Artists share joy for discovery

Exeter artists and modern language learners alike were the beneficiaries of artists in residences in October when Japanese artists Takuya and Minami Yoshida visited campus.

The duo spent time with art students in visits to painting, drawing and ceramics classes as well as students studying Japanese language and culture.

Their appearance was sponsored by the Michael Clark Rockefeller Class of 1956 Visiting Artist Fund. The fund provides opportunities for Exeter art students to interact with significant, contemporary artists and create unique works of art in a master-class environment.

Takuya Yoshida, is a painter who uses expressionistic qualities and bright, inventive colors that are derived from the raw beauty of the natural world. He started studying art in New Hampshire at Plymouth State University and received a bachelor’s in fine arts, and then went on to graduate school at New York Studio School and received a master’s in painting.

Minami Yoshida is a sculptor. Her works celebrate the essence of models whom she knows and sculpts. Her figurative forms are abstracted by simplifying the details and textures. These abstractions tend to exude more humanistic and emotional qualities. She is heavily influenced by the Superflat Art Movement and artists such as Yoshimoto Nara and the ancient ceramics has been showing her artwork all around Japan since then. She received her undergraduate degree at Tokyo Zokei University in 2016.