Biography from AskART:
| Takako Yamaguchi was born in 1952, in Okayama, Japan. During the early 1970s, she attended International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan. She received a BA from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1975. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design, under a Presidential Fellowship, in 1975-1976, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1978.
Her painting style can be compared to the monumental seascapes of nineteenth century European romanticism. Yamaguchi's paintings are at least equally influenced by the fabric design of kimonos from her native Japan, where boldly abstract patterns and delicate representations of nature are playfully juxtaposed.
Takako Yamaguchi currently resides in Santa Monica, California
EXHIBITIONS:
1995: "Diversification of Passages," Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut Creek, CA
1994: "New Old Masters," Center for the Arts at the Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA; Catalog "NEO," Galeria OMR, Colonia Roma, Mexico D.F.;"The Asian Spirit in Contemporary California Art," Weingart Center for the Liberal Arts, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
1987: "Exceptional Excess, Transcending the Ordinary," Santa Monica Community College, Santa Monica, CA "Borrowed Embellishments," Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, The Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1986: "Gallery Gala in Celebration of the Opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Robert O. Anderson Building of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art," Los Angeles, CA;
1982: "Los Angeles Pattern Painters," ARCO Center for Visual Art, Los Angeles, CA; "Decorative Motifs and Pattern Painting," Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, CA
1981: "Between the Freeways: The Art of Downtown Los Angeles," Madison Art Center, Madison, WI (2 Year National Tour - ended at Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA, 1983)
1980: "Downtown L.A. in Santa Barbara," University of California, College of Creative Studies Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA; (organized by the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum); "Young Painters 1980," Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
1979: "California in Chicago," West Hubbard Gallery, Chicago, IL; "Cross-pollination," The Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA; Santa Barbara City College, College Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1978: Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, New York
1977: University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Katsuyuki, Okumura, "Tenshin Mushin; Artist Takako Yamaguchi," Nikkei Art, Sept. 1998, pp. 94-97 (photographs)
Nolan, Timothy, "Love's Labors Lost at SITE Gallery," Artweek, July 1996. p.26
Hawley-Ruppel, Wendy, "Remaking the Past in Our Own Image," Text for the catalog of the exhibition "New Old Masters," Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, April 1994, pp. 6, 17-19 (photograph)
Jimmerson, Tom, Untitled text for the brochure of the exhibition at the Morishita Museum, Okayama, Japan, May 1993, [trans. Yasushi Zenno (photographs)]
Naitom Yasuhiro, Sanyo-Shinbun, May 14, 1993
Angelica, Abelleyra, La Jornada, May 12, 1992
Jimmerson, Tom, Visions, Fall 1991 (photograph)Hammond, Pamela, Artnews, May 1991
Geer, Suvan, Los Angeles Times, March 1, 1991, Calendar Section, (photograph)
Speigel, Judith, "Shrines to the Beautiful Object," Artweek, September 24, 1988, p.5
Donohue, Marlena, Los Angeles Times, September 16, 1988, p.22
Schipper, Merle, "A Blending of Cultures," Artweek, March 23, 1985, p.1
The Security Pacific Collection, Selected Works, 1985, p.83
McCloud, Mac, "Fusing Cultural Attitudes," Artweek, September 24, 1983
Morch, Al, S.F. Examiner, Dec. 27, 1982 (photograph)Albright, Tom, "Ersatz Patterns," San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 22, 1981 (photograph)
Stofflet, Mary, Nob Hill Gazette "Color and Architectural References," Feb. 1981
Curtis, Cathy, "Cross-cultural Exlecticism," ArtWeek, Jan. 31, 1981 (photograph)
Blau, Douglas, Flash Art, summer, 1980 p.24
Hayden, Darrell, "Los Angeles Relocates," ArtWeek, May 24, 1980 (photograph)
Menzies, Neal, "Focused on Pattern," ArtWeek, March 26, 1983
King, Pamela, "Minority Cross Pollination," Los Angeles Herald Examiner, July 22, 1979, pp. E3-E4
(Biography courtesy of Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California)
Source: AV Fine Arts |
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