A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...The exhibition marks the artist’s first solo museum presentation in her adopted hometown of Los Angeles. It features ten recent paintings from her Seascapes series. For more than forty years, Yamaguchi (b. 1952, Okayama, Japan; lives in Santa Monica, California) has prized decoration, beauty, and fashion—values often excluded from serious consideration in contemporary art history and criticism.
Coming of age as a painter in the 1970s, when the mainstream art world rewarded the austerity of Minimalism and severity of hard-edge abstraction, Yamaguchi took the opposite tack by embracing sentimentality and pleasure. She has reflected that her appreciation for aesthetic ideals that have been abandoned or deemed minor relates to her subject position as an outsider. Though born and raised in Japan, Yamaguchi’s art education and career have transpired in the United States..."
