Yuko Sakurai
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Yuko Sakurai (1970, Tokyo) is a Japanese artist.
Yuko Sakurai is the daughter of the sculptor Toshio Sakurai. After training as a French Pastry-cook, Sakurai decided to become an artist in 1998. Her work can be characterized as minimalistic, focusing mainly on color and texture. The careful workmanship and the awareness of material, that Sakurai acquired from her work as a Pastry-cook, is visible in her work paintings.
Sakurai started her career as an assistant to Rene Rietmeyer, occasionally also to Tomoji Ogawa and Takashi Suzuki during their exhibition projects in Germany (2000).
From 2001 onwards she developed her own artistic approach. After close examination of Robert Ryman’s painting and impressed by the work of land artist Hamish Fulton, she began making series of relief-like structured, often multi-part works. Her paintings are expressions of her emotions caused by experience or remembrance of landscapes.
Sakurai is involved in the international art project Personal Structures.
Since 1999, she has been living alternately in the Netherlands and in Miami Beach, USA.
