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Botanical Abstractions, #8

Artist: Miyoshi, Kimiko

Date: 2014

Medium: Ink on paper

Artwork Dimensions: 16 x 12 in.

County Department: Mental Health

Artwork Site: Long Beach Mental Health Center

Supervisorial District: 4

Location Status: Portable

About the Artwork:

The renovated facility for the Long Beach Mental Health Center serves over 4,000 clients annually ranging from children, adolescents, families and adults to provide psychiatric, early intervention and clinical services. To further promote the Department of Mental Health’s mission statement of “hope, recovery and well-being,” the LA County Department of Arts and Culture's Civic Art Program developed a curatorial approach that focuses on artworks that provide warmth, contribute to the healing process and reduce stress. The 18 works in the collection are by local artists, with an emphasis on abstract work evoking the California landscape and include artists Betsy Lohrer Hall, Brian Hollister, Margaret Lazzari, Kimiko Miyoshi, Leo Rivas and Ashley Shumaker.

About the Artist:

Kimiko Miyoshi teaches printmaking at California State University, Long Beach. She began her printmaking career under the tutelage of a master silkscreen printer in Japan, then studied Printmaking at the University of NM, where she received her MFA. After graduating, she built scientific exhibitions for a Science Center in Albuquerque. The work had a great effect on her creative practice and observational habit. The focus of Miyoshi’s work is to provoke curiosity and transform insignificant objects or mundane phenomena into seductive works of art. To learn more, please visit: www.kimikomiyoshi.com.