From an industrial park in Silicon Valley, Yoko Kubrick is summoning gods and monsters. When the door of her large, nondescript unit is rolled up, a world of beauty reveals itself: The sculptor makes monumental bronze and marble works—nine-foot-tall sculptures full of quiet surprises and subtle, erotic references to plant life and the ocean. Born to a Japanese mother and Czechoslovakian father in the US territory of Guam, Kubrick grew up moving between Guam, Hawaii and San Francisco, spending summers with her grandparents in what is now Czechia. Sitting in a workspace overflowing with carving tools, small plaster studies and stacks of art and philosophy books, she credits her early inspiration to Hawaii: “There’s Indigenous sculpture everywhere, and the way the teachers in school talked about the mythology behind them was to tell This story is from Kinfolk Issue Forty-Six Buy Now Related Stories Arts & Culture Issue 51 Emily Gernild The Danish painter breathing new life into an old medium. Arts & Culture Food Issue 51 Imogen Kwok The artist takes food styling quite literally, creating accessories out of fruits and vegetables. Arts & Culture Issue 49 Karin Mamma Andersson Inside the moody, mysterious world of Sweden’s preeminent painter. Arts & Culture Issue 49 Amalie Smith The Danish arts writer finding clarity between the lines. Arts & Culture Issue 49 Studio Visit: Heidi Gustafson A cabin in the Cascade Mountains houses a hermetic artist—and her extraordinary world of natural pigments. Arts & Culture Issue 48 Jordan Casteel The acclaimed painter of people—and now plants.
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