ArtistYamagata, Hiro

Artist Years1948-living

Artist NationalityJapanese

TitleChildren’s Festival

Yearca. 1995

MediumPrint > Screenprint/Serigraph

DimensionsComposition: 25 X 25 inches
Sheet: 29 X 30.5 inches

Catalog ReferenceN/A

NotesHiro Yamagata, born Hiromichi Yamagata in Maihara, Shiga prefecture, Japan is a painter/artist, based in Los Angeles, California. As a silkscreen artist, he is known for his use of vivid colors in his pieces. He is also known for his use of laser and hologram technology recently, and is recognized as a pioneer in the former. In 1972, he moved to Milan, Italy to live with a girlfriend. When the relationship ended he decided to move to Paris and settled there. His first solo exhibition was held in Vienna in 1973. Most of his works in the mid-1970s were paintings in water and oil colors. He became fascinated with Jazz and organized events in the music idiom at his own expense. In 1978, Yamagata moved to Los Angeles and started to use bright silkscreen colors in his work. In the 1980s, he produced work for the Air & Space Bicentennial (1983), the 1984 Olympics, the hundredth memorial anniversary of the Statue of Liberty (1986), the Australia foundation memorial (1988), and the hundredth anniversary of the Eiffel Tower (1988). In 1988 he produced an official portrait of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and started a series of work about golf in collaboration with Jack Nicklaus. He participated in a charity art project, "Very Special Arts" and an exhibition of his work toured Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Yokohama, and Fukuoka, Japan. He published a book of his work in 1987. In 1987, he established the Yamagata Foundation and in collaboration with the Kennedy Foundation held a charity event for physically disadvantaged people.
(source: wikipedia.org)

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