Yoshio Ikezaki was born in Japan and active in Los Angeles since 1986. He earned BA and MFA from Florida State University. He is an internationally exhibited visual artist and taught as a professor of ACCD and SCI-ARC. He is a master Sumi ink painter and a master papermaker of Japanese tradition. His paintings and sculptures are grounded in Japanese aesthetic principles and philosophy, crafts and materials, interpreted in a contemporary context. His work expresses the profound power and vulnerability of nature in its relationship to humanity, thus illuminating the deeper meaning of the contemporary global environmental crisis.