An abstract painter who became known in the early ’80s for her large-scale, gestural paintings on unorthodox surfaces such as vinyl and aluminum, Mika Yoshizawa has continued to refine her vocabulary with an uncommon singularity of purpose, seemingly impervious to the vagaries of the art world. She remains an autographic artist, for whom delicate touch and meditative process are the keys to content. Hers is an art of solitude, of focused and incremental (though not systematic) investigation, about the search for form and the bestowing of meaning through that search.

From the outset, Yoshizawa