In 1978, the 26-year-old Takako Yamaguchi moved to Los Angeles. She was half a world away from her native Okayama, Japan, and she immersed herself in the art movements of the West—the Renaissance, Art Nouveau, and Mexican muralism. She embraced globalism before it was commonplace, and ignored trends. While her peers gravitated to minimalism, Yamaguchi created luscious canvases that reveled in ornamentation and theatrical excess, representing what she once described as “the trash-heap of discarded ideals.” This exhibition is her first museum solo show in her hometown. —Elena Clavarino