Elizabeth Buhe, a critic and an art historian based in New York, covered the recent Marlborough Gallery Chelsea New York solo exhibition of Yokoi's work simply titled Teruko Yokoi. She brought forth a critical survey of nearly 7 deacdes of work and the artist's first re-emergence in the United States in almost 50-years. An excerpt from her review is below:
Unlike many of her peers, such as Joan Mitchell, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, or Sam Francis (to whom she was briefly married), Yokoi did not hesitate to hang her compositions around recurrent motifs such as a soft-edged diamond, leaf- or flower-like constellations, or the syncopation of repeated vertical stripes, as if we find ourselves in a grove of trees. Yet Yokoi’s work nonetheless demonstrates the exteriorization of abstract content that was so typical of her generation of painters, who largely abandoned abstract expressionism’s surrealist-derived reliance on the unconscious self in favor of exploring the reality of nature and its perceptual effects."
- Elizabeth Buhe, ArtSeen: Teruko Yokoi, THE BROOKLYN RAIL, April 2024