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Makie Hino
The surface of Makie Hino's pastel paintings has fabric-like texture. She uses pastels to creates the delicate tones with layers of criss-crossed lines of colors. "With crosshatching, however, the visual effect is like a piece of fabric. From a distance, the fabric may appear to be green but when you take a closer look, you find that it is woven with blue and yellow threads. …", she wrote in the featured article in the Pastel Artist International magazine(Sept/Oct 2002).
Hino was born and grew up in Japan, and has been a resident of the United States since 1972. She studied painting and print making at The School of Visual Arts, The New School of Social Research, The Art Students League of New York, The Pratt Graphic Center and The Manhattan Graphic Center.
She started her successful series of one-person shows of oils and pastels at the Newmark Gallery(now closed) in New York City in 1985. Since then, she has been showing her works in numerous one-person and group shows in New York and other cities in the United States, England, Canada, Italy and Japan.
Her works have been accepted by numerous juried annual shows of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Allied Artists of America, Salmagundi Club, Pastel Society of America, Audubon Artists, Knickerbocker Artists and National Academy of Design. The awards she received from these shows include among many others, The Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Medal(82 & 87) for her still life paintings in pastel from Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club and The Silver Medal of Honor for her portrait painting in oil from The Allied Artists of America(77).
In 2002, her color mezzotint "Narcissus" was one of the selected works of print makers to represent the period of 1981-2001in the exhibition titled "A Century on Paper: Prints By Art Students League Artists 1901-2001" which was held at the UBS Paine Webber Art Gallery.
Her works have been introduced in many publications including:
The Best of Pastels(96)/Rockport Publishers, Inc.; Floral Inspiration(97)/Rockport
Publishers, Inc.; Art Monthly-Gekkan Bijyutsu(6/98)/Jitsugyono Nippon-sha;
Window of Art-Bijyutsuno Mado(5/00)/Seikatsuno Tomo-sha; Pastel Artist
International(9-10/02)/Artist International
and others.
She has been a member of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club(1978), Allied Artists of America(1979), and a fellow of RSA(1990).