Midori Furutate (she/her) is a self-taught artist with a music background, based in New York City. She was born and grew up in Tokyo, Japan. Her art focuses on paper sculptures connected to nature. She has exhibited in a two-person exhibition at BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY in 2024. Her selected group exhibitions include “RESPIRE” curated by Jennifer McGregor, at BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY, “Animalia” curated by Alicia Degener, at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY, and “Spring, Celebration for the Earth” at Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY. She was a 2023 honorable mention recipient of an annual juried show at BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY. Her drawings are also seen in a monthly column about plant scents presented by an aromatherapist in a Japanese local newspaper.

Furutate’s work captures entities of this earth; existence of the spirit and soul that have or have had imprints of physicality and the beauty of moments on this planet, honoring all life forms. She expresses the intangible through tangible with great appreciation for the unique sense of emptiness that is natural to Japanese aesthetics; the empty space revealed in paintings, space between sounds, movement, or words - the use of poetic space.

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