(Seattle, Washington — December 1, 2025)
Emerald Room | Emerald Editions Appointed Exclusive Global Representative for the Fine Art Prints of Teruko Yokoi and Named Estate Partner for Paintings
Emerald Room | Emerald Editions, based in the Seattle metropolitan area, has been appointed the exclusive worldwide representative for the fine art prints of Japanese-Swiss painter Teruko Yokoi (1924–2020) and will serve as an estate partner gallery for her paintings. The gallery will lead the first catalogue raisonné of Yokoi’s paintings, as well as a catalogue raisonné of her prints and editions, with both publications scheduled for release in 2027. This will mark the first gallery representation of Teruko’s Prints in the US since working with the Erica Williams Gallery in Seattle and the Martha Jackson/David Andersen Gallery in New York.
A pioneering voice in postwar abstraction, Teruko Yokoi developed a visual language that merged Japanese calligraphic sensibility with the color harmonies of American abstraction and European modernism. Born in Tsushima, trained in Nagoya, San Francisco and New York, and later established in Paris, Tokyo and Bern, she worked across painting, drawing, and printmaking. Her career included exhibitions at Minami Gallery (Tokyo), Martha Jackson Gallery (New York), Kunsthalle Basel, Kunsthalle Bern and Kunstmuseum Bern among many other galleries and institutions.
Yokoi’s works are held in major public and private institutional collections worldwide, including the Kunstmuseum Bern, the Teruko Yokoi Hinageshi Museum of Art, and the Nara Prefectural Museum of Art. Her print editions have also entered the collections of the University at Buffalo Art Galleries as part of the Martha Jackson archives, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Chase Manhattan Bank, and the Bank of New York (BNY Mellon). Paintings by Yokoi are represented in significant European, Japanese, and American collections, including the Novartis Art Collection.
“Emerald Room was founded to celebrate artists whose work connects cultures and histories,” said Tai Francis Wallace, Founder and Director of Emerald Room | Emerald Editions. “Teruko Yokoi’s art is both poetic and pioneering. It is a privilege to carry forward her legacy through scholarship, curatorial projects, and careful stewardship of her works.”
“Teruko’s work has long deserved the depth of research and visibility now emerging,” added Kayo Malik, daughter of the artist. “This partnership ensures that her vision and spirit will continue to inspire future generations.”
The gallery’s new online platform, emeraldroomgallery.com, launches with an initial series of presentations of Teruko’s work, featuring paintings, rare lithographs, and hand-finished prints by Yokoi alongside archival materials from the Artist’s studios and showings in Tokyo, Basel, Bern, and New York.
Prior to launching Emerald Room | Emerald Editions, Tai Francis Wallace led the strategic direction and management of the Artist’s estate alongside Kayo Malik, assumed a board of trustee position on the Teruko Yokoi Hinageshi Museum board, and collaborated with the owner of the storied Hotel Chelsea and Restaurant Teruko to place multiple works for public display. Additionally, Mr Francis Wallace, under the Emerald Room | Emerald Editions banner, developed the curatorial concept and co-curated the Teruko Yokoi: Noh Theater exhibition that opened in New York earlier this spring.
A continuum presentation of Noh Theater with new works, insights and art historical context is currently on view in the gallery’s inaugural online exhibition viewing room. Teruko Yokoi: Ceremonial Rebellion offering a deepened perspective on Teruko’s ceremonial anchor to her Japanese heritage and an in-depth presentation of her perseverance through rejection as her work shifted from monumental canvases in abstraction and color field to landscape impressionism and experimentation in collage, egg tempera and metallic pigments. The presentation marks the next step in a long-term initiative that will include new group and one-woman exhibitions, museum collaborations, academic partnerships, and a publishing program focused on the artist’s transnational career.
With this appointment, Emerald Room | Emerald Editions becomes a leading steward of Yokoi’s estate and an advocate for scholarship that bridges postwar modernism between Japan, Europe, and the United States.
