Misaki Kawai is a Japanese artist living in New York City. Her work is done in a naive style. Perhaps she has a relationship with an artist like Yoshitomo Nara, but her work looks closer to me in many ways to Donald Baechler. I have seen her work with Donald's at Cheim and Read.
Misaki has traveled extensively and her work is influenced by her travels. Her work is fun, symbolic and playful. It reminds you to be a kid again. Art is not necessarily so serious an endeavor, we make things because crafting ideas is like child's play; innocent, yet rich with imagination.
I particularly like this piece which is more abstract, looks like a star cross or something else.
She has a show coming up at The Hole, Kathy Grayson's gallery this month.
