The Crumbling World
“My work takes on the ephemerality of news and information and how the emotions we bring to each tragedy in the news cycle are swept away by the wave of information that floods the media, says artist Jave Yoshimoto. “I address this social amnesia through my art with the work acting as a social memory for tragic events so quickly forgotten in our information age.”
Jave Yoshimoto is an artist and educator of multi-cultural background. He was born in Japan to Chinese parents and immigrated to California at a young age. Yoshimoto has since traveled and lived in various states, which influenced his artistic practice. He believes in creating art works that are socially conscious and true to his authentic self.
As an artist, he has been an artist-in-residence in numerous sites, most recently at Teton Artlab in Jackson, Wyoming. Yoshimoto has been featured in multiple publications such as Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, Prairie Schooner, New American Paintings, Newer York Press among others. He received a letter of recognition from the United Nations, and exhibited across twenty states. Yoshimoto has also shown in solo exhibitions in New York City; Alva, OK; Seattle, WA; Portland, OR; Lincoln, NE; and Chicago, IL.
Most recently, Yoshimoto was selected to receive a Joan Mitchell Foundation's Painter's and Sculptor's grant to travel and research the earthquake damaged area in Nepal to interview humanitarian aid workers and the Greek Island of Lesbos to interview Syrian refugees about their journey. For more info on Jave: http://www.javeyoshimoto.com/
Living Arts of Tulsa, Inc. presents Jave Yoshimoto’s The Crumbling World,Feb 6-25. There will be an opening reception, Feb 6, 6-9 p.m., at Living ArtSpace, 307 East MB Brady St., in Tulsa. Admission is free and open to the public.
This event brought to you in part by: The George Kaiser Family Foundation and Arts Alliance Tulsa.
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