Ibuki Kuramochi

Artist Statement

Born in Gunma, Japan, Multi Media Artist
IBUKI KURAMOCHI specializes in artworks for exhibition;
and also specializes in live performances combining her live painting
and her Japanese Butoh dance.
She graduated at the top of her class from the prestigious Asagaya College of Art and Design in Tokyo, majoring in Contemporary Art .
She studied Butoh dance at the world renown Kazuo Ohno Butoh Dance Studio in Yokohama.

She has held a deep interest and passion in painting since her childhood   when she saw, for the first time, Ikuo Hirayama’s work about Silk Road Art. 
She works a lot with black and white, which represent the beginning and nothingness. In her paintings, we can find many themes like nature, the animal world in opposition with the human world, and eroticism.

http://www.ibuki-kuramochi.com