Yuko Shiraishi

Yuko Shiraishi is recognised for her often large and minimal abstract canvases, exploring the formal properties of colour and composition. Bands of contrasting colours and tones ranging from delicate layered organic brushwork to sections of heavier, grainy and combed surfaces interplay to create formal rather than illusionistic space. Nuances of light and colour break through from subtle layers of underpainting. Whilst this preoccupation with the formal qualities of paint and composition roots Shiraishi’s work in the genre of American abstract and colour field painting, her works are sensual and evocative. Shiraishi’s use of colour, tone and composition make her works seductive to the eye and the senses; at the same time, her practice engages the viewer as an intellectual exploration into the formal language of painting.