Introducing our first Behind the Artist video!

I am JUURI (pronounced as the English name “Julie”), a Tokyo-born Japanese + American artist currently residing in Norman, Oklahoma in the USA. My work portrays the delicate beauty of the female face, often enveloped by traditional Japanese patterns, motifs, and flora. These colorful elements are combined through layers of mixed media, gold leaf, and strategic paint drips. I explore the juxtaposition of broad washes and tight detail, realism and non-objectivity, tradition and modernism, innocence and mortality. Fashion, film, music videos, and literature all provide me with inspiration for my surreal-looking subjects. I hope you as the viewer are engaged, intrigued, mesmerized. My work is a true representation of the thoughts and strivings that are in my soul.

www.juuriart.com
www.Facebook.com/juuriart
@juuriart
www.juuriart.blogspot.com

produced by Lauren Carter
directed by Victoria Dickinson
edited by Cassie Ketrick
lighting by Scott Mellgren
song: “In the Ear Park” by Department of Eagles