Wednesday by Hiroko Nakakita
Currently on show at Yamaki Fine Art are the large and small paintings of Hiroko Nakakita with the smallish paintings revealing her maturing ability as a painter. Within this exhibition it appears that the larger painted images were very ambitious projects and one may well have wanted them to contained the same sort of very confident paint handling power as evidenced within the smallish images that resonated in the gallery, like the above painting titled; Wednesday
Big paintings are hard to do and they take an enormous amount of personal confidence to execute in any painting medium. Although there is within many artists lifetimes, small but sure steps taken to achieve successful large paintings and from of the sensations that resonate out from Nakakita's largish canvasses on show, it is obvious she is well along the way towards successful large image.
The smaller paintings on show here are really competently handled, they contain almost jewel like qualities that sparkle off the wall, brilliant risky colours, some sanded in places others contain thickly applied traces of oily paint in hot lipstick pinks lycra cerulean blues, light cadmium ochre sap greens with slight whitish paint marks delicately placed on top.
Nakakita's Wednesday painting resonates the joys of life in the form of coloured marks, the idiosyncratic placement of these traces from memories, that are recalled through delay in the act of painting, along with remembered influences colliding from other moments in life, appear to contain the sweet and the sour of life’s happy moments. So if you’re in Motomachi - Kobe do go and see this interesting exhibition.
Big paintings are hard to do and they take an enormous amount of personal confidence to execute in any painting medium. Although there is within many artists lifetimes, small but sure steps taken to achieve successful large paintings and from of the sensations that resonate out from Nakakita's largish canvasses on show, it is obvious she is well along the way towards successful large image.
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that colour has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.
Roy Lichtenstein
American painter
The smaller paintings on show here are really competently handled, they contain almost jewel like qualities that sparkle off the wall, brilliant risky colours, some sanded in places others contain thickly applied traces of oily paint in hot lipstick pinks lycra cerulean blues, light cadmium ochre sap greens with slight whitish paint marks delicately placed on top.
Nakakita's Wednesday painting resonates the joys of life in the form of coloured marks, the idiosyncratic placement of these traces from memories, that are recalled through delay in the act of painting, along with remembered influences colliding from other moments in life, appear to contain the sweet and the sour of life’s happy moments. So if you’re in Motomachi - Kobe do go and see this interesting exhibition.
