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Fuyuko Matsubara

Specialty: Fiber

My weaving technique is a combination of warp painting and weft painting. I created this technique in order to achieve the juxtaposing of imagery and color with an effective weave structure. I also enjoy silk painting which is a process that enables me to work in a more improvisational manor. I strive to produce as thin a line of resit as possible to minimize the amount of white between the carefully selected adjacent colors. My imagery in both weaving and silk painting expresses the vivifying quality of light. It illustrates an invisible and imaginative world of my own vision.

Fuyuko’s Biography

Fuyuko was born and grew up in Sapporo, northern Japan. She moved to Tokyo for the purpose of studying at Musashino Art University, where she received a BA in Industrial and Craft Design, a MA in Product Design. After working as an interior designer and a professional artist, she came to the United States in order to study further at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan where she received a MFA in Fiber Art in 1984. Fuyuko’s main medium is pictorial weaving which involves complex methods of dyeing and re-weaving. It is internationally recognized along with her other worldly spiritual imagery and received many awards. She also works on silk painting and is working on the theme of “Light of Seeds,” expressing energy of growth. In her most recent series are entitled “Lightscape” and “Blossoms of Light”, she depicts the positive quality of light. She has been exhibiting her work nationally and internationally in both solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums. She has received Individual Artist Grants from New York Foundation for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Hand Weavers Guild of America Award, and the First Prize in “Fiberart International”. She served at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a Senior Restorer and taught fiber and textile art courses in numerous institutions. She recently retired from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Now she is enjoying her free time producing art work, raising plants and animals, watching nature, and visiting botanical gardens, galleries, and museums.