Subliminal-Yellow - Oil on Canvas 76.5'' x 64'' Yuumi Asatsu explores the emotive potential of paint, using her vibrant palette and evocative marks to draw viewers in. Even when Asatsu’s oil paintings depict still scenes or fields of color, they are full of movement. Strokes dance across her compositions and the paint takes on a life of its own. Textured and dense, the surfaces of Asatsu’s canvases sometimes resemble geographical terrains in which valleys dip into darkness and lithe leaves or petals blow in the wind.

Asatsu has an affinity for neo-Expressionism, knowing that dramatic brush marks and hues have the power to kindle emotion. She has also been influenced by German photographer Martin Liebscher, an artist who uses repetition to make conventional scenes absurd.

Asatsu, who usually crafts an image a day, believes an artwork should ultimately be free of an artist’s feeling and so she distances her personal story from her work. She paints to offer viewers an emotional vehicle for experiencing the world, and she invites them to project their own feelings onto her canvases.

A native of Hiroshima, Japan, Asatsu has exhibited internationally. Most recently, her work has appeared at the Design Festa Gallery in Tokyo, and the Sala Barna Gallery in Spain. Asatsu now lives and works in Chiba, Japan.

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