NADA Miami 2024

Moriuchi’s paintings conjure up spirituality with Mandala-like compositions in heavily wrought impasto. The heft of these built up surfaces is bodily and echoes the vigor that went into the action of creating each work. Moriuchi applies layer after layer of Liquitex paint, which accumulates on the painting’s surface topographically, becoming rugged and fantastical terrain. In a sense, she condenses the intense artistic gestures of earlier Gutai members into the corporeal textures of her canvases. Her works are practically frosted, and conjure rococo excesses, layer cakes, and sacred geometries. Moriuchi often gilds her canvases in order to provide protection and cleansing to the beholders of the paintings. Gold, the artist insists, is known for its healing and purifying properties, and activates the divine energy points of the heart and mind.