Harumi Abe

Harumi Abe is a Japanese native artist from Tokorozawa, Saitama who has lived in South Florida for nearly half of her life. Referencing Gaston Bachelard’s Poetics of Space, her layered landscapes, intend to overlap memories and sway perspective in order to serve an idea of home and represent a “topography of our intimate being,” while visually materializing belonging. Connecting her birthplace and her residence, Abe’s paintings intend to magnify a morphing relationship called shakkei or “borrowed scenery”. In search of balance and unity in design, through color and placement, the Florida landscape is the muse while Japan remains the inspiration.