Monday, November 21, 2011

Yuko Shimizu; A Phantasmagorical Graphic Novel

The exceptional illustrator Yuko Shimizu creates her work melding traditional Japanese graphic prints with surreal comic art. Inspired by Matthew Barney, Jean Paul Gaultier, Raymond Pettibon, and eccentric raconteur Momus, the award-winning New York-based artist draws her basic forms and figures with calligraphy brushes and later digitally supplements them with additional colors and backgrounds. This technique results in elegant and harmoniously composed creative visions and science-fiction fantasies, which are often erotically charged and combine the best of American pop and Japanese comic culture.

Yuko Shimizu has won numerous international awards and has done commissioned work for the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, SPIN, Playboy, GQ, the New York Times and many more...

A comprehensive collection of Shimizu's different strikes and strokes, this book explores the Japan-born artist's marriage of East and West, commerce and art, mind and matter, sexy heroines and restrained sensuality.

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Yuko Shimizu is published by Gestalten-Berlin
Courtesy Yuko Shimizu / Gestalten-Berlin
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1 comment:

  1. David BrooksMarch 20, 2014 at 10:55 PM

    Not the Norman Rockwell I remember from my America. David Brooks.

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