STATEMENT

Yumie Kusuda integrates her organic artwork into inorganic metal, primarily aluminium and steel, and she has been almost recycling the discarded metal. She handles the brain involved in unconscious and non logical emotions as input into her art, and she explores self-discovery and self-development to float the subconscious mind to the surface of her artwork. She gives a unique and surreal expression, delicate psychological intricacies. Even though she is sometimes showing us the confusion of the modern world, she hopes to promote our vision and action toward the desired goals of self-realization and happiness.

BIOGRAPHY

Yumie Kusuda is a Japanese contemporary avant-garde artist, currently active in New York.

By 2019, her creative arts had been exhibited over 50 times at various galleries, museums and events. In recent years, she became known for her metal pieces such as a series of wreath and diamond sculptures, created with welded steel and finished with a shining surface, as well as for her mixed media paintings in which she adds gems on fluorescent acrylic color painting on aluminum board.

She was born in Hyōgo and lived in Tokyo, Japan. After having a long career as a photo retoucher, in 2005, she became a student at Art University where she began exploring oil painting using only carefully selected black pigment and oil on aluminum board. Since 2007, her black oil paintings have been exhibited at galleries and museums in Tokyo, Seoul, Los Angeles and New York. In October 2011, she was chosen as fellow member of "The Dokuritsu Art Association" which is a big group of Japanese artists organized in 1930 by up-and-coming painters.

In January 2012, she decided to move to New York to become a worldwide active artist.

Since December 2012, she has been exploring creating metal sculpture in the welding studio at The Art Students League of New York, and in 2016, began creating the colorful acrylic paintings, instead of the black oil paintings, on aluminum board.

Since October 2013, she has been an active sculptor member in "New York Society of Women Artists (NYSWA), a historic group for professional women artists, where members are accepted through a rigorous jury process. Her metal sculpture was displayed in the NYSWA's exhibition at various galleries: Weill Cornell Medical College, Samuel J. Wood Library, NY, (2015); George Billis Gallery, Chelsea district, NY, (2016); Living Room Gallery in St. Peter Church, NY, (2017); the Mikhail Zakin gallery in The Art School at Old Church, NJ, (2018); the Village Center, Port Jefferson, NY, (2018); Prince street gallery, Chelsea district, NY, (2018); The Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, The Art League of Long Island, NY, (2018); at Blue Mountain Gallery, Chelsea district, NY, (2019).

In 2019, recent events and honors include the "AD art show 2019" by MvVO Art, Westfield World Trade Center, New York, and "Solo Show" by LinkNYC Digital Display on the street by MvVO Art, East 56th Street, New York. Articles about her mixed media paintings in these shows have been published several times in New York newspapers.