KAZUYOSHI TSURUOKA
Biography
Kazuyoshi Tsuruoka (b.1980) has been attending the Kobosyu studio since 1998. In the early days, he painted one of the studios wooden signs outside and seeig his enthusiasm, it was suggested to him he might like to try woodworking. Initially he would saw wood, paint it with his favourite colour, and stick it together, giving birth to a variety of creations of different sizes. Later, he began to add circles with marker pens to the surfaces. Starting with one or two circles, the number of circles he drew gradually increased. The colours of these repeatedly drawn circles were so vibrant and deep that they evolved to create an illusion of being drawn into another universe. He has now introduced a variation in the thickness of the markers used, depending on his mood, often using ultra-fine Posca pens for detail in some of his works.
Kazuyoshi sits drawing in the studio
Works
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Selected Exhibitions
2025 Avant Gardes? Yes we are!, Borderless Art Museum NO-MA, Shiga, Japan
2019 12 Moon Gifts III, Gallery Nayuta, Tokyo
2018 The Secret of Repetition, Another Art Museum, Tochigi, Japan
2018 Magic Number vol.2, Arts and Creative Mind Gallery, Tokyo
2017 Living, Musashino Art University Library, Tokyo
2016 Super Continuation: The Wind Is Blowing – The Artists Who Raised the Wind Now, Makii Masal Fine Arts, Tokyo
2015 Pokorat National Open vol.5, Arts Chiyoda 3331, Tokyo