Minako Iwamura (b. 1967, Sydney, Australia) is a visual artist, raised and educated in Tokyo and New York. She received her BFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design.

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With their biomorphic forms, Iwamura’s paintings exist in a liminal state that feels both abstract and corporeal. She combines curvilinear forms and subtle shifts in color to produce compositions that radiate a kind of energetic pulse. Iwamura’s paintings use geometry, color, and pattern to explore the psychological undertones conveyed by their juxtapositions. Her site specific installations combine small-scale paintings with an intricate web of fractal-like drawings made with gossamer-thin lines of white charcoal. Iwamura’s interest lies in the exploration of dualities—geometry and nature, the singular and the collective, premeditated delineation and intuitive movement—and the slippage between them.

 

Iwamura currently lives and works in New York and is represented by JDJ Gallery, New York.