Painting , a whispering voice of the past, murmurs memories of places and experiences. I’ve forgotten and it doesn’t matter, yet they are still a part of my story. The noises muffle the importance painting once had and the validity it represented. I have departed from the representation in search of a kind of depth or soul. The voice of identity that seems worth having becomes silent in the surface of paint. And I find this raw quality of my own vulnerability in a provisional style of painting and mixed media, where it seems tentative, unfinished, giving the impression of haste and clumsiness that speaks more honestly about the self.
-Ronna Fujisawa
1992 BFA in Painting, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
2019 MFA Applied Craft and Design, Oregon College of Art and Craft/ Pacific Northwest College of Art
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Ronna Fujisawa is an artist and art educator based in Portland, Oregon. She works in watercolor, oil, and mixed media textiles with a focus on the organic and the subtle. Suggestions of a duality, both visually and conceptually, her work expresses a pure, raw quality through the act of painting and exploration of materials that become a metaphor of the self with expressive lines and fluctuations.