Tomona Matsukawa (TOMONA MATSUKAWA)
I visited Tomona Matsukawa’s solo exhibition “Love Yourself” at Yuka Tsuruno Gallery.
Tomona Matsukawa is a single mother raising a seven-year-old child.
Her works incorporate motifs that call to mind the life of a mother and daughter.
Beyond the mother–child relationship, works that express what it means to live as a woman are also rendered with striking realism.
Jewelry sparkling on the hand of a mother whose everyday life is still visible — an extraordinary touch inside the ordinary. What an incredible sense of expression.
Imagining what is left unpainted in “Please, stay as you are 3” stirs an unshakable, aching sense of longing.
Every work carried the weight of strong technical command.
Many of the pieces on display had already found buyers.
The red and blue dots on the price list looked like votes of empathy cast for the mothers and children depicted — a lens onto the realities that today’s society carries with it.
