Quick Hit: Yoskay Yamamoto.

[sechan19]

Toba 517.

Some of this stuff doesn't quite sit with me, but a number of Yamamoto's works are really quite strikingly beautiful. I'm always interested in work by Asian-American or Asian ex-pat artists that attempts to fuse western and their traditional culture. And Yamamoto's Koibito project presents a delightful play on words in beautiful 2 and 3-D proportions.

Official Site.
Recent interview at arrestedmotion.com.

Via.

Comments

[lordameth.livejournal.com]

I feel like I've seen this before, but I can't be sure... In any case, thanks for (re-)introducing this artist. I do love it when artists make use of traditional forms and imagery. And, with his figures appearing at Comicon, and selling both as "toys" and also at auction, he definitely seems to be bridging the gap between art and commercial design... which I think makes him just a little bit more interesting as an artist too.