Description:
Emerging from a formative background in photography and fascinated by the camera's ability to record and inability to represent, Carrie Yamaoka explores processes of recording and transformation across painting, sculpture, and installation. The artist's first monograph is a thoughtful examination of her cross-disciplinary practice over several decades.
Yamaoka's visually arresting, ground-breaking works reveal how materiality, temporality, and form connect, calling the viewer's attention to the topography of surfaces, the tactility of the barely visible, and the chain of planned and chance incidents that determine the outcome of an art object. This volume also strongly features her latest focus: a return to earlier works, taking them apart to create newly transformed, re-configured pieces. In Yamaoka's words, "The liminal, the scarred, and the ephemeral are all laid bare."
re: Carrie Yamaoka is designed and printed with a formal nod to the visual phenomena at play when encountering the artist's work in person--the ways in which reflection, refraction, distortion, and the surrounding environment (including the viewer) become part of the compositional field. This in-depth study of the artist's oeuvre is accompanied by texts from artists and scholars Jill H. Casid, Claire Grace, Josiah McElheny, and Jo-ey Tang, with a correspondence between Yamaoka and the art historian and critic Elisabeth Lebovici.
Yamaoka's work is included in the collections of the Buffalo AKG Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Henry Art Gallery, and Centre Pompidou. She is also a founding member of fierce pussy, the queer art collective, alongside artists Nancy Brooks Brody (1962-2023), Joy Episalla and Zoe Leonard. The group continues to collaborate today.
Brief description: Carrie Yamaoka is a visual artist working at the intersection between records of chemical action/reaction and the desire to apprehend a picture emerging in fleeting and unstable states of transformation. Their work has been featured in exhibitions at the ICA (Philadelphia), MOMA/PS1 (New York), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), the Henry (Seattle), Artists Space (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH), Leslie Lohman Museum (New York), Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Fondation Ricard (Paris), and MassMOCA. Writing about her work has appeared in the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Artnews, The New Yorker, Time Out/NY, Hyperallergic, Interview and BOMB. Their work is included in the collections of the Buffalo AKG, Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Henry Art Gallery, and Centre Pompidou. Yamaoka is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2019) and an Anonymous Was A Woman award (2017). She is represented by Commonwealth and Council (LA / Mexico City), Ulterior (NYC), and Kiang Malingue ( Hong Kong). She is also a founding member of the queer art collective fierce pussy. Yamaoka lives and works in New York.