| Dates: | born 1968
| | Biography: | 1968 Born Takasaki, Japan.
Lives and works in Glasgow
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1999 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
San Francisco, California
1998 Salt Lake City Art Center, Salt
Lake City, Utah
1998 Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
1997 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle,
Washington
Someone Else's Mess, King County Art
Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1995 Seafirst Bankcard Service,
Spokane, Washington
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
The Betty Bowen Award, 20th
Anniversary Exhibition, Seattle
Washington MFA, Newberry Gallery,
Glasgow MFA, Assembly Gallery,
Glasgow
1996 Theatre Off Jackson, Seattle,
Washington
Beyond the Rock Garden, Wing Luke
Asian Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
1995 Kunstkabinett, Center for
Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington
1994 BFA Exhibition, Behnke Gallery,
Cornish College of Contemporary Arts,
Seattle, Washington
| | | Source: | "Trace, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art", Festival catalogue | | | Date of source: | 1999 |
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| | Description: | Kumi Yamashita traces figures with the
most obscure materials. Her subjects
include shadows on the wall or dirty
prints from a pair of old boots.
Her graphic skills are amazingly well
honed and the delightful images she
produces are even more pleasing
because we doubt our eyes when we
see how they are produced. In one
installation lifelike forms of the human
body in motion are produced by the
most unlikely source. On the wall,
illuminated by a single strong lamp, we
can see an arrangement of ordinary
children's building blocks.
Some are shaped like block letters or
toy animals, but they are random forms
in different sizes and shapes. Yamashita
has arranged these so that each throws
a particular shadow which, when taken
with all the other precisely placed
objects, astonishingly adds up to the
illusion of reality. | | Description Source: | "Trace, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art", Festival catalogue | | Description Source Date: | 1999 | | Gender: | female | | Type: | person |
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