MOCA Focus: Takako Yamaguchi, the artist's first solo museum show in Los Angeles, will open on June 29, accompanied by her first publication. Her imagery derives from multiple sources across time and geography, including Art Deco ornamentation, kimono designs, Japanese screen painting, and twentieth-century photographs of the female nude. Whether painting stylized seascapes or zoomed-in self-portraits, she favors an exacting, labor-intensive approach that honors the inefficiency of meticulous care. In late April, she joined Leah Ollman on the New Social Environment (#1217) for a conversation about process, appropriation, and her wry deviation from the trends of any given moment.