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Bruce Yonemoto and Norman Yonemoto are two Los Angeles, California -based video / installation artists of Japanese American heritage. Family background and birth. Bruce and Norman Yonemoto's family was among the 120,000 incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II.
Mar 3, 2014 · NORMAN YONEMOTO, A LOS ANGELES ARTIST who along with his younger brother, Bruce, created innovative video installations that often explored mass media, Hollywood and other forms of pop culture, has died. He was 67. Yonemoto died Friday at his home in Venice.
Oct 26, 2022 · Satirizing 1980s Los Angeles and the city’s burgeoning art scene, Green Card betrays the Yonemotos’ fascination with the melodramatic clichés of American soap operas and the films of Douglas Sirk, drawing on the vernacular of Southern California’s entertainment industry.
Mar 4, 2014 · Norman Yonemoto, a Los Angeles artist who along with his younger brother, Bruce, created innovative video installations that often explored mass media, Hollywood and other forms of pop culture,...
California-based artists Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, brothers who produced a body of collaborative videos beginning in 1976, deconstruct and rewrite the hyperbolic vernacular with which the mass media constructs cultural mythologies.
What the Yonemotos' videos effectively illustrate is how the televised representation of the world becomes the model for living, with individuals not only copying the fashions, gestures, and dialogue of TV characters, but using the situational patterns of TV as the way to understand their life.
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Jan 22, 2017 · Beginning in the mid-1970s, Japanese-American brothers Bruce Yonemoto and the late Norman Yonemoto produced a body of work that played a central role in establishing video as a viable artistic medium.
