Yuki Nakayama, Hiding under the Sun No.2, 2023 Acrylic and graphite on canvas, 127 x 152.4cm
YUKI NAKAYAMA (b. 1992, Okinawa, Japan) works and lives in New York.
Nakayama’s works are a dialogue between objects in space as she explores the movement of stillness and its playful act. Using superimposed perspectives, her paintings explore the stillness of an object, its volume,and its environment. Each character has its own rhythm, claiming their relationships to one another. The objects are the pivoting points in which the shadows explore the crevices of its surroundings. They absorb and reflect like sound traveling between and within. Inviting the eyes to fluidly change in scale as one moves through and beyond.
In 2008, Nakayama decided to move to New York to pursue her passion for the arts. She is a graduate from Parsons the New School for Design and The Cooper Union, where she studied architecture.