Luminosity : Sandra Yagi | Poetry of Light

Oil on Panel, 16 x 16

ARTIST STATEMENT

Bioluminescence has practical uses in various living organisms, for purposes such as finding mates, communication and obtaining food. But for humans, we find delight in the glow of fireflies, plankton and other creatures. The logical side of me says that beauty in the natural world is just a product of evolution, but the artist side of me says that there is an innate sense of beauty and aesthetics in the natural world. 

BIO

Sandra Yagi is an artist living and working in San Francisco, California USA. She was raised in Denver, Colorado, and from an early age loved science and art. She worked in the corporate world, where she spent 27 years at major financial institutions. However, due to the pent-up need to create, she took up drawing and painting again at age 32, while still working in finance. She left the corporate life in 2008 and became a full time artist. Her works are in numerous private collections, including those of Axl Rose, Ben Stiller, Paul Ruscha, and film director Lee Unkrich, and she has shown nationally and internationally.  Her works are shown at Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, IL, and Modern Eden, San Francisco., CA