Yasuyo Maruyama ｜ FORM May 21 (Sat) - June 18 (Sat), 2016 GALLERY MoMo Projects
1985 Born in Kanagawa
GALLERY MoMo Projects is pleased to represent a solo exhibition of Yasuyo Maruyama titled
2009 B.A., Painting, Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Design and Fine Arts, Tokyo Zokei University
"FORM". Capturing signs and actions that people show instantaneously, Maruyama has described the
2011 M.F.A., Painting, Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Design and Fine Arts, Tokyo Zokei University
faces around her with the deformations. The flat surfaces with smooth brush strokes and simple lines in the portraits succeed in showing the character and the deep expression the subjects have. Through
[Solo exhibition]
the residency at Texas under the strong sunlight for a year, she tends to capture the models in the
2014 JIRO MIURA GALLERY, Tokyo
shapes and the colors because her view to subjects changed. Maruyama successes in describing the
2012 GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo
characters abstractly and attempts to develop the source of the beauty the models have.
2010 Gallery Sakamaki, Tokyo
2009 GALLERY MoMo Roppongi, Tokyo
Yasuyo Maruyama was born in 1985, in Kanagawa and received her MA from Tokyo Zokei University in 2011. She has had exhibitions in Tokyo, Los Angeles and Texas and awarded at Shell Art Award 2011
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and Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award 2013.
2013 "FACE 2013 Frontier Artists Contest Exhibition" Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo
"INTRO - Young Artist Exhibition Selected by Fuyuhiko Yamamoto, Art Collector -"
The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Tokyo
2012 "rgb+ 2012 exhibition vol.4" Zokei Gallery, Tokyo "Contemporary representational painting -Each of Reality- Hankyu Umeda Gallery, Osaka 2011 "Turnig Point" GALLERY MoMo Roppongi, Tokyo
Artist Comment My work is inspired by my everyday interactions with people. Friends act as models for my paintings. I explore memories of a conversation with each individual model through my artworks. The paintings
"Art On the Pearl" Initiate pearl, Tokyo
are a reflection of my own problems and ideas, which are then combined with the model’s personality.
"Charity Auction to Benefit the Reconstrusction after the Great East Japan Earthquake :
This hybrid character represents an individual who does not exist in real life. I attempt to represent the
Art of Our Time" Tokyo Art Club, Tokyo
ethereal person who is neither you nor I.
"Young Japanese Artists 2011 Exhibition" 2/20 Gallery, New York "Shell Art Award 2011" Daikanyama Hill Side Forum, Tokyo
By employing deformation, I emphasize the eyes, the skin, the outlines, and coherence of the model’s
"rgb+ 2011 exhibition vol.3" Zokei Gallery, Tokyo
face. Like changing the story with the receivers’ interpretation when it was passed on by word of
2010 "International Art Triennale 2011" Osaka University of Arts Art Information Center, Osaka "Prize of Kawaii 2011" SEIBU Shibuya, Tokyo
mouth, the faces in my works changed with my interpretation to the models. Even though my works can be categorized as representational art, I do not depict the original models exactly.
2009 "Summer Group Show Hop Step Jump" GALLERY MoMo Roppongi, Tokyo "Creative Spiral" Yokoyama memory Manzù Museum attached to Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo
Recently, I get my interests in the eyes. Our eyes can tell a great deal of things about ourselves. They
"AMUSING" Gallery Sakamaki, Tokyo
can show our feelings of anger, tenderness, love, and so on. They are nothing short of eloquent. They
"Xmas Art Festival-A Present form Ginza" Gallery Sakamaki, Tokyo "Via art 2009" Shinwa Art Museum, Tokyo 2008 "POSITIVE'S" In Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo "FRIDAY THE 13'S Kondou seminar Exhibition" Zokei Gallery, Tokyo 2007 "GIRL 2" Gallery Yamate, Tokyo "Paintings Great Exhibition" In Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo 2006 "GIRL" Gallery kirari, Tokyo [Awards] 2013 Selected for Sompo Japan Art Prize 2011 ZOKEI Prize at "ZOKEI Show 2010" Tamayo Iemura Judges' Prize at "Shell Art Award 2011"
get more and more eloquent as they go through many life events. Our eyes are the most informative organs in our face, and are regarded as an important clue for judging one’s feelings or character. I think each person’s face contains a great deal of information. The faces are the most interesting motif for me. Through painting the faces of people around me, I try to depict the common beauty that each person has in his or her face. Yasuyo Maruyama, 2016
Elizabeth 2016 Oil on canvas 61.0 x 61.0cm JPY 170,000-
Aaron
Sabrina
2016
2016
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
30.5 x 30.5cm
30.5 x 30.5cm
JPY 70,000-
JPY 70,000-
Makoto
Glory
2016
2016
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
30.5 x 30.5cm
30.5 x 30.5cm
JPY 70,000-
JPY 70,000-
Manaka
Andrea
2016
2016
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
30.5 x 30.5cm
30.5 x 30.5cm
JPY 70,000-
JPY 70,000-
Katie 2015 Oil on canvas 91.4 x 91.4cm JPY 300,000-
Claire
Glory
2015
2015
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
30.5 x 30.5cm
30.5 x 30.5cm
JPY 70,000-
JPY 70,000-
Mickey 2015 Oil on canvas 91.4 x 91.4cm JPY 300,000-
Alex
Sakiko
2015
2014
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
30.5 x 30.5cm
53.0 x 53.0cm
JPY 70,000-
JPY 150,000-
Kokari 2012 Oil on canvas 130.3 x 130.3cm JPY 500,000-
Miwa 2011 Oil on canvas 162.0 x 162.0cm JPY 720,000-
Misato 2011 Oil on canvas 130.3 x 130.3cm JPY 500,000-
Miyo 2011 Oil on canvas 162.0 x 162.0cm JPY 720,000-
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