Billboard Insider talked with Erisa Higaki about a mural installation in Brooklyn, New York.

Erisa what’s your background?

I am a graphic installation artist from Japan currently living in New York City.   I help turn original art into murals. I have been doing installations mostly for museums and galleries.

Tell us about the project. 

I turned a painting by my friend Takuma Watanabe into  a huge mural. I believe our recent work added colors and joy to a beautiful neighborhood.  Takuma’s friend owns the restaurant called COTRA which opened last summer. He wanted to make a big sign outside of the restaurant building wall. He asked Takuma to collaborate with his artwork, then he asked me to install it. It’s at 451 Carroll Street in Brooklyn.

What was the install like?

The original artwork size is about 12” x 16”.  We asked a printing company to make it to 20’ x 30’ and divided into it 9 sheets.  We used RoughMark that sticks on brick wall well with using a heat gun.  Since the top part of building is getting narrower and narrower, I started to install from the wide side. From the next sheet, connected the image, and trimmed the top part.  We spent 3 days on the install.

Takuma Watanabe

Takuma Watanabe is an abstract painter.  Born in Princeton, New Jersey, and raised in Japan, Watanabe graduated Vantan Design Institute in 2005 majoring in Fashion Styling. Through his work in the fashion industry, Watanabe quickly became a sought-after stylist before returning to the US in 2016. During this time, he became a self-trained photographer, applying his artistic eye to to styling, directing, and photographing within the New York fashion scene. After assisting renowned contemporary artist, Yasuo Nomura, Watanabe pursued his fine art ambitions as a means to explore the intersection between science, spirituality, and fine art.

Erisa Higaki

Erisa Higaki is a graphic installation artist currently based in NYC. With more than seven years of experience in graphics installation arts, she practices a variety of graphics arts including wall graphics/arts, window graphics, signage/display graphics and product markings and branding. Museums, galleries, and retail establishments are some of her primary clients where she collaborates with an array of team members, including exhibition designers, architects, engineers, and so on. She takes a great pride in supporting every step of visual realization, and brings artists’ and designers’ visions to life. She strongly believes each projects has a power of telling stories that weaves perception, narrative, and the meaning of the site with graphics-enhanced materiality.

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