Ayako Yoshida is an independent curator seeking to increase public awareness and access to Japanese and Japanese-American art. During her nine years at LACMA, she worked on “Made in California” and 10 exhibitions with the European Painting and Sculpture Department. At LACMA in 2008, she curated a permanent collection installation “Kanemitsu in California during the 1960s and 1970s.” She initiated “June Wayne’s Narrative Tapestries: Tidal Waves, DNA, and the Cosmos” at The Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. She co-curated "Takuma Kamine: Myo-o in the Shell Interpretations of Buddhist Sculpture" at The Japan Foundation Los Angeles in 2019. Yoshida continues to research and to actively seek opportunities to show 20th and 21st century Japanese and Japanese-American artists’ works, which have been influential in the history of modern and contemporary American art.
featured Japanese Nihonga painter
Yuko Murakoshi (b.1966, Japan)
Yuko Murakoshi
Autumn Colors, 1993
Washi paper, mineral color, collage
162 x 130.3 cm
Winner of the prestigious Yamatane Museum of Art Prize for Excellence 1993
Collection Yamatane Museum of Art, Tokyo
Camellia japonica, 2020
Mineral color on washi paper
27.3 x 24.2 cm unframed ( 10 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches unframed)
SOLD
Lotus Flower, 2020
Mineral color on washi paper
19 x 16 cm framed (7.5 x 6.3 inches framed)
$200 + $40 shipping
A Spider brings good luck, 2020
Mineral color on washi paper
22.7 x 15.8 cm unframed (9 x 6 1/4 inches unframed)
$1,700 + $40 shipping
Guardians by contemporary Japanese sculptor Takuma Kamine (b. 1978, Osaka, Japan)
Takuma Kamine
8 Guardians, the Vidya ver.2017 Acala naatha, 2017
Epoxy resin, resin casting, resin plaster, metal
13.7 x 7 x 7 inches
Another Guardian from the series 8 Guardians, the Vidya ver.2017 Trailokyavijaya is in LACMA collections.lacma.org/search/site/kamine
$750
5 Guardians, the Vidya Acala naatha, 2013-18
Epoxy resin, resin casting, mixed media
20 x 12 x 12 inches
$1,100
5 Guardians, the Vidya Yamantaka, 2013-18 (left)
5 Guardians, the Vidya Vajrayaksa, 2013-18
Epoxy resin, resin casting, resin plaster, metal
20 x 12 x 12 inches
$1,100 each
8 Guardians, Drawing No. 4 Yamantaka, 2017 (left)
Pen on graph paper framed in a panel
12 x 17 inches
$300
MYO-O Drawing No. 4 Yamantaka, 2017 (right)
Pen on graph paper framed in a panel
8 x 12 inches
$220