Fumio Yoshimura

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Fumio Yoshimura ( Japanese 吉 村 二三 夫 , Yoshimura Fumio ; born 1926 in Japan; died July 23, 2002 in Manhattan , New York City ) was a Japanese-American contemporary artist best known for his wooden sculptures .

life and work

Fumio Yoshimura studied painting at Tokyo University of the Arts , where he graduated in 1949. He came to Manhattan in the early 1960s . He was married to Kate Millett , who dedicated her book Sexual Politics to him. In 1985 the marriage ended in divorce.

In New York he taught himself to work wood with various knives, chisels and drills and developed a virtuoso technique. He started with shaping plants and vegetables. He used white, untreated limewood , which gave his sculptures of everyday things such as typewriters, sewing machines, bicycles or a hot dog stand an eerie pallor. His style is often assigned to hyperrealism , but he described his works as the embodiment of the "ghosts" of objects. Things for human activities are often the subject of his art, but he never depicted people. In 1986, Three Bicycles was the central work in an exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in New York City.

In 1981 Yoshimura was Artist in Residence at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College , where he then taught sculpture as an adjunct professor until 1993 . Works by Fumio Yoshimura are among others. a. in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Hood Museum.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fumio Yoshimura: Alger Hiss' Woodstock Typewriter , approx. 1970. Artnet
  2. ^ Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth. Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art , Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth 2009, ISBN 978-1-58465-787-3 , p. 121
  3. ↑ Janet Koplos, Bruce Metcalf: Makers. A History of American Studio Craft , The University of North Carolina Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8078-3413-8 , p. 375
  4. ^ Fumio Yoshimura, 76, Sculptor of Everyday , The New York Times, Aug. 10, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Yoshimura, Fumio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 吉 村 二三 夫 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese-American sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Japan
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 2002
Place of death New York City