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Yuki Maruyama

  

Yuki Maruyama is a painter and intermedia artist, born in the United States and raised in six different countries. Her fluency in three languages (English, Japanese and French) inclines her towards a fondness for multiple logics, in both art and other matters. Her creative activity spans the categories of drawing, painting, performance, assemblage, photography,
writing, and polymorphic silliness.

Yuki’s paintings take simple shapes abstracted from specific objects or events, often of a sexual nature, and reify them in unexpected (or, hopefully, not-too-expected) compositions. Body parts such as limbs, breasts, phalli, testicles, buttocks, fingers, tongues, eyes, bones and various orifices engulf, tackle, tickle, substitute, and become one another. In the process, they form alternative narratives; a fire hydrant, a pair of monkey-aliens, a hanging bunny, genetically manipulated plants. Yuki’s work attempts to instill a playful, obsessive imagination in the viewer: everything is something else, and sexuality is running around everywhere.

Yuki has recently been accepted to two San Francisco graduate art programs: the California College of Arts and Crafts (MFA in Painting and Drawing), and the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA in New Genres). She will be attending CCAC in the Fall of 2002.