Yoko Kubrick is a Japanese-Czech American sculptor who lives and works between California and Tuscany. She creates site specific and large scale sculptures in marble, granite, bronze, and stainless steel for public spaces, gardens, architectural settings, and private collections.

Her work comes from a love of natural form. She is interested in what a curve, opening, or quiet gesture can hold, and how sculpture can change the feeling of a place. Inspired by water, wind, petals, caves, shells, and landscape, Kubrick creates abstract biomorphic forms that feel rooted in nature while still belonging to the present.

Her sculptures are made to live in conversation with architecture, light, landscape, and the people who move around them. She is drawn to materials that carry history, and she uses marble, granite, and bronze to create works that feel timeless but still contemporary.

Kubrick trained in traditional bronze casting in San Francisco and marble carving in Carrara and Pietrasanta, Italy. Her work ranges from intimate pieces to monumental outdoor sculpture, with a focus on material, proportion, craft, and the feeling a work brings to its site.

Her work has been exhibited at Filoli Historic House and Garden, the San Francisco Decorator Showcase, and is permanently installed at the University of San Francisco. She has been featured in T: The New York Times Style Magazine and Kinfolk.

Artist statement

I am inspired by the raw beauty of the natural world. I’m drawn to forms that feel feminine and expressive. I love working with historically traditional materials and bringing them into a contemporary context.

Using abstract forms, I try to subtly evoke the feeling of a petal, shell, wing, or landscape without becoming literal. I love creating abstract forms because they invite the viewer to use their own memory and intuition to interpret the work.

Buildings and public spaces are often geometric and hard. I use curves and organic shapes that evoke softness to counterbalance that energy. My sculptures are meant to be experienced with the whole body and in relation to the landscape. They are meant to be touched, and I think about the feeling you get not only from your eyes, but from your hands as well.

Light, and the way it reflects and changes the feeling of the sculpture throughout the day, is also important to me. I try to use forms that feel timeless, and classical materials that bridge the past and present.

I live and work between California and Tuscany.