This simple gesture not only reintroduces «the hand» into the formula, but it as well, returns the idea of abstraction to the cultural sources that it was once taken from: Non-Western visual traditions of Native America, Africa, India, Mexico and South America.» (artspace.com)
Through ceramics, Leigh references vernacular visual traditions from the Caribbean, the American South, and the African continent, as well as the black diasporic experience dating from the Middle Passage to the present. (hammer.ucla.edu)
Informed by elements of popular culture ranging from manga and anime to punk rock, Yoshitomo Nara fuses Japanese visual traditions and Western Modernism to create adorable but menacing characters that possess a startling emotional intensity. (artrepublic.com)