Arisa Yoshioka

31 October - 17 December 2022

Cob is pleased to present a suite of mixed media works by artist Arisa Yoshioka as their debut UK solo exhibition.

Born in Mongolia and raised in Tokyo, Yoshioka is now based in New York, where she works primarily in oil paint and mixed media on linen and canvas. Mostly on a small scale, her paintings have a distinctive quality of perspectival flatness about them, in which certain recurrent motifs – hands, glassware, the female body – seem to hover like petals on water, or shadows playing across a wall. At the same time, the presence of decorative items like beads or fabric attached to the surface of many of the works adds to a disarming mood of disruptive, homespun playfulness.

Yoshioka characterises her approach to artmaking in terms of exploration and testing of her chosen media: an accretive process of bricolage invoking a loose, cosmopolitan tradition of naïf or outsider art that is responsive to an eclectic range of influences. Figures like the British artist Madge Gill, the Italian Carol Rama and the Japanese Kiyoshi Yamashita are all present in Yoshioka’s practice. Her work responds to that of figures who have sometimes been deemed ‘mad’, but whose imagery radiates a special warmth – a kind of friendly magic in which the familiar becomes ineffably strange.

Just as Yoshioka invokes this broad graphic tradition, so she also alludes to the work of photographers and other artists whose work has included photography, like Masao Yamamoto and Hans-Peter Feldmann. The idea of multiple photographic exposures is incorporated into Yoshioka’s images as a way of rendering the world in terms of translucent layers of meaning. The real and the imaginary are inseparably bound up: frames that have become fused together in a dark room experiment and can no longer be prised apart.

Appearing like fragments of fully realised personal mythologies, the works in this selection mark the emergence of an unusual visual imagination: one that moves in an indeterminate space between realism and abstraction, sending back fragile messages from a more complete world.

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Artworks
Arisa Yoshioka
Chocolate mint cigarettes, 2021
Oil on linen
9 x 10 in
22.9 x 25.4 cm
Arisa Yoshioka, Chocolate mint cigarettes, 2021, Oil on linen, Installation view
Artworks
Arisa Yoshioka
Ayatori, 2021
Mixed media on linen
9 x 10 in
22.9 x 25.4 cm
Artworks
Arisa Yoshioka
Dying birds, 2021
Oil on linen
9 x 10 in
22.9 x 25.4 cm
Artworks
Arisa Yoshioka
Peach color strategy, 2021
Oil and beads on linen
12 x 15 in
30.5 x 38.1 cm
Artworks
Arisa Yoshioka
In bloom, 2021
Oil on linen
13 x 17 in
33 x 43.2 cm
Artworks
Arisa Yoshioka
Fragile things, 2021
Oil on linen
14 x 16 in
35.6 x 40.6 cm
Artworks
Arisa Yoshioka
Eternal Feminine, 2021
Oil on canvas
19 x 24 in
48.3 x 61 cm
Artworks
Arisa Yoshioka
Floral inferno, 2021
Oil on linen
19 x 23 in
48.3 x 58.4 cm
Artworks
Arisa Yoshioka
My empty glass wants to be next to yours, 2021
Oil on cotton
13 x 15 in
33 x 38.1 cm
Artworks
Arisa Yoshioka
Untitled, 2021
Mixed media on linen
16 x 18 in
40.6 x 45.7 cm
Arisa Yoshioka, Untitled, 2021, Mixed media on linen, Installation view
Artworks
Arisa Yoshioka
Floral Mutter , 2022
Oil and lace on linen
20 x 22 in
50.8 x 55.9 cm
Artworks
Arisa Yoshioka
☆, 2021
Mixed media on linen
14 x 16 in
35.6 x 40.6 cm
Arisa Yoshioka, ☆, 2022, Oil and Lace on linen, Installation view
Arisa Yoshioka I love you and I want to see you , 2021, Oil on burlap, Installation view
Arisa Yoshioka
I love you and I want to see you, 2021 Oil on burlap
12 x 18 in
30.5 x 45.7 cm

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