Living Too Long With A Single Dream

Yoichiro Yoda is a contemporary artist born in Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture in 1972 to artist parents, who were active in New York. Yoda, who moved to New York three months after birth and received his masters from Queens College in 1998, is now energetically working in Japan and the United States and has participated in numerous exhibitions mainly in New York and Tokyo.
Yoda has created paintings with scenery of Manhattan, where his life is based, and films as motifs. Yoda imbued the images with his complex feelings and thoughts about the receding scenery familiar to him. As the title Living Too Long With A Single Dream (The Great Gatsby) suggests, the theme of the work is the world of the 1974 film “The Great Gatsby.” However, with Yoda’s friends drawn, the painting has its own story, which is different from the film.