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In ’s dappled fields of color, dozens of small pods and curved rings in pale blues, greens, and pastel hues hang in dreamlike suspensions. The Brooklyn-based artist () is known for her delicate mobiles made with recycled paper that she hand-dyes and shapes into wide, sloping bowls or flat hoops. Once dried, she attaches the individual pieces to thin metal armature and hangs the fanciful composition from the ceiling.
Nishikawa’s most recent mobiles augment the paper works with clear glass lenses that catch and refract the light, adding another dimension of color to the whimsical displays. “Looking up, clusters of mobiles against the black painted ceiling was like looking up the stars,” she writes of her recent solo exhibition at .
At the moment, Nishikawa is involved in multiple projects, including a display at opening in March and an installation at this spring. In addition to her paper pieces, she also creates ceramic works, which will be on view at in Washington, D.C., through summer. She has dozens of new mobiles available in , and you can keep up with her multi-faceted practice on .
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