Seiko Tachibana, born in Japan, completed her Master of Art Education at Kobe University before receiving her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1995. Since then, she has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area. Seiko’s work was awarded the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award and been exhibited internationally in prestigious collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Legion of Honor, the Portland Art Museum, and the Museum Meermanno-Wetreenianum in The Hague.
Seiko is deeply intrigued by the concept of a universal truth, which she explores through shape, color, and spatial relationships in her art. Her works feature elements that function like organic building blocks: atoms form molecules, molecules form compounds, compounds form cells, and cells form organisms. The marks, lines, shapes, colors, and textures in her pieces create a network structure—a system of interconnected nodes that are energized by their interactions. Within these networks, she captures a subtle yet profound beauty through their interdependence and synergy.
In recent years, Seiko has become captivated by the recurring patterns and shapes in nature, whether on a microscopic or galactic scale. Many organic structures are formed by self-similar fractal patterns, where patterns evolve and recur at progressively larger or smaller scales. Once organized, a fractal pattern can be recreated at any scale in infinite progressive iterations. Her work reflects this exploration, particularly through representative fractal elements inspired by the self-similar patterns found in plant structures. This theme is especially evident in her piece Fractal.