ARTIST

YUKA NUMATA

The impetus for Ishiyama’s painting process comes from listening to music. She goes searching on the internet for musicians whom she is not even sure exist, and when she finds them, she listens to them over and over. As if possessed by their presence, she commits images that have a sense of life to canvas. By painting these images with the most basic of techniques, she expands her own unique painting universe, in which her personal encounters and experiences are assimilated into the act of painting.