Yuriko Kubota

Exhibition opening: August 30, 2007 6-9pm. Artist will be in attendance

PIKTO opens a new exhibition of Yuriko Kubota, Recent Works

Presently, Kubota is working with layering and cutting photographs in order to explore the ambiguous space between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional object. Kubota places two photographs on top of each other; the image on top has been manually cut into with a utility knife removing ¼ inch strips to reveal the image below. This merging of two images creates an uncertainly in the planes and in the medium of photography itself, crossing over into the realm of sculpture. Kubota's painstaking and time consuming process of cutting the photographs results in images that point as much to the deliberate absence of what is cut away to the presence of what is left behind.

Kubota uses photography as a tool to study and reconfirm her thoughts as well as record what she feels in her journey through life. Kubota studied oil painting at Joshibi University of Art and Design in Tokyo, Japan. Following her studies, she started to experiment with photography as an extension of her painting and found different and exciting possibilities in photography. This exhibition is a result of these explorations.

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The Distillery District
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Toronto ON M5A 3C4
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