Location

Country: Japan
City: Tokyo
Place: British Embassy

"Core Pink" addresses us primarily in terms of proportion and colour. A band of deep pink seems to hover in front of two bands of brown. Shiraishi's works can be thought of as developments of the "hard-edge" strand of geometric abstraction, seen in the work of painters such as Barnett Newman and Ellsworth Kelly. There is a sharp division between the three colours, and although there is little sense of depth, Shiraishi plays with space by allowing the deep pink to seem to stand further forward. A sense of depth is also created by the textured surface of the work. Shiraishi was born in Tokyo and has lived in Vancouver and London.

Places

Subjects

abstract

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Yuko Shiraishi (1956 - )

Title

Core Pink

Date

1994

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 152.00 cm, width: 137.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Annely Juda Fine Art, November 1997

Inscription

verso tr: YUKO SHIRAISHI / CORE PINK / 1994

GAC number

17287