LA Artcore Union Center for the Arts, Little Tokyo
120 Judge John Aiso Street, Lobby Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun. 12-5 p.m. Phone: (213) 617-3274
Yasunari Nakagomi
July 1 – 30, 2017
LA Artcore presents an exhibition of new oil paintings by Tokyo-based artist Yasunari Nakagomi whose renewed investigation of surface conceives of the landscape genre as a product of modernity.
The artist begins a painting applying paint to form an initial image or impression. The initial image precipitates a development and changes continuously with each added layer toward a final and crystalized image.
The final image employs the concept of representation negating illusionistic depth or detail in favor of a paintings' physical surfaces. Nakagomi's paintings refer not to a specific landscape but a specific feeling that accrues in the form a landscape.
The artist expresses rumbling ruptures between past and present. Nakagomi was born in the Yamanashi prefecture, a province roughly seventy miles southwest of Tokyo. Yamanashi’s rural culture and varied natural terrains leading down to Mt. Fuji affected the artist's earliest sensory experiences.