Minako Yoshino is a Japanese artist based in NYC. She is a painter and sculptor, working in oil, mixed media and marble in the traditional and contemporary styles. Through her artwork, Ms.Yoshino portrays natural forces moving seamlessly between the personal realm and the universal. She attempts to convey a sense of complete and simple acceptance of our connectedness and identification with all things in the universe.
Ms.Yoshino has shown her work both in the US and internationally, and is endeavoring to reach a greater audience with whom to share her vision of peace and universal connectedness. Yoshino is the recipient of several art awards, including the National Sculpture Society's Scholarship for Best Young Artist 2004. She also showed her 7 ft painting and poem, "The Earth and Humanity" at the Earth Society annual award show in the United Nations plaza hotel in NYC 2005.