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Sayumi YokouchiARTIST'S STATEMENTI find beauty in industrial materials, and posses a fascination for using them when making a piece of jewelry. Being born and raised in the big city of Tokyo Japan, and now living in New York City, I've come to see urban life as a kind of landscape resembling an enormous field of flowers where the natural and unnatural grow and live together. New buildings appear in the place of old ones and people continually come and go, much like new flowers coming into bloom season after season.New life becomes old quickly in the urban environment. Old to new, new to old -- echoed everywhere from computer systems, to houses, mone ìy, fashion trends and even personal relationships; all of which perpetuate the continuous and vast urban cycle. In this respect, I see my jewelry as an empty field, wherein I plant my own kind of flowers and create my own form of urban nature within the field. My flowers are blooming one by one, always metaphorically contrasting the synthetic (urban) and precious (country). My material choices are my responses to the world I inhabit, and ornamentation is a result of my purest desire. My approach to work is an endless experimentation with materials and process. I search for a boundary-free territory within the field of jewelry making, and thus, I find a great deal of pleasure when I find myself deeply connected to my chosen materials. VELVET DA VINCI SHOWSANTI-WAR MEDALS -- Artists Respond to the War Anti-War Medals: -- Artists Respond to the War 2003-2007 CHESS -- Contemporary Chessmen by International Makers COLLECT -- The New Art Fair in London for Contemporary Objects ORNAMETAL -- Our annual Christmas ornament exhibition, together with Thomas Mann Gallery Sayumi Yokouchi / Julia Turner -- New Jewelry The Plastic Show -- Celebrating 500 Plastic Jewelry Designs by Lark Books COUNTRY OF RESIDENCEUSA EDUCATIONState University of New York at New Paltz M.F.A. Metal Arts, 1999 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, B.F.A. Metal Arts, 1997 SELECTED EXHIBITIONSPan Pacific Show, Aaron Faber Gallery, New York, NY, 2008 Organic Style Curated by Jamie Bennett, Heidi Lowe Gallery, Rehoboth Beach, DE, 2008 SOFA Chicago, Represented by Sienna Gallery, Lennox, MA, 2007 Earring Show (500 Earrings by Lark Books) Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA, 2007 Sparkle Plenty 2, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA, 2006 New Jewelry BY Sayumi Yokouchi and Julia Turner, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA, 2006 Juxtapositions: Selections from the Metals Collection, Samuel Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, New York, 2005 Rings For Men, Gallery West, Tokyo, Japan, 2005 Palm Beach 3, Represented by Yaw Gallery at the Palm Beach Convention Center, FL, 2005 Ornament show, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA, 2004 SOFA Chicago, Represented by Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, MI, 2004 SOFA New York 'WEST goes EAST', Represented by Yaw Gallery, Birmingham,MI, 2004 Pill Boxes, SOFA Chicago by Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, MI, 2004 Tag the System, Showcase Gallery, New York, NY, 2004 Small Worlds, on-line exhibition, 2004 New York State of Mind: Experimental Video, The Bonn Biennale, Bonn, Germany, 2004 WEST goes EAST, SOFA New York by Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, 2004 Blind Pilots The Proposition, New York, 2004 The RxArt Ball: Holiday Ornaments to Benefit RxArt, Dolce & Gabbana Show Room, New York, 2003 SUNY: New Paltz Jewelers & Metalsmiths, Andora Gallery, Carefree, AZ, 2003 ANTI-WAR MEDALS, Artists Respond to the War, Velvet da Vinci, 2003, traveling through 2005 Amigos: an Art Showcase on the Lower East Side, Associated Projects, New York, 2003 Asian Roots, Western Soil: Visual Poetry in Metal, Japanese American Historical Society Gallery, San Francisco, 2003 Chess, Chessmen by International Artists, Velvet da Vinci, 2003, traveling through 2005 Kageki Metonymics: Subversions and Transformations from the Japanese Fringe, Linc Real Art, San Francisco, 2003 21st Century Metalsmith, group show, New Art Center, Newton MA, 2001 Paper, Rock Scissors, group show, Velvet da Vinci, 2001 Selected Faculty Exhibition, Craft Students League, New York, NY, 2000 Gardens of Pleasure, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, 2000 Boston Tea: A Party, SNAG Exhibition, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 2000 27th Annual Toys Designed by Artists Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, 2000 a closer look, contemporary metalwork and jewelry, James Howe Fine Arts Gallery, Kean University, New Jersey, 2000 Grass is Always Greener, Installation, MFA Thesis in Fine Arts Building at SUNY New Paltz, NY, 1999 National Crafts 1999, Lancaster Museum of Part, Lancaster, PA, 1999 Out of the Fire VIII, Kreft Center Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, 1998 La Petite V, Small Format Show, Alder Gallery, Eugene, OR, 1997 A Matter of Form, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA, 1997 Studio Concerns, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA, 1996 C.C.A.C., Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, 1995 TEACHINGPenland School of Crafts, Metals summer program "Reengaging the Readymade" University of Akron, Ohio, guest lecturer, Metals Department, Akron, Ohio, 2008 Studio 174, workshop instructor, the jewelry program, Brooklyn, NY 2008 SOFA Chicago, represented by Sienna Gallery, Lennox, MA, 2007 Virginia Commonwealth University, guest lecturer, Richmond, VA, 2007 92nd Street YWHA in New York, 2003 to present YWCA Craft Student League in New York, 2000 to present Invited Guest Lecturer, Metals Department, Summer Graduate Institute Program, Kuntztown University, Kutztown, PA, 2004 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS"The Art of Jewelry: Plastic & Resin" published by Lark Books 2008 "500 Earrings" published by Lark Books 2007 Metalsmith Magazine vol 27, no 1, Exhibition Reviews, "Sayumi Yokouchi and Julia Turner: New Jewelry" 2007 Style Weekly Exhibition Reviews, Sparkle Plenty 2: "Bizarre Bling", December 2006 So-En Japanese Fashion magazine August 2005, "Rings for Men" P161 "Chess: Chessmen by International Artists", Metalsmith Magazine, Winter 2004 "Asian Roots / Western Soil", Art Asia Pacific Magazine, Fall 2003 "Ornamental", Los Angeles Times, December 2, 2002 "Gardens of Pleasure", John Michael Kohler Arts Center, May/June 2000 "Exhibition in Print, 1999", Metalsmith Magazine, August Issue GRANTS AND AWARDSJentel Artist Residency Program, Banner, Wyoming, 2006 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONSMember of the Society of North American Goldsmiths, 1996 to present Top |
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