Art channeled from Divinity
Artworks are only as powerful and transformational as their creator. Yuko channels the highest frequency of light energy. She serves humanity as a pure vessel allowing Divinity to be manifested through her in form of visual art.
Yuko`s Background
Personal
Yuko Adachi was born in Tokyo, Japan. As a child and teenager she was brought up in New York, Paris and London, exposing her to a variety of cultures. This had undeniably a major impact on her multi-cultural character and world-view. She currently lives in Nosara, Costa Rica, a wellness centric beach community on the pacific coast together with her Swiss artist husband Andreas Gmür and their two children. The family runs three 5-star rated Airbnb studios at their beach property, surrounded by tropical jungle gardens. Come. Stay. Heal. Experience Pura Vida Magic.
Academic
Yuko graduated from Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan) with a bachelors degree in French Literature. While attending Sophia University, Yuko attended an exchange year at George Town University (Washington DC, USA).
She also holds a bachelors degree in fine arts from The Art Institute of Boston (now Lesley University, Boston, USA). While attending The Art Institute of Boston, Yuko attended special classes at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA) as well as at the Massachusetts College of Art (Boston, USA)
Professional - Exhibits
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 "Liebes Leben", Bibliothek Steinhausen, Zug, Switzerland
2011 "Celebration of NOW", Albright Gallery, Concord, MA, USA
2008 "Burst of Colors", Urban Living Studio, Boston, MA ,USA
2007 "Expression; The state of being", Keiko Gallery, Boston MA, USA
2006 "Dance in the bloom", ILEX, Boston, MA, USA
2004 "Messages", Berman Gallery, Watertown, MA, USA
2001 "Healing Art", MIT Kresage Auditorium, Cambridge, MA, USA
TWO PERSONS EXHIBITIONS
2009 "1+1", New England Bio Labs, Ipswich, MA, USA
2008 "Inside Out", Baak Gallery, Cambridge, MA, USA
2006 Red river Trading Company, Boston, MA, USA
2001 "Awakening of the soul", Upstairs at Johnson Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 "Kunst Supermarkt", Solothurn, Switzerland
2015 "Front of Bicycle", Galerie Katapult, Basel, Switzerland
2009 "Vivid wonders of startled imagination', MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA, USA
2009 "Three women", Mayor's Art Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2009 "Home is where art is", The Boston conventional and exhibition center, Boston, MA,USA
2008 "Art fair New Blood Art", The light box, London, UNITED KINGDOM
2008 "Flag", Lamarong Gallery, Huhhot, CHINA
2008 "Hit the deck SXSW', Austin , TX, USA
2008 "Hit the deck at WMC", Miami, FL, USA
2008 "Mixed plates plus metal", Venus Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2008 "Future art 2008", The Mills Gallery at the BCA, Boston MA, USA
2007 "Vision", Kathryn Shultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA, USA
2005 "Red", University Place Gallery, Lincoln, MA, USA
2005 Bromfield Art Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2005 "Sound of Painting", Zeitgeist Gallery, Cambridge, MA, USA
2005 "Boston Drawing Project", Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2005 "Cuatro", Mark Gallery, Cambridge, MA, USA
2005 "Contemporary Paintings", Gallery at City Square, Charleston MA, USA
2005 "18th Annual Drawing Show", The Mills Gallery at the BCA, Boston MA, USA
2003 "Gift", Mark Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2003 "Works on paper", South Shore Art Center, Boston, MA, USA
2003 "Individualized", Artspace@16, Malden, MA, USA
2001 "Oppai Art", International Juried Exhibition", Kyoto, JAPAN
2001 "Between Lines", The FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
1999 "Nikaten", Tokyo, Japan
AWARDS, NOMINATIONS, SCHOLARSHIP & GRANTS
2009 Best Public Art, South End News Favorite 2009, South End, Boston, MA,
2009 Fellowship Grant, Vermont Art Center(Cancelled for my health reason), VT, USA
2008 Scholarship, Arts & Business Council Greater Boston, USA
2007 Best in painting, Healing Power of Art, Manhattan Art International, NY, USA
2007 1st Prize, Vernal Escape, Artscope Magazine, Juror: Britta Konau, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Linda Lamberston, The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, C.Laferriere, Artscope Writer
2007 Juror's Choice, "Vision", Juror, Clark Gallery Director, MA, USA
2006 Luminary Pick, The School of Museum of Fine Arts, Juror, Valerie Wilder, Executive director at Boston Ballet, MA, USA
2006 Fellowship Grant, Vermont Art Center, VT, MA, USA
2005 2nd Prize, "Red", Cambridge Art Association, International Competition, Cambridge, MA, USA, Juror, Nick Capasso at Decordova Museum of Arts
2004 2nd Prize, The 18th Annual Exhibition, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, USA
2003 Paul Goodnight Artist Grant, Continuing Education Drawing with Pau; Rahile
1998 Full Scholarship for exchange students program, The School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
1998-2001 Dean's List, The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, MA, USA
1998-2001 Merit Scholarship, The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, MA, USA
1998 Full Scholarship for exchange students program, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
PUBLICATIONS
2019 Aspekte, September issue, p.16, Steinhausen, Switzerland
2010 LIVES, Vol.5,P.56,April/May issue, Daiichi Shuppan, Tokyo
