Amy Tanaka Art + Design

Amy Tanaka is an artist, muralist, surface pattern designer, and sign artist for Trader Joe’s. She has worked professionally as an artist since 2009. Amy has created large and small scale murals and hand painted signs for businesses, community spaces, and residential homes. Her creativity also crosses over into the digital realm of surface pattern design to design patterns for fabric and wallpaper, logos, and marketing materials, etc. Her other ambitions include curating events, and offering painted backdrops and signage for Long Beach festivals, nonprofit events, weddings, and art walks. Amy’s art gravitates towards her values like community, food access and health, and environmental awareness. Her personal work is usually a nod to realism, surrealism, or abstract ideas.

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Amy Tanaka
(562) 303-2714
amytanakaart@gmail.com

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Artist Work

Ancestral Markings Mural by Artists Amy Tanaka & Jamuna Priti (2024)
Approximately 22ft x 73 ft wall mural at A&F Market Santa Fe & Willow Long Beach, CA. The mural was designed to reflect Southeast Asian fruits and vegetables that A&F Market offers to the community, and the Filipino culture which the market also serves by displaying traditional Filipino tattoo patterns and markings, as well as the flower and foliage. The mural was a collaboration between artists Amy Tanaka and Jamuna Priti.

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Ancestral Markings 2024

Approx. 22ft x 73 ft wall mural A&F Market Santa Fe & Willow Long Beach, CA The mural was designed to reflect a couple of ideas: Southeast Asian fruits and vegetables that A&F Market offers to the community, and the Filipino culture which the market also serves by displaying traditional Filipino tattoo patterns and markings, as well as the flower and foliage.

Color Dip Poolside (2023)
Artist Amy Tanaka created a colorful geometric mural wrapping around a pool at a private residence. Within the mural are the years of the family's life milestones painted in a subtle abstract way for an "egg hunt" fun feel. This video showcases the process of play, to vision, to execution of the collaborative idea for the mural. April 2023 Follow @amytanaka_art for more of Amy Tanaka's art and projects. Visit www.amytanaka.com for inquiries and portfolio.

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Artist Amy Tanaka, Color Dip Mural Poolside

Artist Amy Tanaka created a colorful geometric mural wrapping around a pool at a private residence. Within the mural are the years of the family's life milestones painted in a subtle abstract way for an "egg hunt" fun feel. This video showcases the process of play, to vision, to execution of the collaborative idea for the mural.

Wildflower Bouquet Mural (2024)
Artist Amy Tanaka paints the contour lines of various wildflowers grown and sold at Farm Lot 59, a local farm in the heart of Long Beach. The mural can be seen when arriving at the Farm Lot 59 Farmstand on California Ave. between Willow and Spring St. Follow @amytanaka_art for more of Amy's projects or visit www.amytanaka.com for inquiries and her portfolio work.

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Artist Amy Tanaka paints the contour lines of various wildflowers grown and sold at Farm Lot 59, a local farm in the heart of Long Beach. The mural can be seen when arriving at the Farm Lot 59 Farmstand on California Ave. between Willow and Spring St.