Title: Little White Bear Boy, 2021
Artist: Mayuka Yamamoto
Year: 2021
Medium Type: Print | Screenprint in colours on paper
Frame: Framed
Certificate and Signature: Signed by the artist
Limited Edition of 75

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Mayuka Yamamoto
Japanese, b. 1964

Mayuka Yamamoto’s contemplative paintings focus on wide-eyed children wearing animal suits who gaze directly at the viewer or float adrift in dreamlike landscapes that range from fantastical forests to wintry tundras. Yamamoto’s costuming foregrounds the psychological states of her child subjects, appearing as a sort of armor or second skin that alternately heightens or hides their interior emotions. Her work calls to mind the distended proportions and child subjects of artists like Yoshitomo Nara and Margaret Keane. Yamamoto received her MFA from the Musashino Art University in Tokyo and has exhibited in New York, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Taipei, among others.

No apparent condition issues noted. The piece has also been examined out of frame.