“My creatures are my dear darlings”
LY is a Tokyo artist born and bred, and in her art, she depicts her beloved city through the prism of her imagination. Her painting, drawing and sculpture muse on modern life in a neo-pop, Superflat style. And there is one main character at the centre of it all, LUV. The black and white endearing creature appears in different settings, from cityscapes to lush forests, all depicted with hard-edged planes of colour. Through LUV, LY also tells personal anecdotes to document broader cultural trends and histories. The painting The Skate Shop in the Woods (2020), for example, shows a quintessential...
Bio
LY was born in in 1981 in Tokyo, Japan, where she continues to live and work.
Did you know?
In her black and white works, each painting can include as many as 30 individually-mixed shades of grey - carefully composed as a series of sharp-edged solids.
Career
Bringing LUV to the masses, the artist's paintings have also been realised as public murals in Japan, France, Thailand, Malaysia and the US.
