Kaori Maeyama is an urban landscape painter born and raised in Fukuoka, Japan. A New Orleans resident since 1994, she worked as a focus puller and a digital audio editor before devoting herself to analog image making. She is a member of Staple Goods collective in the St. Claude Arts District and teaches at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. She has conducted workshops and lectures in conjunction with exhibitions of her work at the Willow School, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the University of Houston-Downtown, and taught as an adjunct faculty at Tulane University.

Focusing on decay and isolation of the mundane as the primary subject matter, Kaori uses a tonal palette and visual noise to amplify the passage of time and the atmosphere of ordinary landscapes. Her recent work has been reviewed on Gambit Weekly, Louisiana Life Magazine, and Pelican Bomb, and she has received residencies, fellowships, and grants from Joan Mitchell Center, Vermont Studio Center, and National Performance Network.

She holds a BA in film production from the University of New Orleans, and an MFA in painting from Tulane University where she learned to paint without paintbrushes.

For available paintings, please contact LeMieux Galleries, 332 Julia St., New Orleans, LA 70130

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