Gallery Yukiko Nakajima is pleased to present the solo exhibition KUMI KORF.

It would be no exaggeration to say that she took up painting late in life. After raising her children, she began studying art at Cornell University's Graduate School of Fine Arts at the age of 40. Born and raised in Yokohama, Japan, she moved to the USA when she married. She has lived as an American ever since. Having originally studied architecture at university, printmaking was probably the right technique for her to express herself through the construction of planned, complex layers. 　The themes of her prints are water, Japanese culture, family and the happiness of the many people around her. It is natural to be influenced by the beautiful and tranquil water landscape and the nature that surrounds us in our daily lives. The second theme of my work is undoubtedly Japanese culture. The calligraphy and paintings of Honami Kouetsu (1855-1637) and the kana script appear as motifs in his work. Her works show her continued love, attachment and study of Japanese culture even after she left Japan. At the heart of her work is the happiness of her family. She experienced the war as a child, living in an evacuation zone away from her parents. Happiness is not easy to come by and there are people who struggle with war and poverty as a normal state of affairs. The basis of love is the family. The title of a very beautiful film, "Swimming in the Radiation", is unforgettable. I found a great love of humanity in the work when I realized that the images contained a thorough social critique of the pollution of our everyday lives.