Tamaho Togasaki, “What Changes, What Doesn’t”
We visited the solo exhibition of Tamaho Togasaki, held at JINEN Gallery.
We had also seen Tamaho Togasaki’s work last December at the “Shutoko Exhibition,” which we covered extensively on our site, and she has been on our radar ever since.
Her works are acrylic paintings that depict deformed and simplified versions of scenery we might recognize from everyday life.
The striking clean blues catch the eye and seem to capture an alternate face of the city.
In her paintings, which contain no human figures, an impersonal world opens up. It’s a worldview one can savor as if having it all to oneself.
Even as landscapes, they carry a designerly quality in their forms, and her placement of color is exquisite.
The acrylic paint is applied flatly, as if the movement of the brush itself has been designed.
In Summary
The tidy design space nested within these impersonal landscapes is compelling, and it offers a stress-free image to modern people worn out by the clutter of the urban environment.
The color balance is beautifully struck, and it stirred a real desire to own one of these works.
