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Greenwich, CT | Artist & Curator-Led Tour: ‘The Elusive Art of Kumi Yamashita’
October 25 | 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Join ArtTable at the Greenwich Library’s Flinn Gallery for a tour of The Elusive Art of Kumi Yamashita co-led by the artist and Leslee Asch, exhibition curator, Flinn Gallery chair, and member of ArtTable.
About the exhibition: Kumi Yamashita transforms simple materials into astonishing works of art. Discussing her shadow art and the elusive nature of light, she explains, “I sculpt using both light and shadow. I construct single or multiple objects and place them in relation to a single light source. The complete artwork is therefore comprised of both the material (the solid objects) and the immaterial (the light or shadow).” In addition to Yamashita’s Light & Shadow series, the exhibition features provocative portraits crafted by meticulously winding a single, unbroken sewing thread around thousands of small galvanized nails. Yamashita’s body of work showcases an astounding range of materials and techniques.
Learn more about her practice in this interview with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.
About the Artist
Kumi Yamashita was born in Takasaki, Japan. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from the Glasgow School of Art and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. Her solo exhibitions have been held at prestigious venues such as the Seattle Art Museum, Boise Art Museum, Roswell Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Taipei’s Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay in Singapore, Art Front Gallery in Tokyo, and Kent Gallery in New York City.
Yamashita has also participated in group exhibitions at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs at the Louvre, the CODA Museum in the Netherlands, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Honolulu Museum of Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Liverpool Biennial, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Scottish Parliament, Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları in Istanbul, and the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial in Japan. She continues to exhibit her work internationally.
Her art is featured in both private and public collections, including the Microsoft Art Collection, New Mexico History Museum, American Express, Birmingham Museum of Art, Thoma Art Foundation, Le Meridien Shenyang, Otsuma University, Seattle City Light, Tokyo’s Akiru Medical Center, Osaka’s Namba Parks Tower, Stellar Place at Sapporo JR Tower, Boise Art Museum, and Hamada Children’s Art Museum.
Yamashita has received several awards and grants, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Artist Trust GAP, and China’s Crystal Kirin Award. She has participated in residencies at RAIR (Roswell Artist-in-Residence), the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and the Millay Colony. She currently lives and works in Woodstock, New York.
This Artist Talk is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Special thanks to Courtney Maier Burbela for organizing this program.
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