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 50cm
Oil on canvas
The child looks to have become one of the toys or illustrations she might regularly encounter. The loud colours, bold outlines and plump shapes seem less appealing outside of their childlike context though, and her expression transformed by Nasu's smudged aesthetic and circular scrapings seem more mysterious, drifting between doe-eyed and hollow.
£1,250
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