Masako Yasuki, Clifford Iwao Arinaga Visiting Artist: Wind-scape Through Time —Walking, Touching, Imprinting Place
March 3 - 10, 2026
THE COMMONS GALLERY, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
ARTIST TALK
Thursday March 5, 5:00-6:00 PM
Art Building, Room 101
Masako Yasuki is a painter from Kyoto, Japan, known for her creative exploration and mingling of East Asian painting techniques and pigments (mineral colors, gold leaf) with Western approaches and paints (tempera, oils). She also strategically uses frottage -- the gathering of surface patterns and textures by rubbing -- as a way to experience, express, and memorialize landscape/cityscape. Artworks created in both of these modes of making are featured in this exhibition.
Born in Osaka Prefecture, Yasuki graduated with an MFA from Kyoto Seika University, where she currently serves as professor of painting. Her work explores nature, the environment, and society’s relationship with human corporeality, consciousness, and memory. She has been Artist-in-Residence at Edinburgh College of Art, Visiting Artist at Amherst University, and Guest Researcher at Smith College.
Artist’s Website: <http://www1.kcn.ne.jp/~
Exhibition and artist talk sponsored by the Clifford Iwao Arinaga Fund for the Art & Art History Department
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