Education

BFA in Illustration with distinction Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California 1996

BFA in Painting, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 1992

Honolulu Community College, Honolulu, Hawaii Associates in Science 1989

Awards

1993-1996 On scholarship Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Exhibitions

2006 Holiday Group Show, A Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

2005 Holiday Group Show, A Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

2004 Holiday Group Show, A Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

2002 Industrial Evolution (two-man show) MJW Fine Art, Balboa Island, CA

2001 Annual Balboa Island Show (group show) MJW Fine Art, Balboa Island, CA

2001 Inside/Outside (group show) MJW Fine Art, Balboa Island, CA

2001 Volcanic Mass (group show) Santa Monica Studios, Santa Monica, CA

Associations

Motion Picture Screen Cartoonist Union Local 839, Los Angeles, CA

Publications

Southwest Art Magazine, Collector’s Choice 2006

Artist Statement

The wide-angled compositions originated, for me, in the early 1990s as a sarcastic attempt to capture the then trend of cropped, panoramic photography and film developing. The panoramic format stuck as I continued in my interest for urbanscape paintings, in which it eventually and suitably evoked the subject of population sprawl and mass-communities that I was after.

My work is about the industrial mundane, the urbanized deserts and the metropolis serenity. It is very interesting, to me, to witness the ironies of mobilization and stillness interlaced within highly developed and overcrowded cities. My ideas are implications and hints of alienation vs. congregation that occurs at a particular point in time, in very specific locations. It is not urban development itself that I am inevitably drawn to, but rather to the paradoxes of every human meeting and isolation in the midst of urban development. It is about transportation. It is about transactions. It is about epiphanies. These negative spaces and positive cultural icons evoke so much activity within my memory, becoming abstractions and reminiscences that are so intriguing!

My greatest influence comes from Willem de Kooning, Chuck Close and Antonio Tapies.

Donald Yatomi
2006

Influences

Chuck Close, Antonio Tapies, Claude Monet, Willem de Kooning, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Paul Gauguin, Elmer Bischoff, Nathan Oliveira

Contemporary Inspirations

Dan McCaw, Francis Livingston, Ann Gale, Richard Bunkall, Ray Turner, Tessa Mecham

Links

http://tanghengart.com
http://www.armandbaltazar.com
http://www.paqart.com
http://www.liashkovart.com
http://www.braddurham.com/work.html