Rimi Yang

Journey of Three Sisters, oil on canvas, 102 x 122 cm, 2015 (SOLD) Journey of Three Sisters, oil on canvas, 102 x 122 cm, 2015 (SOLD)
Rimi Yang is an ethnic Korean who was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. In 1986 she moved to Ohio, where she studied at Bowling Green University. She then moved to Los Angeles in 1991. There she studied at California State University, the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art and the Otis College of Art and Design. She also spent a summer in Florence, Italy, studying at the Florence Academy of Art. She has lived and worked near the ocean in Santa Monica since 1991.

Yang is known for her intense enthusiasm for vibrant color which is manifested in both her figurative and abstract paintings. She came to art after spending many years working in library science, but made up for that tardiness with her passion for solitary studio practice. Celebrating the chaotic emotional duality that exists in life in her art, she revels in the confusion mankind creates in its attempt to order the un-orderable and to explain the unexplainable. Adhering to Joseph Campbell's dictum that the best things in life are those you cannot explain, her paintings are intuitive and instinctive, balancing acts of contrasts.

She both builds up and tears down surfaces and images, searching for reason where none exists, for that imaginary perfect world of equilibrium on each canvas. Creating a new language with each work, using each as a stepping stone to the next, she is dedicated to making each painting better than her last. That Yang's work is universal in spirit yet personally intimate is evident upon viewing her paintings.

Intensely curious about both Eastern and Western art history, Yang reveals new meaning by deconstructing iconic images of each culture, borrowing images from masterpieces: flower paintings by Fantin Latour, Japanese woodblocks of geishas by Eizan, portraits of madams by Ingres. At the same time, Yang tries to cultivate new methods of painting by mixing up different techniques from various styles, escorting viewers down the path to her own unique and mysterious wonderland.

Yang has exhibited in California, Florida, Georgia, New York and Oho in the United States, as well as in British Columbia and Newfoundland in Canada. She has also recently exhibited her work in Europe.

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Available works

Strength in Flowers, oil on canvas, 122 x 122 cm, 2015
Utopian Jump, oil on canvas, 102 x 102 cm, 2015
Innocence in Art - After Anthony Van Dyke, oil on canvas, 122 x 122 cm, 2015
Lady in Graceful Dress, 2013, oil on canvas, 102 x 102 cm
Lady in Fashion, 2013, oil on canvas, 91,5 x 61 cm
One Clear Morning, 2013, oil on canvas, 91,5 x 91,5 cm
Song of Lost Love, 2012, oil on canvas, 122 x 91 cm
Triple Me after Henri Gascard, oil on canvas, 91 x 152 cm, 2015
Trust in Love - After Gainsborough, oil on canvas, 152 x 122 cm, 2015
Sweet Lady in White, 2013, oil on canvas, 152,5 x 76 cm
Muse with a Charm, 2013, oil on canvas, 76 x 76 cm
Ride in East Land, 2013, oil on canvas, 51 x 51 cm
Birth of Love, 2012, oil on canvas, 92 x 92 cm
Seemless Glamor, oil on canvas, 102 x 76 cm, 2015
Elegant Horse, oil on canvas, 102 x 122 cm, 2015
Sisters of Moon and Stars, 2013, oil on canvas, 102 x 102 cm
Aduluation of East, 2013, oil on canvas, 122 x 91,5 cm
Forever Child, 2012, oil on canvas, 122 x 122 cm
Graces and A Baby, 2012, oil on canvas, 76 x 102 cm
Image of Fifties, 2013, oil on canvas, 61 x 45 cm

SOLD works

Journey of Three Sisters, oil on canvas, 102 x 122 cm, 2015. (Sold)
Nature and Love, 2012, oil on canvas, 76 x 76 cm (Sold)
White Bird, oil on canvas, 152 x 122 cm, 2015 (Sold)
Joy of Life, 2013, oil on canvas, 122 x 91,5 cm (Sold)
Falling Apple, 2012, oil on canvas, 122 x 122 cm (Sold)
Saint and Angeles, 2012, oil on canvas, 102 x 76 cm (Sold)
Madam in fortune dress, 2011, oil on canvas, 122 x 122cm (Sold)
Drawing of a Lion, 2013, oil on canvas, 102 x 102 cm (Sold)
Portrait of a Boy After Gainsborough, 2013, oil on canvas, 107 x 91,5 cm (Sold)
Goddess' Lesson, 2013, oil on canvas, 91,5 x 122 cm
Two Birds and Sisters, 2012, oil on canvas, 91 x 91 cm (Sold)
Forrest King, 2012, oil on canvas, 152 x 76 cm (Sold)
Happy Gallop, 2012, oil on canvas, 76 x 76 cm (Sold)
Pink Bow, 2012, oil on canvas, 91 x 61 cm (Sold)
Asian Fairy, 2009, oil on canvas, 46 x 35,5 cm (Sold)
Ride in the rain, 2012, oil on canvas, 102 x 76 cm (Sold)
Lucky Year, 2011, oil on canvas, 122 x 91cm (Sold)
Fundamental Love, 2011, oil on canvas, 91 x 122 cm (Sold)
Carrot but love, 2011, oil on canvas, 91 x 91 cm (Sold)
Pray with Lotus, 2012, oil on canvas, 91 x 122 cm (Sold)