beautiful bizarre Interviews artist nanaco yashiro

Beautiful Bizarre, the art magazine, web and social media network, featured an exclusive interview with Japanese artist Nanaco Yashiro ahead of the artist's first solo exhibition in the United States this summer.

In "Bittersweet Refuge: An Interview with Nanaco Yashiro, Painter of Nostalgic Dreamscapes," Beautiful Bizarre's Elizah Leigh discusses fantasy worlds, fairy tale imagery, supersaturated color, William Morris patterns and art's power to inspire hope with Nanaco Yashiro.

​Check out the interview on the magazine's website here (with Nanaco Yashiro's remarks translated by Paper Crane's Erica Williams). And be sure to take a look at Wonderland: The Art of Nanaco Yashiro (PIE International), the first complete collection of the artist's work.    

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