League at Large: Seonyoung Kim, Akiko Yamamoto, Guada Angela Cruz

This ongoing partnership between Nordstrom Local and League at Large features works by League students Seonyoung Kim, Akiko Yamamoto, and Guada Angela Cruz. 

League at Large is a program that showcases the work of League artists in public venues outside of the League in order to increase exposure to and appreciation of their work. In this partnership, League at Large will be presenting the work of League artists at various Nordstrom Local locations throughout the city.

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Seon Young Kim was born in Taeback, South Korea andcurrently works and resides in New York. She has been studying and working as a monitor for Sharon Sprung at the National Academy and the Art Students League since 2010. She received her BFA in Fine Art at the Hansung University and completed a four-year certificate program at the National Academy. Kim has exhibited in solo shows at 312 Gallery and Alex Adam Gallery, NY and has been included in various group exhibitions. Her work evokes a realistic, balanced and enhanced by an abstract background and modernist color palette.

Akiko Yamamoto is an artist and designer, born in Yamanashi and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Yamamoto received her BA in Art History and Visual Arts from Rutgers University. She began her career as a graphic designer and painted to express her own vision of unconstrained artistic freedom. In her work, Yamamoto has developed a language of deconstructed shapes and vivid color that posits memories, ancestors, and spaces as iconographic forms. Her compositions create mind maps of time and experience.

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Guada Angela Cruz was born and raised in the Philippines. At 26, she was accepted into the National Academy, despite lacking any previous experience or academic practice in Fine Arts, and began her journey to becoming an artist. She moved on to the Art Students League where she continues to take classes to widen her horizons and practice other mediums such and printmaking and sculpting. Cruz believes that when one is honest with their approach and interpretation of their muse, their best work transpires. She does her best to maintain humility, integrity, and mostly honesty in representing nature through her tools: the canvas, paint, and brush.

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