Blue Aura Painting

Contemporary Abstract Paintings Misako Oba’s artworks include award-winning pieces are held in private, corporate, and national permanent collections in France, the U.S., and other countries. Her artworks have been collected internationally. She exhibited at galleries and art fairs in France, Belgium, Germany, Japan, and throughout the United States such as New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle. Her body of work explores human life as a journey and it examines our soul and emotions. Her work also depicts its transient nature and perspective. Light/hope in the darkness, using a personal yet universal experience beyond time and space. Her mixed-media painting often incorporates text in compositions relevant to each series’ concept. She layers and integrates timeless ancient messages/materials AND contemporary material from our time such as computer languages (codes) in an abstract manner. There are mainly two types of mixed media that she is working on; (1) Encaustic, watercolor, oil, other materials, and collage. (2) Acrylic-color-based mixed media. She often uses her own hand-dyed Japanese paper in both work. She lived/worked in New York and other cities in the United States and spent some time in Europe.