Marta Editions releases 6–12 prints per year in limited, numbered editions.
Cup, Vase, Bowl
Tokyo-based illustrator Rie Koizumi offers us an intimate domestic scene in Corner Number 2. A five-color screenprint, the work conveys the delicate lines of the artist’s colored pencils through careful isolation and then overlap of the tones used to compose the still life: An array of vessels—cup, vase, bowl—gathered in a spare corner of the universe, unpopulated except for the hand that is perhaps just ‘off-screen,’ waiting to extend into frame and rearrange the objects as desired. These quotidian scenes, often rendered on warm yellow paper and devoid of human figures, are a throughline in Koizumi’s work, which frequently proposes evidently inhabited spaces for the viewer to imagine the lives and actions of those to whom a room, and its contents, belong.
Numbered edition of 150 + 10 AP
Corner Number 1
Corner Number 4
Corner Number 3
Corner Number 5
“Corner Number 2 is part of a series themed around various corners in everyday life. It was inspired by the way my favorite small vases gather in a certain corner of a room.” — RK
The artist working on a drawing in her Tokyo studio. Portrait by Chihiro Tanaka.
The artist’s studio in Tokyo, Japan. Photo by Chihiro Tanaka.
Corner studies amidst pencil sketches.
Still life objects.
Color studies for various compositions. Photot by Chihiro Tanaka.
Corner Number 2 is a five-color screenprint that utilizes the application of Blue (2195 U), Red (2028 U), Green (3415 U), Black, and White inks as simulations of the artist’s use of colored pencil in her original composition. In order to replicate Rie’s illustrative process—in which a dark pencil is used to provide outline and schematic of the objects and architecture of the still life—the print’s Black ink was applied first.
Layer two, Blue (2195 U), on press.
Application of layer two, Blue (2195 U).
Layer three, Red (2028 U), on press.
Application of layer three, Red (2028 U).
Rie Koizumi’s Corner Number 2 on press.
About the Artist
Rie Koizumi (b. 1989) lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. A graduate of Tokyo Polytechnic University and MJ Illustrations School, her work has been published in OZ, A Friend of Mother’s, and Tempura. Her work has been exhibited with Clouds Gallery (Tokyo), L’illustre Galerie Le Monde (Tokyo), 30 Menu (Hong Kong), and online with &Premium. Past commissioners include Mt. Ranier, Nunocoto Fabric, and the sheet music publisher Ongaku No Tomo Sha. Her work has been profiled by Room Style Illustration (Japan), It’s Nice That (UK), Dotplace Gallery (JP), and Support Magazine (FR). She is the recipient of two awards from the Tokyo Illustrators Society.
Rie Koizumi. Portrait by Kanako Yoshida.
Rie at work in her Tokyo studio. Photo by Chihiro Tanaka.
Rie Koizumi Corner Number 2, 2025 Five-Color Screenprint 16.1 H × 23.2 W in. (41.0 H × 59.0 W cm) Edition of 150 + 10 AP Printing: Serigraphy Printer: Lézard Graphique; Brumath, FR Paper: Procop Color 1802, Gobi, 270gsm
Original Medium: Drawing Original Size: 205 H × 294 W mm
PMS 2195 U PMS 2028 U PMS 3415 U PMS Neutral Black U PMS Bright White U