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February - March 2005 Los
Lunas – Eizo Nishiura, Steppin’ Out’s featured cover artist, is “just
now turning 70” and enjying his new life along El Rio Grande. Eizo
retired as professor of mathematics at Queensborough Community College
and his wife Ruth retired from nursing at Queens Hospital Center,
two years ago; the couple moved here “after finding we loved it
in New Mexico during sort visits over the course of several years”. But his love of the arts has been strong since he was a child. “Most of my previous work has been in oils,” says Eizo, “but at present I am trying to master the medium of watercolor.” He already has received acclaim for his work. The watercolor on our cover, titled simply Full Moon over Manzanos, won the People’s Choice Award and First Place Watercolors in the 2004 Belen Art League Fall Show, held each year at the Belen Historic Harvey Hosue. He is a member of The Belen Art League and Tomé Gallery and exhibits at both galleries. Born in 1935 in San Francisco,
Eizo says he has always been interested in art and “started to
seriously pursue my interest when I was in high school. My Father who
had formal training in art at CSFA but unfortunately had to practice
art as an amateur all his life, encouraged me by giving me lessons,
taking me to sketch outdoors, to learn potting at a ceramic studio and
taking me to museums. While his father taught him most of “what I know about painting,” he discouraged Eliza from pursuing a career in art. “Nonetheless,” Eizo writes, ‘ when I graduated from high school, I enrolled at San Jose State College as an art major.” He soon changed his major to mathematics (“my other love”), graduated with a BA in mathematics and continued in graduate school at University of Illinois to pursue a PhD |
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Eizo says, “I had continued painting and still felt the need to
pursue it seriously, so I quit graduate school and moved to Chicago,”
got a job and studied at the Chicago Art Institute. He subsequently
went to Europe (Scheveningen, Netherlands to teach) and eventually
settled in Paris “where I continued to paint until my money ran out and
I returned to the States.” He taught in the Mathematics Department of Wayne State university, Detroit, continued painting and attending classes at the Detroit School of Arts and Crafts and finished his PhD in mathematics there. He subsequently taught at Queensborough Community College until his retirement. He has exhibited at the Red Door Gallery, the Detroit Artists’ Workshop, the Group 4 Gallery, all I nDetroit; and at the Wueensborough Community Collee Gallery with a show of his work titled Symmetry in Art and Nature. His recent paintings are at Belen Art League Gallery, 509 Becker Ave., Belen, 861-0217 and Tome Gallery, 2930 Hwy. 47, 565-0556. |
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