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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune ARTS Sunday, Yamashita A Masterof Light, Shadow @ Continued from D-1 limited by what hesees. Plato asks, how do we know whatis real? Yamashita questions people's easy assumptions as they “see” new things. Her art reminds the viewer ofthe relativity of knowledge. Plus, it’s fun. In 1997 she commented,“I like lookingat the lightin the afternoon and watching the shadows move. It reminds me that everything is always changing. I like the things ber 1, 1998 peopleof how we preconceive what notes she says, “Humans are too unpredictable and marvelous to be the product of your simple preconceptions.” This experience stimulated her thinking about the distance between appearance and inner meaning, and perhaps pre- wasn't described. Yamashita created her first “light piece” in 1992 andsince that passively turn to prey information. Knowledge, ideas and val- Works by Kumi Yamashita, through Dec. 13, ues are too often accepted without questic ie Yamshita’s conte crayon Street Level Gallery, Salt Lake Art Center, 20 S. West Temple, Salt Lake pared her for the visual explorations she would conduct through her art. She recognized it was impossible to capture the essence of another human beiug with words — language, for her, failed to include what wasn’t spoken, what is aroundand insideus. It is easy to W@S.L. Art Center where line disappears and form moves from a warm terra-cotta conte crayon rubbed ontp the surface through silk images. These“light pieces” are like subtle magic tricks — what onefirst ie paper placed over each sitter's credit card, a sort of iting. Again, not an explicit challenge to what one sees changes, and changes yet again as weare letin on thetrick. knows, the softly modeled forms try to began by usingletters, num- suggest the complexity that lies just beneath the surface. Yamashita said of her work, “I timehas refined her highly individualistic technique. Theinstallation pieces in this show are arrangements of carefully formed objects, bers and shadows toillustrate our tendency to define what we see by ows. Together they form surprising transforming it into something already known. I want to remind sharply angled light, and cast shad- a traits also explore these siaktioce revealing an incongruous softness City. Martha Sonntag Bradley, a Salt Lake City writer, reviews vi- sualarts for The Tribune, that don’t have concrete form,like clouds, water, shadows and the kindness of people.” Born in Japan, Yamashita stud- ied in the United States in 1984 as a foreign-exchange student. She ex- O@OLIDAY TIVAL perienced significant prejudice and misunderstanding, and remembers feeling the unfairness of it. Her response to people’s prejudice rose aboveit. In the program Whichis “real” — exclamation point or question mark? 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