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Ray YoshidaWW-1999-138663

1999·Collage of printed comic book pages, cut and pasted onto tan wove paper·43.4 × 33.3 cm (17 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.)

<p>Yoshida taught for four decades at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, influencing generations of artists. He collected comic book clippings— obsessively organizing them by shape, gesture, and sign—and used them to create unique collages. Yoshida methodically arranged his cutouts in a grid, playing with pattern and forms. A renowned collector of popular art and found objects, he believed comics were a form of folk art, a genre for which he had great respect.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1999
Medium: Collage of printed comic book pages, cut and pasted onto tan wove paper
Dimensions: 43.4 × 33.3 cm (17 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Ray Yoshida

Artist

Ray Yoshida

Painting

Raymond "Ray" Kakuo Yoshida was an American artist known for his paintings and collages, and for his contributions as a teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1959 to 2005. He was an important mentor of the Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who specialized in distorted, emotional representational art.

Kapaa, HI, USA

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