3 Yodas

About

In his paintings of disappearing historic New York City landmarks such as Hotel Pennsylvania, Yoichiro Yoda explores the theme of extreme loneliness that can happen in a big city.

Traditionally, he uses figures from various movies from the silent and film noir eras, girls that he likes, or muses both real and imaginary in what he sees as his own play or movie.

Yoichiro worked as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 10 years. For this exhibition, Yoichiro will present works from his Met Guard Series which he began 9 years after leaving the museum.

The works feature coworkers both real and imaginary as well as various galleries inside the museum.

For this series, Yoichiro wanted to not only include the galleries of the museum, but to put the focus on the security guards as a theme.