The Color Field
2019
After spending the past nine years on advocacy projects surrounding Executive Order 9066 and the WildLIFE Project, Maruyama felt it was time to focus on work that was less emotionally demanding.
She was invited to participate in an exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus. The invitation posed an unexpected challenge, as the show was centered on furniture design—and Maruyama had never been particularly drawn to the cold, sterile aesthetics of traditional Bauhaus furniture. Instead, she found inspiration in the work of Anni Albers, whose weaving and masterful use of color offered a more tactile and expressive approach to Bauhaus ideals.
Maruyama incorporated the techniques used to create tambours, or roll-top doors, as a means of constructing what she describes as “wooden weavings.”
