Keven Furiya

Keven Furiya

paintings, drawings, watercolors

Portfolio

Urban Textures 2025

“Urban Textures” is Keven Furiya’s on-going project consisting of drawings, watercolors and oil paintings of the Japantown neighborhood and Seattle documenting its colors, textures and energy. Inspired by early 20th-century Japanese immigrant artists Kamekichi Tokita, and Kenjiro Nomura, the exhibition reflects the Furiya's perspective as a nisei (American-born Japanese) and longtime resident of Pioneer Square/Japantown and is in reverence to the contribution made to the art community by the early Japanese immigrants who settled in the Seattle area in the early 1900’s.

Urban Textures 2025

“Urban Textures” is Keven Furiya’s on-going project consisting of drawings, watercolors and oil paintings of the Japantown neighborhood and Seattle documenting its colors, textures and energy. Inspired by early 20th-century Japanese immigrant artists Kamekichi Tokita, and Kenjiro Nomura, the exhibition reflects the Furiya's perspective as a nisei (American-born Japanese) and longtime resident of Pioneer Square/Japantown and is in reverence to the contribution made to the art community by the early Japanese immigrants who settled in the Seattle area in the early 1900’s.

2022 Show

Most recent works.
I am fascinated by the urban everyday, the beauty of spots and surfaces we often pass yet usually scorn. To me these lines and colors, mutations and contradictions, have an equilibrium all their own. Often, in their balance of poise and fatigue, I find an incarnation of our transience.
Although such ephemeral scenes surround us all, we are easily blinded to them by life's distractions. This project is a personal chronicle of their character. But it is also my attempt to show how, if we only pause to look, we discover time's fundamental dignity.

2022 Show

Most recent works.
I am fascinated by the urban everyday, the beauty of spots and surfaces we often pass yet usually scorn. To me these lines and colors, mutations and contradictions, have an equilibrium all their own. Often, in their balance of poise and fatigue, I find an incarnation of our transience.
Although such ephemeral scenes surround us all, we are easily blinded to them by life's distractions. This project is a personal chronicle of their character. But it is also my attempt to show how, if we only pause to look, we discover time's fundamental dignity.

Portraits

All portraits painted from life most of which were done alla prima (in one sitting).

Goth, oil on treated paper, 12 x 9 in.
Goth, oil on treated paper, 12 x 9 in.

Portraits

All portraits painted from life most of which were done alla prima (in one sitting).

Portrait Drawings

These were done from life and in one sitting between 20 minutes to 3 hours.

Ruby, pencil/paper, 9 x 12 inches.
Ruby, pencil/paper, 9 x 12 inches.

Portrait Drawings

These were done from life and in one sitting between 20 minutes to 3 hours.

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