If you are in the mood of getting lost travelling through some psychedelic Art trip to discover a world inhabited by creatures that you have certainly never seen before in real life, then for sure you will find the perfect Artist in Hannah Yata, and the simple trick is that your ticket is for free, you just have to stand in front of her big scale oil paintings and the journey will begin before your eyes.
This half Japanese artist, was born in 1989 in a small town in Atlanta-Georgia, USA, and from 2012, as soon as she graduated from Art College, she moved to New York where she currently lives. As a young artist, she has quickly made a name for herself within the New Contemporary Art scene. Her work has been already exhibited throughout USA in renowned galleries such as Copro Gallery, AFA Gallery, Corey Helford Gallery, Modern Eden Gallery, Arch Enemy Art and many more.
Her work is a phantasmagoria of hybrid living beings inspired by her own psychology studies, by the feminist literature, by the beautiful landscape where she geographically grew up and by her own experiences as a woman.
Themes concerning the animal kingdom and the natural world predominate in her paintings; Yata seeks the meeting point between the unconscious and the existing in a body female form, surrounded by the natural environment. The special feature in her representations consists in the total absence of human faces where masks take the place of real heads of nude figures, expressing different types of emotion and characters, and incorporating her fascination with culture and tribalism. Her works express the powerful idea of getting more in touch with the earth and with life forces as well as celebrating the feeling of energy and wildness. The surreal dreamscapes of her work creates feelings of tension and visions of pure beauty through her vibrant candy palette.
She said:- “The pictures forming in my head are ones of domination over nature, the struggle of animals in a changing world, and the effects of a changing world on animals and humans. Women became the metaphor for mother nature as wild and sexual thing, exploited and explored in my work, and animals became the subjects of examining abnormalities and evolution. Taking ideas that I had learned from ideas on feminism, I began to draw parallels in our ways of controlling and objectifying women to how we also think about the earth and its resources therein.”
Sphynx, Barong, Piranhas, Golden fish, and many other extraterrestrial visions take the prevailing place up to the dynamic undressed bodies, and you really can be kidnapped by the million of hypnagogic details she builds in her glowing scenario. Yata is married with another established amazing Artist from Ecuador, Jean Pierre Arboleda. She is currently out with her solo exhibition “daughters at the edge of the garden” to Allouche Gallery in New York City from November 18th till December 12th. Don’t miss the chance to see live her mesmerizing artwork.
