Fuyuko matsui biography of martin

As it has been previously stated, the purpose of this exhibit is to give viewers who might not have heard of Matsui Fuyuko before a taste of her art, exploring the themes of trauma, violence, loss, and misogyny that echo within her works.

Yet Matsui is not a painter who remains silent on the meaning of each work of art that she produces. In fact, her very doctoral dissertation at the Tokyo University of the Arts was a psychoanalysis of her own paintings, examining her "interests in violence, experience of loss, repression, stress, and trauma."⁶ She also hints at the fact that her art comes from extremely personal motives, a fact that has repeatedly intrigued critics.⁷ Yet rather than trying to pinpoint the exact nature of Matsui's trauma, which I find to not only be suppositional in nature but ultimately without purport, this omeka exhibi