Wendy Maruyama

Wendy Maruyama has been making innovative work for 50 years. 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.

Maruyama’s work can also be found in both national and international permanent museum collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Tennessee State Museum, Nashville; Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Australia; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museum of Art and Design, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; Houston Museum of Art, Houston, TX; Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton; Mingei International Museum, San Diego; and the Oakland Museum of California.

Wendy Maruyama now works full time in her studio, which is now located at Bread & Salt, an experimental center for the arts, located in the Barrio in San Diego.

Topics + Strengths:
Discussing technical, functional and sculptural critique of furniture, hybrid objects, and thinking outside the perimeters of woodworking. Experimenting with personalizing work, or preserving memory or history within works.
Exploring the potential of materials and how they change or communicate with your viewers.
Working with galleries.

IG: @wendymaruyama

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