Yukiko Tsushima Solo Exhibition
“Flowers and Women”

For her first gallery exhibition in the United States, Yukiko Tsushima presents a series of works titled “Flowers and Women”.

Yukiko’s women have distinctive eyes −bathed in tears, these eyes seem to be gazing at a world far away. What is behind these enigmatic tears? As women, we cannot free ourselves from delicate feelings and emotional attachments; as women, we are sensitive and get hurt; and we need tears as a catharsis to transcend our pain, the artist says.

Yukiko’s works are also filled with flowers and insects. As a little girl, Yukiko was fascinated by them. She developed a habit of observing insects and flowers, and they helped her expand her world. Every creature in the realm of nature attracted her with its unique form. As she grew up, her interest in touching flowers and insects, and her interest in talking about them, developed into an interest in drawing them.

Raised in a strict family, with both parents being math teachers, Yukiko developed an inner world of her imagination, and found herself drawn to psychic readings and supernaturalism. Struggling with human relations in the outer world, she started to draw women. In some cases, the women were reflections of her inner self, and drawing them was the act of healing herself.

After deciding on a theme, she typically starts her work by drawing a few sketches of flowers and insects. On layers and layers of elaborately painted background, she draws detailed images with pencils. Through this amazingly painstaking process, the artist comes face to face with the women she draws, and each work comes to manifest her individuality.

The exhibition will feature the five large pieces she completed this year: “Cluster Amaryllis and Woman”, “Blue poppies and Woman”, “Cherry blossoms and Woman”, “Tulips and Woman” and “Flowering brackens and Woman”. The delicate beauty of Yukiko’s works will be the perfect prelude to the approaching flower season in the City.

NY Coo Gallery
Translation : Yoko Sugano

Background:
2001 Graduated from Kochi University with a major in Arts and Crafts with a concentration on oil painting
2003 Graduated from Okayama Prefecture College with a master’s degree in Visual
Arts, Assistant to Professor Ichiro Matsuura in Stained Glass Arts
2005-Present
Instructor at Okayama Business College and at Beauty Mode

Exhibitions:
2008 Solo exhibition at Gallery Famous, Tokyo (10th anniversary program)
2006 Solo exhibition at Gallery ACT BOX, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
2007 Exhibition at Kurashiki Municipal Museum, Okayama (10th anniversary Individualists Exhibition)
Other experiences include solo exhibitions in Okayama, Kochi, Tokyo, Osaka and Hamamatsu.

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The opening reception for Yukiko Tsushima Solo Exhibition "Flowers and Women" was held on the evening of Friday, April 4th.
The delicate beauty of Yukiko’s works makes the perfect prelude to the approaching flower season
Please visit our gallery and experience it yourself. The exhibition runs through April 19th (Sat).

The artist / top center
The scene from the opening reception / bottom left right

NY Coo Gallery