Shota Nakamura applies oils until something intuitively clicks and the painting lifts off the ground. His ruminative images are largely occupied by mosaic landscapes and quiescent figures. Certain junctures in his palette produce a hyperreality that rages against the natural world. Any figural presence is apparitional, as though the human subject were merely an echo. Nakamura introduces the viewer to his experience of daily rituals, extracting the light as it blares through his studio or domestic windows then consigning its essence to oils on canvas. The elastic boundary between interior and exterior is well represented by Nakamura in his interweaving of personal narratives and painting-as-subject.

Clearing

Berlin

New York City

São Paulo

Mendes Wood Dm

Peres Projects

Jack Hanley

Los Angeles

Shota Nakamura

sleeper

untitled

Untitled

reader

Untitled (blue night)

sigh

Untitled (marsden hartley)

three pear on the table

by the lake

Sigh

SUMMER TABLE