Naohiko Inukai

No. 16 painting by Naohiko Inukai

1966

Strong vertical and horizontal elements woven into a repeating pattern, Naohiko Inukai's painting Four & Six, No. 1 offers a calming rhythmic symmetry. As was noted the the March 196...

This work is comprised of four 36" x 34" canvases, which combine into a quadtych measuring 72" x 67". Provenance: Private collection, California, 1974-2017. The artist responded to...

Gorgeous example of Walter Darby Bannard's use of acrylic mediums which came out in the 1970s. It is richly colored example of his work from that period. An American abstract painter...

Signed and dated "© D. Christensen 1989" with an orientation arrow verso. Medium "Acrylic on Canvas", title "Java", size "22 x 20" are all inscribed verso. Dimensions of this artwo...

Budd Hopkin's Mahler's Castle paintings exemplified a shift away from his holistic single image paintings of 1971 and 1972 to a new hieraticism. Both Mon­drian and Newman, for instan...

The rich red background of Naohiko Inukai's painting seems to glow under good lighting, with the floating dots adding a touch of whimsy to this minimalist work. The painting measure...

"Woman in Pink, Blue, and Gray" is an acrylic on canvas painting measuring 24" tall by 18" wide. It's very active, with a woman wearing a colorful cap with feather, her tresses falling down behind/beside her, portrayed with cubist abandon as the artist folds in Picasso with Philip Guston... Note all the formal elements are present – her eyes, her smile, her dress and bosom – yet assemble and disassemble in front of our eyes. From Peter Schenck...

"Strengths and Weaknesses" is a portrait exploring several elements and strategies that fascinate the artist – notably the performance anxiety induced by simply being an artist, staring down the freight train of art history as it hurtles toward you every time you pick up a brush. Luck? Talent? Maybe. There are signposts and guides in this painting, of course (Cubism! Surrealism! Brancusi! Guston!), but they can clobber you too if you're not careful. Even the phrase "strengths and weaknesses" smacks of compromises and rationalization – deadly to an artist looking to construct their own integral world. "Strengths and Weaknesses" is an acrylic and charcoal on canvas measuring 54" tall by 54" wide. It was included in the artist's solo show "Comedy Cellar" at Freight + Volume Gallery, New York City in July 2018. (See last photograph for an installation view.) From Daniel Gerwin – "Schenck’s color is vibrant, wild, saturated to the point of overheating, and altogether brilliant in the balancing of hues, temperatures, shapes, and color quantities. The paintings have a remarkable coherence for their dizzying juxtaposition of so many small chromatic passages." (Essay: The Anxiety and the Ecstasy) Peter Schenck...

"Rembrandt Woman" is an intriguing painting, a woman in classic Dutch master portrait pose with a hand modestly holding her secrets dear, yet por...

An original hard edge abstraction by American artist James Koenig. This piece is featured in Draw Near which is currently on view at Benjaman Gallery.

An original hard edge abstraction by American artist James Koenig. This work titled "Ribbon Structure #4" is part of the Draw Near exhibition currently on view at Benjaman Gallery

An original hard edge abstraction by American artist James Koenig titled "Cool Triangles. This work is part of Draw Near exhibition which opened at Benjaman Gallery on March 11. Th...