Mineko Grimmer

Mineko Grimmer (美音子グリマー, Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, Japan 1949) is a Los Angeles-based installation sound artist.[1] She was born and raised in northern Japan and received her B.F.A and M.F.A from Otis College of Art and Design.[2] Her work is influenced by both Eastern and Western cultures. She is inspired by the chance elements of John Cage as well as notions of time in Shinto shrines and Zen Gardens. Sound and silence are key elements in her work. The sculptures are finely crafted out of materials like bamboo, redwood, stone and water.[3]

Education and early work

In the 1970s as a student at Otis she photographed the passage of time by photographing natural phenomena like shadows, waves and wind. At this time Grimmer started photographing blocks of ice and then freezing objects in blocks of ice[2] The sound element intrigued her and in 1980's Grimmer started adding the sound element of melting ice in her installations.[4][5] The first ice sculpture was shown at the Japan America Community Culture Center in downtown Los Angeles.

Work and career

She has collaborated with composers like Carl Stone, Mamoru Fujieda and John Cage.[2] Cage and Grimmer collaborated on a project at MOCA in 1993.[6] John Cage has described her work as "beautiful and beautiful to listen to".[2] Her sculpture is also included in John Cage's Number pieces. Her work has been included in the SoundCulture Festival held in Japan in 1993.

Collections

Public projects
  • CMC Medical Plaza Foundation, 1989

References
  1. "Mineko Grimmer's multi-sensory art is on display at Cuesta College". sanluisobispo. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  2. COLKER, DAVID (1992-08-09). "Sculpturing With Sound : Mineko Grimmer uses ice, pebbles and other materials to create works that are as pleasing to listen to as they are to look at". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  3. "Art review: Mineko Grimmer at Koplin Del Rio". LA Times Blogs - Culture Monster. 2011-03-31. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  4. Fuller, Diana Burgess; Salvioni, Daniela, eds. (2002-05-29). Art/Women/California, 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersections. University of California Press. pp. 289. ISBN 0520230655.
  5. Davis MacNaughton, Mary (1987). "Sound and Silence: The Sculpture of Mineko Grimmer". Arts. 62: 54–58.
  6. "Mineko Grimmer: The Dialogue". Artweek.LA. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  7. "Artworks Search Results / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  8. "Singlewheel". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2017-09-30.
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