Atsuko Tajima’s “Transformations” will debut today at the Delaware Arts Castle with an opening reception running from 6-8 p.m.
Tajima brings a child-like exuberance to her painting. She recently told WheatonArts, “My reason to paint on glass comes from a simple and child-like wonder: What if I could paint in the air, and preserve it somehow?”
By painting on glass she has found a way to bring her translucent medium to a new age. It seems almost as a dissapointment to the WheatonArts writer, that Tajima explains an enjoyment of painting on glass without a lot of concern about its history.
“None of the long history of reverse glass painting directly influenced Tajima, who spontaneously made her first painting on glass at the age of three. However, perhaps the qualities which made hinterglas (the German term) painting fascinating to so many generations did. It is a provocative coincidence that Tajima mentions Wassily Kandinsky’s color and compositions as influences on her work, even though she was not aware that the man credited with making the first abstract painting had earlier made hinterglas paintings in emulation of the glowing colorful icons of his Russian childhood.”
Tajima’s exhibit will run at the Castle – located at the intersection of Elizabeth and Winter Street in western downtown Delaware – until July 17.
