Wendy Maruyama Furniture

Furniture maker and woodworker san diego ca 2020 usa fellow this award was generously supported by the windgate charitable foundation.

Wendy maruyama furniture.

For decades maruyama has designed furniture pieces and imbued them with artistic references and themes tied often to her distant japanese heritage. Born an american of japanes. Wendy maruyama born 1952 is an artist furniture maker and educator from california she was born in la junta colorado. Wendy maruyama furniture maker and educator delves into matters of ethnicity gender and world issues in her studio in san diego ca.

Maruyama was influential in the early period of post modern artistic furniture. 2008 award of distinction from the furniture society wendy maruyama. Wendy maruyama studio furniture. She is a 1978 graduate of the boston university program in artisanry and received her master of fine arts in 1980 from rochester institute of technology.

Wendy maruyama has influenced generations of makers both as a teacher and an artist. Personal studio is at bread salt 1975 julian street san diego ca 92113. Furniture designer maker artist and educator wendy maruyama is a legend in her field. View this item and discover similar for sale at 1stdibs two door milk painted wood and bamboo studio cabinet by wendy maruyama.

Fascinated by her immigrant grandparents roots maruyama has worked over the last decade to make art about the things that inspired both emulation and satire. Jun 1980 present 40 years 4 months. Born with cerebral palsy deaf and growing up 3rd generation japanese american she discovered an interest in woodworking as a teenager and by early adulthood was one of the first two women to get an mfa in furniture design from rit. She challenges the masculine environments within the field of woodworking.

Signed and dated to underside. While maruyama s early work combined ideologies of feminism and traditional craft objects her newer work moves beyond the. Wendy maruyama s art is furniture. While her early work combined ideologies of feminism and traditional craft objects her newer work moves beyond the boundaries of traditional studio craft and into the realm of social practice.