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SANDRA YAGI
I was raised in suburban Denver Colorado, the oldest in a
typical suburban middle class family. I started drawing around four years
of age on any material I could find, including the cover pages of my
mother’s Buddhist prayer book. From that point forward, drawing and
painting became my passions.
My parents were always very concerned about monetary and domestic
stability, a result of their internment with other Japanese Americans
during WWII. They instilled in me the ethics of getting a “useful”
education, such as business, engineering or science.
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In my twenties, I put aside my studies in art, and instead,
got my Masters in Business Administration and stepped up on the corporate
treadmill. However, over the years, I realized that I was meant to do art,
so at age 34 took up painting again.
Living in California during the last fifteen years, I have
been able to pursue my passion for painting. The creative and eclectic
climate in San Francisco is a catalyst for bringing about the current
direction of my work. Through my art, I have realized that there are some
questions that can really matter. Such as, what is evil? Is it an inherent
part of the human condition? Art is my vehicle to explore those questions,
even if the likelihood of a concrete answer is very remote.
I often look to the following artists for inspiration: Titian, Caravaggio,
Delacroix, Goya, Jerome Witkin, Bill Viola, Annette Messager, Masami Teraoka
and William Kentridge
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