Beyond the Journey of Light and Life, the latest series of new work from Japanese encaustic artist and photographer Misako Oba, explores human life as a journey, and is a metaphor for our lives. It is both a deep examination of soul and an exploration of universal experiences. In Oba’s work you will often find the contrast of darkness and light. Oba is drawn to light(s); natural lights such as stars or sun shines and also artificial ones such as lights in cityscapes. Oba’s work is also conceptual and suggesting perspective.

CG Projects is pleased to announce the opening reception for Beyond the Journey of Light and Life on Friday, November 7th at 6PM. The exhibition runs from November 7th, to Saturday, November 29th.

About Misako Oba

Visual artist Misako Oba is currently based in Seattle, New York, and Japan and travels often. Her artworks have been exhibited internationally in France, Belgium, Germany, Japan and the United States. Oba’s works are in private and corporate collections as well as in public collections such as in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Magazines and newspapers have interviewed her about her life and artwork. Oba has received several awards including the First Prize in The Pollux Awards/The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards in 2011. In 2010, she was awarded to “PAA Artist-in-Residency,” and spent the summer in Pennsylvania to create the series of encaustic mixed-media work.

Oba’s work explores human life as a journey, and is a metaphor for our lives. It is both a deep examination of her soul and an exploration of universal experiences. In her work you will often find the contrast of darkness and light. It also depicts the beauty of life with its transient nature.

She has spent much of her career exploring these themes using photography including a traditional chemical process to produce gelatin silver prints and toning. As she continues pursuing art, she has expanded to mixed-media painting, especially incorporating text, photographic images and encaustic that based on the individual concept of each series.

Her early career was in broadcasting, as a newscaster on Japanese television both in New York and in Japan. Her responsibilities involved film direction and editing that first gave her an appreciation of the power of visual imagery. This experience became the basis of her visual arts career.

She studied photography and other media in a master’s program in the U.S. and did additional studies in France and Japan. In 2011, two photography books “PACTUM” and “The Gift of Loss” were published and are available as well as the original photographs.In 2014, her monograph “FAUSTUS” (fine art photography book with some mixed-media works and a story in bilingual)is going to be published in November by Sokyusha in Japan and will be available internationally. Her encaustic work is included in the book, “Encaustic Revelation,” published by NorthLight Book in the U.S.

About CG Projects

CG Projects is a gallery space created to give visibility to local and more international artists, test new initiatives and address a further attention to the local community.

The gallery features contemporary art in all mediums and genres that incorporates a virtual connection with the international zeitgeist and can be further described as having an implied vitality meant to transcend the rules of the art world, marketplace and academia.

Based in historic downtown Williamsport, PA, CG Projects is located at 140 West Fourth Street. Gallery hours are Wednesday-Saturday from 11am-7pm.