Ai Yamaguchi - Artists - Online Gallery of Japanese Contemporary Art Azito

	Ai Yamaguchi Ai Yamaguchi is an artist who utilises a unique combination of delicately drawn lines and celluloid picture-like expression to vividly portray the lives of young female prostitutes. Her works conjure up a sense of curiosity and amazement within the viewer, due to the depiction of young girls from multiple angles and in a wide variety of poses. As a result, they powerfully embody the sexuality typical of the Edo period, combined with a peculiar brand of eroticism unique to the artist's hand. Yamaguchi's style has also been said to combine “flatness,” regarded as a particularly characteristic feature of traditional Japanese art, with trends in Japanese subculture. This means that the patterns found in Yamaguchi's paintings are often directly influenced by anime and manga, which imbues her works with a strong sense of the contemporary. Despite having grown up in a generation obsessed with the manga subculture, which shows in her works, it might be more accurate to note that Yamaguchi's works are also infused with a rare sensitivity to works from the Edo art period. In an effort to show how she blends the two worlds, Yamaguchi also freely makes use of kana and kanji words that personally capture her thoughts and ideas well, ancient Japanese vocabulary or self-coined words in titling her works, making them seem more abstract and impressionistic. It is through these techniques that Yamaguchi conveys a strong sense of self-expression, by depicting these young girls in her works and using them as a filter through which she can achieve a strange equilibrium with the world. Apart from that, the viewer will once again become aware of the fact that this artwork, substantiated by a high degree of perfection, carries a strong intensity that only she can achieve. Official Artist Website http://www.ninyu.com/

Ai Yamaguchi: Ai Yamaguchi is an artist who utilises a unique combination of delicately drawn lines and celluloid picture-like expression to vividly portray the lives of young female prostitutes. Her works conjure up a sense of curiosity and amazement within the viewer, due to the depiction of young girls from multiple angles and in a wide variety of poses. As a result, they powerfully embody the sexuality typical of the Edo period, combined with a peculiar brand of eroticism unique to the artist's hand. Yamaguchi's style has also been said to combine “flatness,” regarded as a particularly characteristic feature of traditional Japanese art, with trends in Japanese subculture. This means that the patterns found in Yamaguchi's paintings are often directly influenced by anime and manga, which imbues her works with a strong sense of the contemporary. Despite having grown up in a generation obsessed with the manga subculture, which shows in her works, it might be more accurate to note that Yamaguchi's works are also infused with a rare sensitivity to works from the Edo art period. In an effort to show how she blends the two worlds, Yamaguchi also freely makes use of kana and kanji words that personally capture her thoughts and ideas well, ancient Japanese vocabulary or self-coined words in titling her works, making them seem more abstract and impressionistic. It is through these techniques that Yamaguchi conveys a strong sense of self-expression, by depicting these young girls in her works and using them as a filter through which she can achieve a strange equilibrium with the world. Apart from that, the viewer will once again become aware of the fact that this artwork, substantiated by a high degree of perfection, carries a strong intensity that only she can achieve.

Official Artist Website
http://www.ninyu.com/

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Works


kenuru
by Ai Yamaguchi
$1,850
print woodcut


hanasu koto wa kono yama hodo
by Ai Yamaguchi
$1,600
print silkscreen


tokuru kami no himagoto ni
by Ai Yamaguchi
$1,250
etching print

Exhibition

Solo Exhibition

2010	"Kiyu", Mizuma art gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008	"hana wa no ni aruyouni," Robert & Tilton, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
2007	"Yama haruru", Mizuma art gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2006	"E no e : Pictures of Pictures" GR2, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
2004	"Oyasumi", Shaheen Modern & Contemporary Art, Cleveland, U.S.A. "Haru no yukue", Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan "Hana mite kurasu haru", NADiff, Tokyo, Japan
2003	"Sukutoko" Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, U.S.A. "Hanabukuro" Viewing Room yoyogi/garage, Tokyo, Japan
2002	"Kinuginu" Gallery Eve, Tokyo, Japan "Ai Yamaguchi" Giant Robot Store, Los Angeles, U.S.A. "Ai Yamaguchi" Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2001	"Ominaeshi" NADiff bis, Miyagi, Japan "Shoumonraifuku" SHIBUYA SEIBU ART GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2000	"Haru ni shirarenu hana" NADiff, Tokyo, Japan "Mokomoko no tsuki" NADiff, Tokyo, Japan "Kamuro" Salon Sui, Ishikawa, Japan

: Exhibition view of "Kiyu" at Mizuma art gallery, 2010
: artwork "kenuru" showed in exhibitoin "Kiyu" at Mizuma art gallery, 2010

Group Exhibition

2009	"November Steps -Susan Phillipsz & Gallery Artists", Mizuma art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008	"Off the Rails", Mizuma and One Gallery, Beijing, China
2006	"DO NOT STACK" Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, U.S.A. "2006 Group show" Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan "Fiction@Love" Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, China (traveled to Singapore Art Museum, Singapore)
2005	"take art collection 2005", Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan "Untitled" Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, U.S.A. "A -lunch" AXIS Gallery ANNEX, Tokyo, Japan
2004	"EYE OF THE NEEDLE" Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, U.S.A. "Fiction. Love-Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art" Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan "OFFICINA ASIA" Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
2003	"Still Waters" Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
2002	"Kageki Metonymics" Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

: installation view of "hana wa no ni aruyouni" at Robert & Tilton gallery
: installation view of "hana wa no ni aruyouni" at Robert & Tilton gallery

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