YOKOMIZO MIYUKI (B. 1968)

Yokomizo's paintings consist of an accumulation of vertical and horizontal lines. Rather than using a brush, she applies paint to a thread stretched over a canvas and flicks it with her fingers, creating a grid-like trajectory. Splashes of paint, smearing, overlapping colors, and a sense of chance beyond the artist's control, engrave the trajectory of the action onto the canvas. However, Yokomizo insists that her work is sculpture. She states, "She plays the threads as if carving, engraving and scraping the sculptures", and "Physical acts are important, and she creates paintings that are more like sculptures than paintings".

"Visible, however impossible to touch.
Invisible but existent.
A sign in life, an indication of the ambiguous.
One recognizes it.
How ever one cannot be certain.
I attempt to express vague existence."
-Yokomizo Miyuki