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This stunning volume features over a decade's worth of Chie Yoshii's vibrant and entrancing oil paintings. Dreams is the first book-length retrospective of Chie Yoshii's work, written in both English and her native Japanese. With over 100 paintings, additional enlarged details, drawings, and accompanying essays, this comprehensive 200 page book invites you into a mysterious sanctuary composed of delicate brushstrokes, luminous characters, and sumptuous, jewel-like colors. Combining technique reminiscent of the old masters with a modern sensibility, Chie Yoshii creates a singular world of collective dreams. Inspired by the relationship between human psychology and mythical archetypes, she weaves enduring themes into complex symbolic and surreal visual narratives. Her enigmatic images embody contrasting elements such as novelty and nostalgia, innocence and sensuality, and strength and fragility, mirroring the intricacy of the psyche. In her opulent oil paintings, characters seem to peer into the very depths of one's soul.

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""Chie Yoshii's paintings have a quiet power. Her delicate figures emerge out of a mysterious darkness with ethereal beauty."" - Mark Ryden ""I love the way the inspiration of the Renaissance permeates Yoshii's work. Her explorations of the divine feminine are very beautiful..."" - Marion Peck Chie Yoshii's lush landscapes, glowing creatures and haunted, dreamy visions are a welcome refuge for the weary aesthetic traveller. This is a book you can escape into with wild abandon."" - Camille Rose Garcia

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Chie Yoshii was born in Kochi, Japan in 1974. She moved to the United States to complete her BFA at Massachusetts College of Art in 2000. Her work has been exhibited in many galleries worldwide, including Dorothy Circus Gallery in Italy, Urban Nation in Germany, Gallery Bern Art in Japan, and William Baczek Fine Arts in the United States. Taking inspiration from the relationship between human psychology and mythical archetypes, she paints complex symbolic and surreal visual narratives. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

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