Wendy Maruyama Furniture

Maruyama was influential in the early period of post modern artistic furniture.

Wendy maruyama furniture.

Wendy maruyama studio furniture. Furniture maker and woodworker san diego ca 2020 usa fellow this award was generously supported by the windgate charitable foundation. Born an american of japanes. Signed and dated to underside.

Furniture maker artist and educator wendy maruyama has been making innovative work for over 40 years. Doors open to reveal two adjustable shelves for storage. 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. 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.

For decades maruyama has designed furniture pieces and imbued them with artistic references and themes tied often to her distant japanese heritage. Jun 1980 present 40 years 4 months. 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. 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 s art is furniture. 2008 award of distinction from the furniture society wendy maruyama.

While maruyama s early work combined ideologies of feminism and traditional craft objects her newer work moves beyond the. 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. 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.