NAGISA YAGI 

-Print works-

Nagisa YAGI

-Biography- 

Nagisa Yagi is an artist working mainly as a printmaker. Recent major exhibitions include “Animal Trail” at Niigata Eya (Niigata); “Adventures in Representation: Iconoclastic Abstraction” [Atsushi Tanikawa Project] at Gallery Ko (Tokyo) in 2024; Collection Exhibition “Dream Continuation, Story Beginning: The Beginning of the Story” at Kurobe City Museum of Art (Toyama); “Exhibition of Japanese Contemporary Prints” at Kersevan Gallery (Croatia) in 2022; and “Mirror Image of the Matters” at Niche Gallery (Tokyo, Japan) in 2019, etc. 

 

In the “Mirror Image of the Matters” series, the artist focuses on the open space and the closure that occurs by juxtaposing and binding the “front side (plate)” and the “back side (printed image),” which is the structural providence of print expression. In her new “Fragment” series, she attempts to approach the essence of “being” by using only a simple accumulation of lines and eliminating the need to “copy.” 

 

She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design, received her MFA from Tama Art University, and was selected as a domestic researcher by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. Currently based in Japan, she teaches at the Joshibi Junior College of Art and Design. 


八木なぎさは、主に版画家として活動するアーティストです。
近年の主な展覧会には「Animal trail」新潟絵屋(新潟)、「表象の冒険-抽象のイコノクリティック」[谷川渥企画] ギャラリー鴻(東京)2024, 「Animal trail」 Niche Gallery(東京)、コレクション展「夢の続き、物語のはじまり」 黒部市美術館(富山)2022、“Exhibition of Japanese Contemporary Prints” Kersevan Gallery(クロアチア)、などがあります。

「Mirror image of the matters」シリーズでは、版表現の構造的な摂理である「表側(版)」と「裏側(刷られたイメージ)」を並列し綴じ合わせることによって開かれる空間と、そこに生じる閉鎖性に目を向けています。また最新の「Fragment」シリーズでは、調子(トーン)をつけず、単純な線の集積のみを用い、「写す」ことを排除した表現によって「在る」ということの本質を探る試みをしています。

女子美術大学卒業、多摩美術大学修士課程修了後、文化庁国内研修員として小作青史氏の元で凹版の平版刷り技法を研究。現在は日本を拠点に活動しています。女子美術大学短期大学で教鞭を執っています。

-Animal trail- series

fragment 2021-11

 56.0×88.0  (cm)
 lithograph ed.3 2021


fragment 2022-07

 50.0×65.0  (cm)
 lithograph ed.3 2022

fragment 2022-04 

80.0×120.0  (cm)
 lithograph ed.3 2022

fragment 2021-07 

80.0×119.0  (cm)
 lithograph ed.3 2021

fragment 2021-12 

38.0×45.5  (cm)
 lithograph ed.5 2021

fragment 2020-10

46.5×58.0  (cm)
 lithograph ed.3 2020

fragment 2020-03c

33.3×33.3(cm)
lithograph  ed.3  2020 

fragment 2020-03a

33.3×33.3 (cm)
lithograph ed.3 2020

fragment 2020-03d

33.3×33.3(cm)
lithograph  ed.3  2020 

fragment 2022-01

53.0×41.0  (cm)
lithograph  ed.5  2022 


fragment 2020-12

 50.0×65.0 (cm)
 lithograph ed.3 2020


fragment 2021-10

 60.0×88.0 (cm)
 lithograph ed.3 2021

fragment 2022-06

45.0×65.0 (cm)
lithograph  ed.3  2022


fragment 2020-09

 57.0×88.0 cm
lithograph  ed.3  2020 

-Mirror image of the matters- series

marsh

 43.0×56.0 (cm)
 lithograph ed.20 2018

genesis

 75.0×213.0  (cm)
 lithograph ed.10 2014


Two tracks on the south side 

36.0×104.0  (cm)
 lithograph ed.20 2015

rain 

45.0×90.0  (cm)
 lithograph ed.20 2016

three worlds 

27.0×70.2  (cm)
 lithograph ed.20 2016

The sound of waterfowl flying off

57.0×106.5(cm)
lithograph  ed.20  2017 

three shadows

67.0×102.0 (cm)
lithograph ed.10 2017

Bridges

15.3×111.0(cm)
lithograph  ed.20  2018 

the origin of plant

49.0×151.0  (cm)
lithograph  ed.10  2018 


night and day

 28.0×38.0 (cm)
 lithograph ed.20 2018


spot

 20.0×28.8 (cm)
 lithograph ed.20 2018

flux

50.0×216.0 (cm)
lithograph  ed.10  2018


hollow 

 50.0×146.0 cm
lithograph  ed.10  2018