective New Humans (formed in 2003)  which explores the intersecting strata of sound, installation, and performance within the context of TAJIMA’s visual art practice.