Saturday – March 25, 2006

2:00 to 3:30 PM
(Please arrive by 1:45 PM to check in.)

170 South La Brea Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90036

Registration deadline is March 17, 2006. The fee is $10 for members and $15 for non-members. Late registration at the door is $5 extra.

TO REGISTER: Make your check payable to SCWCA. Mail to SCWCA, 2100 N. Main Street, #A5, Los Angeles,CA 90031. Contact Ann Isolde at annisolde@scwca.org or call 310.315.0840 if you have questions.

“One of the ideas my work addresses is the opposition between surface decoration (always gendered feminine) and the presumptively masculine search for deep meaning.”

Japanese-born artist TAKAKO YAMAGUCHI masterfully fuses Eastern and Western aesthetics, traditional Japanese techniques and contemporary western expressions. Her influences range from the fabric design of kimonos to nineteenth century European Romantic landscapes and seascapes. The artist’s nature-based paintings transform the earth’s topography–sky clouds, islands, streams, rain, land and sea–into a vocabulary of abstractions and patterns. Coming here from another country and culture, YAMAGUCHI thinks of herself as an outsider despite the fact that she has lived and worked in the United States most of her adult life. While this situation is not unique, perhaps it explains her affinity for images and and ideas that fall outside the boundaries of modernist professional practice and good taste.

YAMAGUCHI has been showing her work with Jan Baum since 1981. This will be a rare opportunity to hear from both artist and gallerist, while still allowing ample time for questions.

DIRECTIONS: Take the Santa Monica (10) Freeway to La Brea Boulevard. Exit at La Brea and go north. Cross Wilshire Boulevard and continue to 2nd Street. The Jan Baum Gallery is one building north of the corner of 2nd and La Brea on the east side of the street.