Asuka Hishiki

Winter Workspace 2013
Glyndor Gallery | January 2 – March 24, 2013  

Asuka Hishiki approaches even the most everyday vegetables and fruits as if they were exotic creatures. She paints them with the care and precision of a botanical illustrator, capturing every imperfection. These paintings are done in watercolor on stark white paper, which she leaves blank aside from her subject matter. For the past three years, her work has been shown at the International Juried Botanical Art Exhibition at the Horticultural Society of New York. In 2012, an exhibition of Hishiki’s work was on view at the Arsenal Gallery in Central Park. Her work has been exhibited in numerous shows of botanical art in New York and beyond. Hishiki grew up in Japan where she received her MFA from the Kyoto City University of the Arts.

Asian Swallowtail ButterflyType B Metamorphosis – Papilio XuthusType B Metamorphosis, 2011, watercolor on paper, 13” x 19”. Courtesy of the artist.

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