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Artist Statement:
Artist’s Statement
I never consciously decided to
be an artist. It just seemed
the natural thing to do. I
have played with my visual and
verbal imagination ever since
I can remember. Children’s
book illustrations and
animated films have influenced
me as much as art from
history, narrative...
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Artist Exhibitions:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1992 Black Bull Gallery,
London, UK
1992 Alba Gallery, Kew,
Surrey, UK
1993 Atlantis Gallery,
London, UK
1998 Open House Exhibition,
Miami, FL
1999 Ryals Gallery,‘Images
Beyond Material’ Boca Raton,FL
2000 Brickell Square Lobby
Gallery, Miami, Fl
2000 The Datran Center
Gallery, ‘Not On This Earth’
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Artist Galleries:
Artist In Residence, Coconut
Grove, Miami, Florida
Baxter Galleries, Miami,
Florida & New York
Art+ Merrick Park, Coral
Gables, Miami, Florida
AML Gallery,
Henley-On-Thames,UK...
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Collections:
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Atlantis European Fine Art,
PLC, London, England
Columbus Holdings, PLC,
London, England
Ryals Gallery, Boca Raton,
Florida
First Arabian Financial,
Miami, Florida
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
England, Scotland, Italy,
Netherlands, USA, Spain,
France, Taiwan, Belgium
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Commissions:
PALLADIO INTERIORS, For:
The Sultan of Brunei
Harrods Department Store,
Knightsbridge, London, UK
Mr & Mrs Peter Freymuth,
Weston, Florida, USA
Rafany Alkhalifa, Miami,
Florida, USA
Gonzalo & Janette Gonzalez,
Miami, Florida. USA
Renaldo Iragorri, Miami,
Florida, USA...
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Reviews for Sharon Yamamoto:
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PUBLICATIONS include
Art Business Today, October 2004
New York Spirit Magazine, Cover Artist, December 2003/January 2004
The Village Magazine, August 2003
The Hill Magazine, London, August 2003
Nexus Magazine, Cover Artist, July / August 2003
Natural Awakenings, Cover Artist, June 2003
Natural Awakenings, Cover Artist, February 2003
Nexus Magazine, Cover Artist, March 2003
Biscayne Bay Tribune, Featured Artist, July 2002
The Hill Magazine, London, July 2001
Miami Herald (El Nuevo Herald), May 6, 2001
Boca Raton News, February 2, 2001
Art Business News, Featured Emerging Artist, January, 2001
Selecta Magazine, En Miami Feature, September 2000
City Link Magazine, The Art Issue, August 30, 2000
City Link Magazine, Featured Artist, July 26, 2000
Ibero Americana Internacional, vol.5, no. 16, 2000
Sunpost, Art Section, August 2000
Diario de la Mujer, August, 2000
East Sider Magazine, August, 2000
Boca Life, Featured Artist, March 19, 1999
Boca Life, Art Beat Featured Artist, March 19, 1999
Thursday Times, March 18, 1999
Art Connoisseur Magazine, Featured Artist,vol.1,no.3.1999
New Art International, vol. 4, 1998-9
From the Guest book and other Comments.
"These pictures jump out at you, it's like 3D. They're absolutely startling and they're down to earth. How did this delightful, quiet lady produce these paintings?"
Sir Freddie Laker
The painting [Sunrise Voyage] is so intense and yet so relaxed. The woman in the boat is just enjoying the beautiful sunset. Her red hair is flowing in the breeze as she gently strokes the cat and enjoys one more day. Sharon's work is so pronounced, there's so much life in it. She pays attention to detail, I love that."
Bernie Meyers, Miami
"These paintings are beyond the physical, your eye is stretched and you have to use your own imagination. She brings into focus the invisible and it becomes visible to you."
Niama Reynolds
If you look at the faces - they are alive. There's a kind of magic in the work, and I live the colors. The pictures are very peaceful and incredibly rounded, while the colors are very soft.
Sylvia Lorse, Miami
"She's wonderfully evocative of Botero with her shapes, and one of the pictures reminds me of Chagall."
Hermine Gladstone
I look at this from the point of view of a sailor. There's a gale blowing and there's this cat sitting on the boat. Being a boater of course I can't imagine that."
Sir Freddie Laker
Richmond and Twickenham Times, Friday, November 13, 1992
After lying dormant for several months the Alba Gallery in Kew has sprung to life with an exhibition of importance and great interest.
Important in that Chicago born Sharon Yamamoto White, having established herself as exhibitor in the Whitechapel East London Open Studios 1992, has already sold a dozen paintings at between 300 pounds and 900 pounds. Interesting because her style is highly individual in its evocation of matters and moods outside the realm of normal experience.
Her pictures are mostly of elemental figures of exaggerated . . bulkiness whether floating in space or resting weightlessly on terra firma. They are beautifully drawn and they glow with dark reds, burnished browns and soft yellows. Her best work is on a large scale as in Fearless Falling and the curiously titled Journey of the Body and Spirit with a Yapping Dog, a study of ecstasy and sublime indifference with a strong humor.
Some kind of story lurks behind such works a The First Lesson and An Important Idea; there is a touching simplicity about Quiet Words, Soft Fur, in which a child is eagerly questioning an unidentified member of the family. Sharon's use of masks in two of the pictures, no doubt relating to her Japanese ancestry, is terrifying in Introduction Ritual.
Dennis Burgess Bigg
"...her paintings come through many years of introspection, self analysis and delving into the depths of her soul. All has been climaxed into the paintings as we see them today...she has possibly pinnacled in her art and she has reached a very beautiful, perplexing, spiritual, mystical and tremendously strong visual stage at this present
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