Korean-American artist Rimi Yang was born and raised in Osaka, Japan.  She moved to the United States in 1986 and shortly after, settled in California where she continues to live and work today.  In addition to having exhibited wide ly across the US and Canada throughout her career, the artist has recently been shown in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Dublin and England.

Yang’s paintings -mostly figurative, but with a playful approach to abstraction- reveal an intuitive, contrast-rich take on Eastern and Western art history.  It is as though they are struggling to make sense of dualities which simultaneously inspire and confuse us in their attempts to structure the world.  Pleasantly suspended between familiar polarities like east-west, male-female, high-low and old-new, the viewer can’t help but be moved by the artist’s apparent search for meaning. (Text by Kirsten Hinder)