Takako Yamaguchi (born 1952, Okayama, Japan) is a visual artist based in Los Angeles, California.
Born in Okayama, Japan, Takako Yamaguchi has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 1978.
[1][2][3] Decoration, fashion, beauty, sentimentality, empathy, and pleasure–forms and styles displaced by modernism and the contemporary artistic zeitgeist, are central aspects of Yamaguchi's painting practice.
[1][2][5] Her syncretic approach challenges the binary of an ostensibly race-neutral kind of International Modernism and the aesthetics of local, national and ethnic identity.
She calls "abstraction in reverse", incorporating patterns such as clouds and waves but in a way that is expressed through an artist's vision and not with nature itself.