{"id":1979,"date":"2015-08-19T10:12:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T14:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2017-04-06T10:35:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T14:35:53","slug":"yoichiro-yoda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/yoichiro-yoda\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoichiro Yoda"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7905\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1979-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/yoichiroyoda.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/yoichiroyoda.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/yoichiroyoda.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1980 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1070084.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"P1070084\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1070084.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1070084.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1070084.jpg?resize=624%2C468&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1070084.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Yoichiro Yoda was born in Kagawa, Japan in 1972. When he was 3months old, he came to New York City where he has lived ever since. Yoichiro\u2019s paintings are based on silent films, film noir, lost memories, and New York City history.\u00a0Yoichiro received a Bachelors in Fine Arts degree from Tyler School of Art in 1995, and received his Masters in Fine Arts degree from Queens College in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Yoichiro prefers to use film sets from various films, real interiors of old 42<sup>nd<\/sup> Street theatres, spliced together with different time periods to create a reinterpreted version of history, as if to reclaim what we have once lost.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in New York City, Yoichiro has witnessed and documented the horrific demolition of historic theatres and old time businesses on 42<sup>nd<\/sup> Street. He has created in addition to his paintings, documentary films, \u201cLast Days of 42<sup>nd<\/sup> Street\u201d, \u201cLast Days of Hotel Pennsylvania\u201d, and \u201cLast Days of Coney Island\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In his paintings, Yoichiro feels it is important to make the backgrounds look as fake as possible, to get away from the normal everyday reality (which has become more phony and \u201cset like\u2019 during the last 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Yoichiro also has a number of \u201cseries\u201d paintings, where he uses a single film, such as \u201cThe Shining\u201d and \u201cThe Great Gatsby\u201d. In these series paintings, Yoichiro has altered the backgrounds of the existing sets in the film and replaced them with sites that often appear in his paintings, like Hotel Pennsylvania, and Lynnewood Hall, an old decaying mansion of the Gilded Age near Tyler School of Art.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Yoichiro was accepted to participate in the 2016 Setouchi Triennale, an arts festival in Kagawa Prefecture, Kagawa Japan, which began in 2010 as a way to revitalize, restore and bring back to life the islands of the Seto Inland Sea with art. Yoichiro\u2019s project is to create a movie theatre based on several 42<sup>nd<\/sup> Street theatres (that no longer exist today) on Megi Jima, or Megi Island. He plans to paint the interiors with the names of all the historic theatres and businesses that were lost on 42<sup>nd<\/sup> Street on the theatre\u2019s walls, then hang many 24\u201d x 20\u201d portrait paintings of various film stars, including Charlie Chaplin, Robert Ryan, Clara Bow, and Carey Mulligan. He also plans to screen \u201cLast Days of 42<sup>nd<\/sup> Street\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Yoichiro\u2019s next show will be a group exhibition called \u201cArt of Giving\u201d curated by Samm Cohen, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithandjonesart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smith &amp; Jones, opening on August 26, 2015<\/a>\u00a0For more info about Yoichiro Yoda and Setouchi Triennale, please use the following links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yoichiroyoda.com\">www.yoichiroyoda.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.setouchi-artfest.jp\/en\/about\">http:\/\/www.setouchi-artfest.jp\/en\/about<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1981\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1981\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1981 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/theatre_paintings_01.jpg?resize=625%2C534&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"theatre_paintings_01\" width=\"625\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/theatre_paintings_01.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/theatre_paintings_01.jpg?resize=300%2C256&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/theatre_paintings_01.jpg?resize=624%2C533&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Loew&#8217;s Jersey Theatre&#8221; 2014 oil on canvas 72&#8243; x 84&#8243;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1982\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0803.jpg?resize=625%2C465&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"DSC_0803\" width=\"625\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0803.jpg?resize=1024%2C762&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0803.jpg?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0803.jpg?resize=624%2C464&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0803.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drawing for &#8220;Island Theatre Lobby&#8221; 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/yoichiroyoda.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listYoichiro Yoda was born in Kagawa, Japan in 1972. When he was 3months old, he came to New York City where he has lived ever since. 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