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Cj*Ti«ning her talents as a painter with her cutting-edge interior design allows Yuki Northington the opportunity to make dramatic visual c i **nirations to the post-Katrina Gulf Coast. Her bold use of color and coastal t^rrTM ^ have broad appeal making her work a perfect choice for the 2007 E3ridge Fest posters.
ifc-r 2007 poster was a sell-out success. “The artwork for the Bridge jirint for 2007 was inspired by the renewal of our area. Our entire <t«itfnunity was so happy to see the cranes and construction and know *kti »*ir bridge and the link to the entire Gulf Coast was coming back.”
' T1 k- artwork for the 2008 Bridge Fest print was inspired by the beauty of **- tindge at night. This year the cranes and construction trucks are gone .**1 the artwork has been installed. 1 painted the bridge from the view «:! of the Yacht Club, where Bridge Fest is being held. It is a welcoming li.tifway to our community night and day.”
>uki holds degrees in Fine Arts from the University of Missouri-Columbia .*** in Interior Design from the University of Northern Iowa. Yuki has art i filiations in California, Iowa, Washington, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Mississippi. She creates her original work on 'A” MDF board that is textured jtainted.
Viki’s home and business were destroyed in Katrina but she has reopened ART & INTERIORS in Bay St. Louis and happily resides in Waveland with her husband, “three crazy kids and three very bad dogs.”
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"i believe that our relaxed lifestyle contributes to the creative freedom artists n our community experience. The storm took ciway the fear of failure for me as an artist. 1 lost everything in Katrina and life is still good.”