Wendy Maruyama

Wendy Maruyama
Born1952 (age 71–72)
La Junta, Colorado, U.S.
Education
Occupation(s)Visual artist, furniture designer, educator
Websitewendymaruyama.com

Wendy Maruyama (born 1952) is an American visual artist, furniture maker, and educator from California. She was born in La Junta, Colorado.[1]

Maruyama was influential in the early period of post-modern artistic furniture. She challenges the masculine environments within the field of woodworking.[2] Her work uses humor, social commentary, sculptural forms, and color to challenge the accepted notions of furniture. Conceptually her work deals with social practices such as her Japanese-American heritage, feminism, and wildlife endangerment in Africa.[3] Maruyama served as the head of the Furniture Design department at San Diego State University for 25 years.[3]

  1. ^ "Oral history interview with Wendy Maruyama, 2010 March 5-6". Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
  2. ^ "» Wendy Maruyama". www.craftinamerica.org. Retrieved March 30, 2023.
  3. ^ a b Cooke, Jr., Edward S.; Ward, Gerald W. R. & L'Ecuyer, Kelly H. (2003). The Maker's Hand: American Studio Furniture, 1940-1990. Boston, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. pp. 130. ISBN 0878466630.