Jave Yoshimoto: "Modicum of Candor" Artist Talk & Reception

• Arts & Crafts
• Motivational Speakers

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The College of Southern Nevada, Department of Fine Arts will host an Artist Talk on Thursday, March 5, 2020, at 6 p.m. in room H207, on the CSN North Las Vegas Campus. A Preview and Opening Reception with refreshments will follow the Artist Talk in the CSN Fine Arts Gallery, Room H101, also on the CSN North Las Vegas Campus. These events are in conjunction with an exhibition of relief sculpture and works on paper by Japanese born Chinese American artist and University of Nebraska at Omaha assistant professor of arts and foundations coordinator, Jave Yoshimoto. Jave Yoshimoto: "Modicum of Candor" will run through Saturday, May 2, 2020. Jave Gakumei Yoshimoto received his Bachelors of Art from University of California Santa Barbara in Studio Art, his Post-baccalaureate Certificate in Painting and Drawing and Masters of Art in Art Therapy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and his Masters of Fine Arts in Painting at Syracuse University. He is a recipient of the 2015 Joan Mitchell Foundations Painters and Sculptors grant and has been featured in numerous publications such as the Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, New American Paintings, Guernica Magazine, among others. Yoshimoto received a letter of recognition from the United Nations, and has exhibited his works nationally and internationally. Speaking of his artwork, Yoshimoto says; We live in a digital information age where the daily news cycle sweeps away the waves of information that floods the media and our screens. With masses of migration happening around the globe in recent years, we have become desensitized to the tragedy and have started to forget these daily calamities. I address this social amnesia through my works, with each piece acting as a social memory, a snapshot, to these tragic events so quickly forgotten in todays technological age. I employ various images of the overwhelming power of manmade and natural disasters to inspire empathy in my viewers. The migrants and survivors represented in my works are similar to anyone else; human beings with desire for a better life. These displaced people long for a home, a purpose, and a dream. I utilize my compositions to retell the strengths and struggles in their journeys. It is my belief that art should be accessible and relatable to its viewers through the humanist tales of struggle and survival played out in the prevalent social amnesia of the information age. The CSN Fine Arts Gallery is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are from 9 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The Fine Arts Gallery is located at the half circle drive near CSNs main entrance, on the North Las Vegas campus at 3200 E. Cheyenne Avenue, one-mile East of I-15 North.