Ko Kirk Yamahira

EXHIBITIONS Forthcoming solo, November 5 - December 3, 2022 artist reception Nov 12, 5 - 7pm Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Sept 11 - Jan 23, 2022, Frye Art Musuem, Seattle WA Emily Counts & Ko Kirk Yamahira, July 17 — Aug 29, 2020, studio e Fiber, March 6 — Sept 27, 2020, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Link to Ben Haywood talking about Ko Kirk’s installation at The Bellevue Arts Museum “The obsession of pursuit of the meaning is unlocked by the pure enjoyment of the creative act.” Ko Kirk Yamahira has made a practice of unravelling painted canvases resulting in sculptural pieces that are extra-dimesional. In some sense the work resides in the interstitial space between two dimensional painting and three dimensional sculpture – a performance process, albeit one where the viewer only gets to watch what’s left after the delicate, intuitive separation of warp and weft. His is a process of inversion: image becoming shape, surface becoming form, the sensual drape inherent in textile formed by working backwards. The resulting fluidity gives us a glimpse of a fourth dimension: still things are seen as in motion across time. Born in Los Angeles and raised in Tokyo and London, Ko Kirk Yamahira moved to Seattle from New York in 2015. He has exhibited in galleries in the United States and Japan, both individually and as a member of the artist collectives SOIL and Art Beasties. His work is in numerous private, corporate, civic and museum collections, and has received several recognition awards. Ko Kirk Yamahira lives and works in Seattle, WA. https://studioegallery.net/Ko-Kirk-Yamahira