2010 IN RED, P.50,September、Takarajima Shuppan,Tokyo
2010 Takara Magazine, July, August issue, cover art, Boston, MA, USA
2010 Imprevue, The Said and the Unsaid, May, No.2, Boston, MA, USA
2010 The Confident Creative, Cat Bennett, Findhorn press, London, United Kingdom
2009 MCLA Beacon, North Adams, MA, USA
2009 North Adams Transcript, Imagination, North Adams, MA, USA
2009 Berkshire Fine Arts, Vivid wonders at MCLA Galley 51, North Adams, MA, USA
2008 The Metro, Boston, MA, USA
2008 The Berkeley Beacon, Online Article, Boston, MA, USA
2008 SOWA News Letter, Interview, March/April issue, South end Boston, MA, USA
2007 Takara Magazine, Interview, September, Boston, MA, USA
2007 Laconia Gazette News, fall issue, Boston, MA, USA
2007 Artscope, New England’s Culture Magazine, Center Fold, May/June, issues
2007 Takara Magazine, front cover for 2007, 11 issues, Boston, MA, USA
2005 Sampan New Paper, Interview: Speaking with Paint, Boston, MA, USA
2002 J Magazine, July issue, front cover, Boston, MA, USA
2001 J Magazine, October, April issue, front cover, Boston, MA, USA
2001 Boston Globe, City weekly, "Gallery encourages art with a message”, 28th January, Boston, MA, USA
"Yuko´s art carries a lot of healing light codes and harmonizing properties
Yuko is a clear channel for higher energies. Her art is inspired by higher knowledge and carries a lot of healing light codes and harmonizing properties for those beholding it. She opens herself up to receive the art as it wants to come forward for the people who it's meant to be presented to. You can look at her as a "translator". She opens herself up, as a vessel for spirit/inspiration/energy to flow through, which she then processes inside of her and transforms into gorgeous pieces of art carrying light codes which activate the soul, and that have their healing effect and an unlocking of soul knowledge on the people witnessing it. By working like this, she offers people the opportunity to experience the connection that she experiences when fine tuning herself like a tuning fork, to these higher realms. Giving you the opportunity to create a connection of your own, with these beautiful energies, through her visual art. Having her work around you, will cause you to get activated by the lines and colors and shapes she uses, and it will create harmony within, and an awakening to a deep connection inside of you, to the great source of which we all come from."
By Debra Lemaire, Spiritual Mentor, Celestial Historian, Channel
Master Artist
"Yuko`s stunning mastery of color, shapes, forms and composition combined with her sheer insatiable lust to create art across all imaginable mediums make her nothing short of a Master Artist, a pure genius. She deserves to go down history as one of the most important artists to have ever walked this planet" Andreas Gmür, fellow visionary artist
by Marie-Christine Iacopetta, Art historian
Yuko Adachi has a strong signature style that sets her apart and makes her art recognizable and memorable. Her work pushes the boundaries of contemporary art genres as it successfully encompasses both spiritual and abstract elements. Her aim is to create unique forms of non-representational visual expressions imbued with the vibration of deep-rooted energy.
The delicate and sensitive, yet distinctive bold organic movements and forms in her art can be traced back to an early childhood Japanese calligraphy training where creativity and sensibility emerge from the calmness of the mind. Working in series, she harmoniously combines a broad and colorful palette with unique free-flowing organic shapes, unfolding her timeless creative imagination that is possible only when being one with the present moment.
Her spiritual and cross-cultural life experiences from young age have been feeding her innate artistic expressions to be manifested on the visual level with authenticity that speaks directly to viewers across all ages and genders, as each artwork is filled with energy of love for life, the universe and fellow human beings.
Although highly subjective and unique, Yuko Adachi’s approach can be related to other spiritually based creative expressions and to some of the most innovative art historical movements.
Indeed, the Buddhist practice of painting mandalas, is not only the expression of a century-old religious world-view but is also a meditative act for the artist. Traditionally mandalas represent the ideal form of the universe. The mandala not only helps the artist to progress into deeper levels of unconsciousness and to experience the oneness with the cosmos, it also helps the viewer to reflect upon his inner state of the moment. Although using a different visual language, Yuko Adachi’s can be compared to this motion. Her paintings are not representational, they are experienced realities, captured emotions.
Charged with symbolic and spiritual meaning, the great pioneers of abstract art Hilma Af Klint and Wassiliy Kandinsky both created works in which the forms and the colours have deeper meanings. Immersed in theosophy and anthroposophy they painted in bright tones, featuring curlicues, spirals, flower shapes, organic elements. Through their art Af Klint and Kandinsky hoped to enlighten others about their environment and the inherent connections between life at the micro and the macro levels, just like how Yuko Adachi is doing with her art. By further pushing and developing these elements, she manages to create dreamy, powerful and immersive works, which invite us to delve into her mystic world and to broaden our vision of ourselves.