Ayumi Ishii

Central Falls, RI
Residency: August-September 2009

About the Artist

Ayumi Ishii was born in Japan and currently lives and works in Rhode Island. She received her BFA Sculpture from Purchase College, SUNY, and her MFA Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design in 2006. She was awarded residencies at Hurricane Mountain, NY, and at Vermont Studio Center. She has exhibited her work in New York and New England areas. In 2006, through RISD/Fidelity Outdoor Sculpture Loan Program she installed a temporary outdoor sculpture on Fidelity Investments campus in Smithfield, RI.

Project Description

My project proposal at Sculpture Space was to explore my ongoing series of work that refer to human heat residues as seen through a digital thermal imaging camera which are then reproduced in cast epoxy resin. I am interested in the transformation of two-dimensional digital information into tangible, resin forms that mimic the heat gradation pattern. At the residency I worked on a cast-epoxy topographical model that represents a person’s heat pattern on a chaise lounge. There will be an electrical component inside the chair which will light the model from below.