| Echiko Ohira's assemblages, collages and large-scale constructions transform the objects of everyday life, such as brown paper bags, nails, wire and cardboard into extraordinary statements. The physical beauty and elegance of her pieces is sometimes combined with a deliberate sense of compositional disharmony. In Spine, a broken narrow column of blood red paper, the artist draws one into uncomfortable proximity to pain. Her intimate collages, made of stained bits of paper, glue and pencil marks seem to record an inner landscape, wistful and poetic. Echiko Ohira's work combines the Japanese precision of form and attention to detail with a rawness more commonly found in Mexican and American contemporary art.
From a press release at the El Camino College Art Gallery in 2002.
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