Los Angeles, CA – LeBasse Projects: Chinatown is proud to announce Jokes On Me, a solo exhibition from Los Angeles based artist Yoskay Yamamoto. In his new body of work, Yamamoto will feature a series of sculptures based on iconic childhood characters. Three years in the making, Jokes On Me is a conceptual project that explores current social issues through humor. Like a classic Sunday comic strip Yamamoto’s sculptures are charming and nostalgic but upon further inspection the individual works contain a darker underlying message and social commentary. This will be the artist’s first exhibition focused entirely on sculpture – in a range of mediums from plaster, resin, vinyl, clay and wood.
March 24th – April 21st, 2012
Artist reception: Saturday, March 24th, 7-10p
Whos the Daddy
About Yoskay Yamamoto
Born and raised in Toba, Japan, Yoskay Yamamoto moved to the United States at the age of 15. A self-trained illustrator, Yamamoto’s artistic tastes expanded as he fell in love with the pop culture of California. Yamamoto discovered a way to fuse the two different cultural backgrounds together into his work. Yamamoto nostalgically blends pop iconic characters from his adopted western home with traditional and mythical Japanese elements, balancing his Asian heritage with urban pop art. He has sold out his work recently at shows in New York, San Francisco, Boston and Los Angeles.
Big Boy
