Kaori Maeyama is an urban landscape painter born and raised in Fukuoka, Japan. Her paintings explore obscured vision, allure of the ordinary, and sense of movement in static images. Focusing on decay and isolation of the mundane as the primary subject matter, she uses a tonal palette and visual noise to amplify mood and atmosphere. A New Orleans resident since 1994, she worked as a focus puller and a digital audio editor before shifting her focus to analog image making. Her recent work has been shown at Staple Goods, LeMieux Galleries, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and reviewed on Gambit Weekly, Louisiana Life Magazine, and Pelican Bomb. She holds a BA in filmmaking from the University of New Orleans and an MFA in painting from Tulane University where she learned to paint without paintbrushes.