Yuko Nasu
Since graduating from St Martin's MA, Yuko Nasu has exhibited at the London Arts Gallery in January 2009. and exhibits in November at I-MYU projects. She won a place in the Jerwood Contemporary Painters exhibition 2008 and has been on the cover of ArtWorld magazine. Her imagined portraits of unknown people are unique in both style and concept. Finding inspiration in the ubiquity of media portraiture, Nasu inverts this, depicting anonymous people so the subject's identity depends on the viewer. Deliberately obscuring faces in the fashion of distorting mirrors, the artists forces her audiences to question what makes someone worth looking at. Through this abstraction, Nasu is able to focus on criterea used to differentiate people, providing a provocative exploration of stereotypes and prejudice.
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Painting
40cm x 50.5cm
Oil on canvas
A forceful tirad of colours contrasts acid hair, with vibrant mouth and dark, cavernous eyes, creating a face whilst endowing each component with individuality. The subject is shown to be both a single entity and a collectionof parts whose import will be greater or lesser depnding on the associations the viewer brings to the image.
£1,250
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