Teruko Yokoi

Teruko Yokoi (横井 照子, Yokoi Teruko, born 1924) is an artist, most known for her abstract paintings.[1]

Early life and education

Yokoi was born in 1924 in Tsushima, Japan. [1] In the late 40s she studied with the Impressionist painter Takanori Kinoshita in Tokyo.[2] She moved to the United States in 1953, and studied at the California School of Fine Arts[1] (now San Francisco Art Institute). In New York she studied with Hans Hofmann, and with Julian Levi at the Art Students League.[1] In New York her style shifted away from objective Impressionism, becoming increasingly abstract.[2]

Career

As of 2010, Yokoi has held almost 80 solo exhibitions since 1954. She has held exhibitions at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, the Seibu Art Forum, and the Galerie Kornfeld in Bern, among others. She has won prizes at the Philadelphia Annual Exhibition in 1957, the Washington Biennale, and the San Francisco annual art exhibition. In November 2004, the Teruko Yokoi Hinagashi Museum was founded in Ena, Gifu, and in 2008, the Yokoi Teruko Fuji Museum of Art was founded in Fuji, Shizuoka.[1]

In 2014, at 90, Yokoi created works for a benefit exhibition, with the proceeds from the paintings going to UNESCO Biosphere Entlebuch."[3]

Personal life

Yokoi married famous painter Sam Francis, with whom she had a daughter.[4]

Books

  • Comme un petit coquelicot (1986)
  • Die fünf Jahreszeiten. Les cinq saisons. The five seasons: Teruko Yokoi (1990)[5]
  • Teruko Yokoi - Schnee Mond Blumen (2009)[6]
  • Mond-Sonne Jahrezeiten (2010)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Biography - Teruko Yokoi Hinageshi Art Museum".
  2. 1 2 "Kambly: Art Collection: 2001 – Teruko Yokoi (J)". Kambly. Kambly SA. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Haldemann-Burgi, Bettina (October 10, 2014). "Painted Poetry by Teruko Yokoi". Wochen-Zeitung für das emmental und entlebuch. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  4. ↑ Chu, Christie. "6 Things to Know About Sam Francis on His Birthday".
  5. ↑ Rotzler, Willy (1990). Die fünf Jahreszeiten = Les cinq saisons = The five seasons : Teruko Yokoi. Bern: Galerie Martin Krebs. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  6. ↑ Zaugg, Fred (2009). Teruko Yokoi - Schnee Mond Blumen. Bern: Kornfeld. ISBN 978-3857730498. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
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