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Mitsue Hoshi

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Exhibition at KEIKO
June 2006

Hoshi Mitsue, from Kanagawa Prefecture, graduated from Musashino Junior College of Art and Design, but is essentially a self taught weaver. Her mornings begin with a walk in the forest observing the continual changes in nature. It is there that she collects the natural materials she uses for dying the threads from the cocoons of wild silk worms. In order to feature the irregular qualities of this distinctive natural silk in her exquisite tapestries and shawls, she arranges the warp and weft of her loom to weave loosly. Many of her tapestries are composed of two or three layers, and she selects differing patterns and graduated subtle colors for each layer so that when overlapped they possess an unusual dimensional depth, a concept she borrows to create the same effect for her single layered, large shawls.

1966 Graduated from Musashino Junior College of Art and Design
1995 Award - Japan Craft Exhibition (dyed fabric shawl)
1996 Entry - All Japan Craft Competition (dyed fabric shawl)
1998 Entry - Japan Craft Exhibition (Tapestry ? [En])
1999 Entry - Asahi Modern Craft Exhibition [Yu-Yu]
2000 Publication - Senshoku Alpha No. 228
Entry - Japan Craft Exhibition
Entry - Takaoka Craft Competition [Tsugi No Toki]
Entry - Japan Folk Art Museum Competition [Katarai]

2001

Entry - Asahi Modern Craft Exhibition [Fuyu-Kodachi]
Entry - Katei-Gaho Public Craft Competition [Asu eno omoi]
Entry - Japan Folk Art Museum Competition
2002

Entry - Asahi Modern Craft Exhibition
Entry - Japan Craft Exhibition
2003

Solo Exhibition - Senbikiya Gallery Tokyo
Entry - Japan Craft Exhibition

2005

Entry - Japan Craft Exhibition
Solo Exhibition - Karuizawa
Group Exhibition - Sogo, Osaka
Group Exhibition - Takashimaya, Nihonbashi Tokyo
Three Women's Exhibition - Takashimaya, Nihonbashi Tokyo
2006

Entry - Japan Craft Exhibition
Group Exhibition-FABRICATIONS : KEIKO Fine Japanese Handcraft, Boston MA
Solo Exhibition - Sawada
Entry - SOFA Chicago 2006
2007 Japan Month in Houston: Art Exhibition, contemporary Japanese Arts and Crafts
SOFA New York

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