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By overlaying palindromes, Rorschach, and mirrors into a constellation of mirroring within mirroring, Yamaoka offers a palimpsest—an insistent co-mingling—of the corporeal and the perceptual, of body and vision intact, of linguistic and visual cognition. It is the magnetic pull of community and love, an interiority that doubles, the self that finds in someone else in the world a simultaneity that is not an exact mirror but no longer alone. An echolocation of fleeting life.
– Jo-ey Tang, “Epochs become infinite”
Emerging from a formative background in photography and fascinated by the camera's ability to record and inability to represent, Carrie Yamaoka explores processes of recording and transformation across painting, sculpture, and installation. The artist’s first monograph is a thoughtful examination of her cross-disciplinary practice over several decades.
Yamaoka’s visually arresting, ground-breaking works reveal how materiality, temporality, and form connect, calling the viewer's attention to the topography of surfaces, the tactility of the barely visible, and the chain of planned and chance incidents that determine the outcome of an art object. This volume also strongly features her latest focus: a return to earlier works, taking them apart to create newly transformed, re-configured pieces. In Yamaoka’s words, “The liminal, the scarred, and the ephemeral are all laid bare.”
RE: Carrie Yamaoka is designed and printed with a formal nod to the visual phenomena at play when encountering the artist’s work in person—the ways in which reflection, refraction, distortion, and the surrounding environment (including the viewer) become part of the compositional field.
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By overlaying palindromes, Rorschach, and mirrors into a constellation of mirroring within mirroring, Yamaoka offers a palimpsest—an insistent co-mingling—of the corporeal and the perceptual, of body and vision intact, of linguistic and visual cognition. It is the magnetic pull of community and love, an interiority that doubles, the self that finds in someone else in the world a simultaneity that is not an exact mirror but no longer alone. An echolocation of fleeting life.
– Jo-ey Tang, “Epochs become infinite”
Emerging from a formative background in photography and fascinated by the camera's ability to record and inability to represent, Carrie Yamaoka explores processes of recording and transformation across painting, sculpture, and installation. The artist’s first monograph is a thoughtful examination of her cross-disciplinary practice over several decades.
Yamaoka’s visually arresting, ground-breaking works reveal how materiality, temporality, and form connect, calling the viewer's attention to the topography of surfaces, the tactility of the barely visible, and the chain of planned and chance incidents that determine the outcome of an art object. This volume also strongly features her latest focus: a return to earlier works, taking them apart to create newly transformed, re-configured pieces. In Yamaoka’s words, “The liminal, the scarred, and the ephemeral are all laid bare.”
RE: Carrie Yamaoka is designed and printed with a formal nod to the visual phenomena at play when encountering the artist’s work in person—the ways in which reflection, refraction, distortion, and the surrounding environment (including the viewer) become part of the compositional field.
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By overlaying palindromes, Rorschach, and mirrors into a constellation of mirroring within mirroring, Yamaoka offers a palimpsest—an insistent co-mingling—of the corporeal and the perceptual, of body and vision intact, of linguistic and visual cognition. It is the magnetic pull of community and love, an interiority that doubles, the self that finds in someone else in the world a simultaneity that is not an exact mirror but no longer alone. An echolocation of fleeting life.
– Jo-ey Tang, “Epochs become infinite”
Emerging from a formative background in photography and fascinated by the camera's ability to record and inability to represent, Carrie Yamaoka explores processes of recording and transformation across painting, sculpture, and installation. The artist’s first monograph is a thoughtful examination of her cross-disciplinary practice over several decades.
Yamaoka’s visually arresting, ground-breaking works reveal how materiality, temporality, and form connect, calling the viewer's attention to the topography of surfaces, the tactility of the barely visible, and the chain of planned and chance incidents that determine the outcome of an art object. This volume also strongly features her latest focus: a return to earlier works, taking them apart to create newly transformed, re-configured pieces. In Yamaoka’s words, “The liminal, the scarred, and the ephemeral are all laid bare.”
RE: Carrie Yamaoka is designed and printed with a formal nod to the visual phenomena at play when encountering the artist’s work in person—the ways in which reflection, refraction, distortion, and the surrounding environment (including the viewer) become part of the compositional field.
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Artwork by Carrie Yamaoka
Texts by Carrie Yamaoka, Jo-ey Tang, Josiah McElheny, Jill H. Casid, and Claire Grace
Correspondence between Carrie Yamaoka and Élisabeth LeboviciHardcover
9.5 x 12.5 inches
263 pages / 139 imagesTrade ISBN: 9798890181114
Signed ISBN: 9798890181121 -
Carrie Yamaoka (b. 1957, she/they) works at the intersection between records of chemical action/reaction and the desire to apprehend a picture emerging in fleeting and unstable states of transformation. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the ICA Philadelphia, MoMA PS1, Palais de Tokyo, Henry Art Gallery, Artists' Space, Centre Pompidou, Wexner Center for the Arts, Leslie Lohman Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, Fondation Ricard, and MassMOCA. Writing about her work has appeared in The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Artnews, The New Yorker, Time Out/NY, Hyperallergic, Interview, and BOMB. Yamaoka is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2019) and an Anonymous Was A Woman award (2017) and her work is included in the collections of the Buffalo AKG Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Henry Art Gallery, and Centre Pompidou. Yamaoka is represented by Commonwealth and Council, Ulterior, and Kiang Malingue.
The New York-based artist is a founding member of fierce pussy, the queer art collective, alongside artists Nancy Brooks Brody (1962-2023), Joy Episalla and Zoe Leonard. The group continues to collaborate today.