Visiting Atsuko Yamashita’s Studio
We visited the studio of Atsuko Yamashita — the shared studio “studio MOKAH.”
studio MOKAH is a collective studio run by six artists: Aki Moriyama, Shun Kokue, Akira Kubo, Hiyori Ito, Kei Jo, and Atsuko Yamashita.
The writer, along with a fellow collector and a gallerist — the three of us — visited in mid-March 2019, when a slight chill still lingered in the air.
The No. 150 painting she was working on that day will be unveiled at her solo exhibition “HER” in November 2019.
* The visit took place in March 2019.
The two-story house was shared among the members. Atsuko Yamashita seems to love painting from the bottom of her heart, and she was pouring herself wholeheartedly into her work as she faced the canvas.
The studio was filled with the rich, dense scent of oil paint.
