Nancy Yoshii (United States) Residence: October 2017
Nancy Yoshii is a fine craft artist working in collage, digital photography, jewelry, fiber, found object sculpture and mixed media. Having spent thirty years as a ceramic artist, she has found it liberating to enter the world of color, pattern, and composition that is collage and mixed media.
Her recent work, both abstract and figurative, is composed of many materials…whatever works is invited into the piece. A collector of “interesting” trash, she enjoys upcycling castoffs. Themes vary, ranging from environmental and political issues, to botanical influences, to pure abstractions. While at Studio Kura, she plans to incorporate locally found materials into
modular collage patchworks and into her line of paper/mixed media jewelry.
Now living in New York, Nancy spent her teen and young adult years in Fukuoka, so she is excited to be “coming home.” Japanese aesthetics figure strongly in her work, and a recent trip
to India also provided immense inspiration. An artist with no formal training, she is the grateful recipient of 37 years of nurturing and generosity from her fellow fine craft artists in the Long Island Craft Guild. Nancy exhibits her work in solo and group exhibitions around the New York metropolitan area.
– Nancy Yoshii’s website and Instagram
Paper Earrings
mixed media earrings made with paper, paint, monoprint, computer parts, beads
There Is a Crack in Everything
mixed media with discarded cello, brass, misc. papers, wire, paint
Blood Moon Variation
mixed media collage
Geo Rhythms I
mixed media collage
Spoiler Alert – Waste
mixed media collage with found objects