Blending memory and imagination to create serene, contemplative dreamscapes.
Makiko Kudo’s whimsical scenes are populated by girls, trees, grass, flowers and small animals. Her palette is soft but varied, built up in thin layers of oil paint. The works are inspired by modernist painters like Claude Monet and Willem de Kooning, as well as classical Japanese art, and childhood television shows like Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974). Stylistically, the manga-esque figures join the Superflat movement spearheaded by Takashi Murakami. The social context of growing up in Japan is also important to Kudo. As she explains, her generation sought to resist rigid social expectations o...
Bio
Makiko Kudo was born in 1978 in Aomori, Japan, and now lives and works in Kanagawa, Japan.
At Auction
Her original work has been offered at auction on several occasions, with sale prices ranging from $6,137 to $29,302 USD.
Practice
Kudo prefers to focus her attention on one large painting at a time, with each on taking around 10 days to complete.