- Yuko Sakurai
Yuko Sakurai (born 1970 in
Tokyo ) is a Japanese artist.Yuko Sakurai is the daughter of the sculptor Toshio Sakurai. After training as a French pastry-cook, Sakurai decided to become an artist in 1998. Her work can be characterized as
minimalistic , focusing mainly oncolor andtexture . The careful workmanship and the awareness of material, that Sakurai acquired from her work as a pastry-cook, is visible in her work paintings.Sakurai started her career as an assistant to
Rene Rietmeyer , occasionally also to Tomoji Ogawa and Takashi Suzuki during their exhibition projects inGermany in 2000.From 2001 onwards she developed her own artistic approach. After close examination of
Robert Ryman s white paintings and impressed by the work of land artist Hamish Fulton, she began making series of relief-like structures, often in multi-parts. Herpainting s are expressions of her emotions caused by experience or remembrance oflandscape s.Sakurai is involved in the international art project
Personal Structures .Since 1999, she has been living alternately in the
Netherlands and inMiami Beach in the USA.External links
* [http://www.yukosakurai.com official website]
* [http://www.personalstructures.org PersonalStructures.org]
* [http://www.globalartaffairs.org GlobalArtAffairs.org]
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