Chie Yasuda

Chie Yasuda’s work is improvisational, creating a visual mixture of harmonies through a variety of media, including ink, colored pencil, oil pastel and Japanese pigments.  Like an improvisation, Yasuda’s work is process-oriented. She is driven by her fascination with interactions between water, paint and paper.  The result is a kind of whimsical “dialogue” between artist and paint.

 The beauty and deep complexity of the world fascinate Yasuda.  She seeks to illuminate the beauty of everyday life in her work, first by paying careful attention to how very interesting one can find even the most banal things when one seeks a deeper understanding of their existence.  For example, her “Supernova” series is inspired by the question “Where does life begin?”  This has led her to research the births and deaths of stars, how “star stuff” allowed life to develop and supernovae as the distant and fundamental origins of the human species.  In Yasuda’s art, human joy is a jubilation that mirrors its origins in an exploding star.  The awareness of the beauty of the cosmos mirrored in the beauty within human beings made of stardust is a common philosophical thread in her Art.   

 Yasuda lives in Somerville, Mass., with her husband and son, where she is active in the local arts society.  She regularly participates in the Somerville Open Studios program. In 2015 Yasuda’s art peace was selected by City of Boston’s special show for Emerging Artists. 

Chie Yasuda's Work

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