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Yayoi Asoma
 
Painting

Interior
acrylic on canvas
48"x 216"

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Painting

View from the Backyard
acrylic on canvas
108"x 84"

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Painting

View from the Breitches
acrylic on canvas
96"x 144"

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Artist Statement

My recent paintings are built through a process of exploring the notions of recollection and collection. I am interested in how memory works as a constructive process that reproduces, filters, changes, and interprets the past.

My work speaks through the familiarity of the home, where spaces of our everyday, entwine perpetually with the memories and associations of our experiences. While a house is often referred to as a home, the concept of “home” is broader than a physical dwelling. Home is often a place of refuge and safety, where worldly cares fade. Home in terms of where one grew up. In effect, home is a type of time, rather than a place.

To spend time in front of these paintings is to see them change. Figures and objects will move in and out of the viewer’s attention, as each painting seems to present an analysis of the processes of seeing and remembering.

 

 

Artist Resume
Education:

2007
Rutgers University
Mason Gross School of the Arts, MFA candidate
New Brunswick, NJ

2003
Art Students League
Studied with John Hultburg
New York, NY

2002
Rhode Island School of Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Providence, RI

Fall 2000
School of Visual Arts
Mobility Program
New York, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2006
Yayoi Asoma, Drawings
Agora Gallery, Knoxville, TN

2004
Passages: New Works by Yayoi Asoma
OSLO, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2007
MFA Thesis Exhibition
Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ

2006
Artist As Teacher
The Studio, Armonk, NY

2006
Welcome Back Show
Mason Gross School of the Arts New Brunswick, NJ

2006
Fantasy, Magic and Dreams
The Center at High Falls
Rochester, NY

2005
First Year Exhibition
Mason Gross School of the Arts
New Brunswick, NJ

2004
Collision Machine
D&S Knitwear, Brooklyn, NY

2000-2006
NYSSSA Faculty Exhibition
Tower Arts Gallery, Brockport, NY

2002
Corum
Art Students League, New York, NY

2002
Mural Painting
Restaurant El Mar y Tierra
Oaxaca, Mexico

2002
Summer Exhibition
Peck Gallery, Providence, RI

2002
RISD Senior Painting Show
Woods-Gerry Gallery
Providence, RI

2002
Gallery Night
Max’s Upstairs, Providence, RI

2001
Painting Department Invitational
Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI

2001
Outside the Bubble
The Space, Providence, RI

 
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