Kumi Yamashita
The Amazing Work of a Japanese Artist
Kumi Yamashita is in a category I am not sure how to categorize: it is creating realistic pictures using unusual materials and methods. From coffee, to pancake syrup to nails a number of artists are creating super realistic work, often on a large scale. In many it depends highly on contrast and highlights. There should be a name for it, if there is not yet. In the portrait below Yamashita has used thread wrapped around nails to produce a mesmerizing piece of art. Constellation is the name Kumi assigns to this series of art.
"This body of work consists of three simple materials that when combined produce portraits: a wooden panel, a wooden panel painted a solid white, thousands o small galvanized nails, and a single, unbroken, common sewing thread." Yamashita
Yamashita also creates what she calls shadow art.
"I sculpt using light and shadow. I construct single or multiple objects and place them in relation to a single light source. The complete artwork is therefore comprised of both the material (the solid objects) and the immaterial (the light or shadow)."
The Amazing Work of a Japanese Artist
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| Sewing Thread wrapped around nails form this portrait |
Kumi Yamashita is in a category I am not sure how to categorize: it is creating realistic pictures using unusual materials and methods. From coffee, to pancake syrup to nails a number of artists are creating super realistic work, often on a large scale. In many it depends highly on contrast and highlights. There should be a name for it, if there is not yet. In the portrait below Yamashita has used thread wrapped around nails to produce a mesmerizing piece of art. Constellation is the name Kumi assigns to this series of art.
"This body of work consists of three simple materials that when combined produce portraits: a wooden panel, a wooden panel painted a solid white, thousands o small galvanized nails, and a single, unbroken, common sewing thread." Yamashita
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| Kumi Yamishita From google image only for the purpose of education |
LIGHT & SHADOW
Yamashita
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| Shadow Art by Kumi Yamashita Artist lives in NYC |
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