Yukie Ohta is a New York–based artist, archivist, and writer whose work explores stillness, repetition, and the quiet intervals embedded within everyday urban life. Living and working in SoHo for most of her life, Ohta draws sustained inspiration from the neighborhood’s cast-iron architecture and the rhythms it creates amid the intensity of the city. These structures—defined by repeated forms, narrow passages of sky, and enduring material presence—serve as both a visual and emotional framework for her practice.

Her series, Intervals, invites viewers into a slower, more contemplative mode of looking, where repetition, subtle variation, and negative space become central to the experience. Inspired by a lifetime spent living and working in SoHo, the series draws from the rhythmic architectural elements of the neighborhood’s cast-iron buildings—columns, arches, windows, and the narrow spaces of sky between them—which offer moments of calm amid the intensity of the city.

Through thread, repetition, and meditative handwork, the artist translates these architectural rhythms into tactile compositions that balance presence and absence, movement and pause. The spaces between the lines are as significant as the lines themselves, allowing light, air, and silence to enter the work. Created through a deliberate, time-based process, Intervals becomes an invitation to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with the quiet structures that shape both external environments and inner life.

Ohta is the founder of the SoHo Memory Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating and preserving the history of artists’ SoHo, reflecting her long-standing engagement with place, memory, and cultural continuity.