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| The President of Arts Manhattan, Homeira Goldstein, poses with Artist Yoshio Ikezaki and his wife at the Soiree presented by Arts Manhattan. Photo by Ginger Van Hook©2012 Homeira and Arnold Goldstein along with additional major sponsors hosted this artist conversation at their home in Manhattan Beach, California on November 13, 2012. Formed in 1989, ARTS Manhattan is a non-profit privately funded art educational organization with the mission to enhance cultural art awareness in Manhattan Beach the greater South Bay by bringing art to the community through Exhibitions, Soirees, Tours, and Workshops. |
During a distinguished Soiree hosted at the home of Homeira and Arnold Goldstein,
Yoshio Ikezaki revealed his love for the traditional and intense processes of paper making, painting Japanese pine trees in a unique style he himself developed and the relevance of cultivating a character of justice and ambition in the arts. In his youth and right out of school, Yoshio Ikezaki loaded his car with his paintings and recounted a story of traveling in the United States from one coast to another and when he had completed this journey, he boasted that he had obtained the representation of sixty galleries that would carry his work!
During the audience Q & A session, Ikezaki answered questions about the Japanese recovery after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis that ensued. Yoshio Ikesaki stated that the arts in that area were deeply hurt and the pine forest had been decimated. At the very edge of the destruction, however, Ikezaki recounts how one very tall lonely pine tree remains and now the myths and legends surround the endurance of this one tree creating hope in an area hard hit by tragedy, thus giving the citizens optimism for their future reconstruction.
During the audience Q & A session, Ikezaki answered questions about the Japanese recovery after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis that ensued. Yoshio Ikesaki stated that the arts in that area were deeply hurt and the pine forest had been decimated. At the very edge of the destruction, however, Ikezaki recounts how one very tall lonely pine tree remains and now the myths and legends surround the endurance of this one tree creating hope in an area hard hit by tragedy, thus giving the citizens optimism for their future reconstruction.
Currently the work of Yoshio Ikezaki "Pines of Hope" is exhibited and represented by the Heather James Gallery in Palm Desert, California.
