

Holly Yoshida, Rose Stems after Adriaen Coorte – Still life with Asparagus, 2020. Oil on board, 40.5 x 51cm. Courtesy: the artist and Moore Contemporary, .
Holly Yoshida is welcomed to Moore Contemporary with a solo exhibition featuring a series of recent paintings comprising still life and interiors.
Yoshida navigates a distinctive path as a contemporary painter. She is enamoured with historical painting, choosing to work in dry brushed oil on panel, sometimes employing a grisaille technique, yet she documents and quietly elevates present day mundanity. Her interiors might draw upon screen grabs from our daily life steeped in social media. A networking page for rental accommodation is just one form of fodder from which she has sourced imagery. In her hands banality meets a certain ethereal beauty. The ordinary is imbued with oneiric atmospherics that both charm and unsettle. The absences and neutrality invite a speculative and voyeuristic gaze, in which we might construct or impose narrative.
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