Born in Urayasu City, Chiba, Mika Azegami is a Japanese artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.  In her paintings, she manipulates calligraphy, text, language, silk-screen imagery, drawings, acrylic paint and found collage elements of mixed media on canvas into a Zen like infusion of private muses. 

Her painterly gestures are driven by daily experiences as she creates therapeutic psychological landscapes into experimental visual journals that are “connected somewhere else.”  Her strokes are first and foremost born out of the joy of play and grounded in inner dialogues, memory, stories, and her imaginative world, a kind of obsession to relive real or imagined moments through her art in a natural playful action.  Her work shows attributes of Abstract Expressionism and textural influences of classical Japanese painting.