Kumi yamashita biography
Kumi yamashita artist.
interview with artist kumi yamashita
interview with artist kumi yamashita
all photos © kumi yamashita, 2015
kumi yamashita is a japanese artist (b.
1968, takasaki) who now lives and works in new york.
Kumi yamashita biography
many of her works see the artist sculpt using light and shadow – constructing single or multiple objects and placing them in relation to a single light source. the complete artwork is therefore comprised of both the material (the solid objects) and the immaterial (the light or shadow).
designboom spoke to kumi about her influences and creative process.
designboom: please could you tell us briefly about your background and how you came to be an artist.
kumi yamashita: I was born in japan, just outside of tokyo and lived there until I came to the states as a high school exchange student.
my mother studied fashion and would design and make clothes for me and my two sisters when we were growing up. my father was a sculp