Red on Yellow #1

Art

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HCC Permanent Art Collection

Name/Title

Red on Yellow #1

Entry/Object ID

2023.2.1

Description

A drawing with wool on a hand-woven wool canvas. The canvas background is yellow and seems to have a burlap-like texture and frayed edges. The red weaving is jagged. Most of the piece holds negative space, with the positive space being filled with red, jagged parallel weavings. The lines overlap each other in the way that highways intersect. In the top left and bottom left, one of the lines stops continuing when it meets another.

Collection

HCC Permanent Art Collection

Made/Created

Artist

Akiko Kotani

Date made

1998

Location

Category

Storage

Category

Exhibit

Exhibition

In their Own Words

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Didactic

Label

Research is a core component to Akiko Kotani’s work as an artist and her philosophy as a teacher. She wants to show students that there are many layers of meaning and organization to a work of art, pushing back against the popular belief about artists as “having their head in the clouds.” According to Kotani, artwork that stays with you is most often the result of extensive research, thought, effort, and training. With the goal of encouraging students to create thoughtfully and intentionally, Kotani asserts, “I would like the students to understand that all the work they’re doing with their liberal education, they may hate to go to one class and like another one, but they all add up to art.”