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For over three decades, Masami Yoshioka has created paintings, drawings, and installation works that explore both the abstract and the figurative, thus resisting categorization. Utilizing textures, colors, and space, Yoshioka develops unique pieces that remain elusive of any descriptive narrative but are characterized by his concepts of time and consciousness.
In 1982, Yoshioka began making his now-signature tape installations. The installations are made by stretching overlapping lengths of tape diagonally, vertically, and horizontally in varied configurations using only light and shadow as guides. The results are powerful two-dimensional works that evoke a sculptural presence. Yoshioka’s installations both incorporate and challenge their physical surroundings with consistency and ingenuity, at once enhancing the space with its expressionistic impact and rejecting it with its autonomy. Similarly, Yoshioka’s paintings are also highly acclaimed and refreshingly abstract creations.
In 2011, Yoshioka established the Steps Gallery in the Ginza district of Tokyo, where both renowned and rising artists have exhibited works that, in keeping with Yoshioka’s own approach to art, offer their own unique perspective on contemporary art.
Yoshioka’s works have been the subject of several exhibitions at prominent institutions both domestic and abroad, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and the Daejeon Museum of Art in South Korea in 2008.
Works by the artist are represented in major museum collections both domestically and internationally, including the Yamagata Museum of Art in Japan and Schema Art Museum in South Korea. He continues to display his works in Tokyo, New York, Germany, France, South Korea, and other prominent international art venues.
In 1982, Yoshioka began making his now-signature tape installations. The installations are made by stretching overlapping lengths of tape diagonally, vertically, and horizontally in varied configurations using only light and shadow as guides. The results are powerful two-dimensional works that evoke a sculptural presence. Yoshioka’s installations both incorporate and challenge their physical surroundings with consistency and ingenuity, at once enhancing the space with its expressionistic impact and rejecting it with its autonomy. Similarly, Yoshioka’s paintings are also highly acclaimed and refreshingly abstract creations.
In 2011, Yoshioka established the Steps Gallery in the Ginza district of Tokyo, where both renowned and rising artists have exhibited works that, in keeping with Yoshioka’s own approach to art, offer their own unique perspective on contemporary art.
Yoshioka’s works have been the subject of several exhibitions at prominent institutions both domestic and abroad, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and the Daejeon Museum of Art in South Korea in 2008.
Works by the artist are represented in major museum collections both domestically and internationally, including the Yamagata Museum of Art in Japan and Schema Art Museum in South Korea. He continues to display his works in Tokyo, New York, Germany, France, South Korea, and other prominent international art venues.