RIMI YANG

Rimi Yang is an ethnic Korean who was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. In 1986, she immigrated to the United States to study at Bowling Green University in Ohio. Then moved to Los Angeles and studied at California State University, the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, and the Otis College of Art and Design. Yang also spent a summer studying at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy. Yang’s cross-cultural life and experience is manifest in her paintings. Her narrative paintings combine East and West, old and new, home and adventure, abstract and primitive, reflecting her view of the complexity of being female. Yang describes her process as a form of meditation, where creativity takes precedence over the subject. Her work frequently reference feelings associated with childhood innocence and urges for security, protection and love. Yang’s work is universal in spirit yet personally intimate. Today, Yang is an internationally recognized painter exhibiting regularly throughout Europe and Canada, as well as across the US.

IN HER OWN WORDS

In describing her works, Yang resists the temptation to speak in a detached artistic voice, and rather finds solace in an old Japanese saying: “Isogaba Maware” (I am being squandered) a reminder that she should consider taking a longer route, or more time, especially when we are in a hurry