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Greg Ito

One Home

2021

One Home invites the viewer into a compressed, luminous interior rendered in Greg Ito's characteristically layered approach to acrylic on canvas over wood panel. Working at an intimate scale of roughly 40 by 36 centimeters, Ito constructs scenes that feel simultaneously familiar and dreamlike, suffused with a warmth that reads less as nostalgia than as sustained attention to the emotional weight of domestic space. The painting belongs to a body of work in which home is not merely a setting but a psychological condition, a place held in memory as much as in physical fact. Ito, born in Los Angeles in 1987 and trained at the San Francisco Art Institute, has built a practice examined across solo presentations at venues including Arsenal Contemporary in New York, Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago, and Steve Turner in Los Angeles, as well as group exhibitions at Jeffrey Deitch and Shulamit Nazarian. His canvases characteristically negotiate between figuration and abstraction, drawing the eye inward through color relationships and compositional intimacy rather than narrative literalism. One Home reflects that sensibility with quiet authority, offering collectors a work that rewards close and repeated looking. The painting is offered through the Art Keeps Nonprofits Going Benefit Auction, with proceeds directed toward the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and Heart of Dinner via The Here and There Collective, a fiscally sponsored project operating under the tax-exempt umbrella of Players Philanthropy Fund. Contributions made through this sale are tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law, making acquisition an act of both cultural investment and meaningful civic support. The work ships from Ito's studio in Los Angeles and is offered unframed.

Medium
Acrylic on canvas over wood panel
Overall

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Greg Ito, One Home, 2021

One Home invites the viewer into a compressed, luminous interior rendered in Greg Ito's characteristically layered approach to acrylic on canvas over wood panel. Working at an intimate scale of roughly 40 by 36 centimeters, Ito constructs scenes that feel simultaneously familiar and dreamlike, suffused with a warmth that reads less as nostalgia than as sustained attention to the emotional weight of domestic space. The painting belongs to a body of work in which home is not merely a setting but a psychological condition, a place held in memory as much as in physical fact. Ito, born in Los Angeles in 1987 and trained at the San Francisco Art Institute, has built a practice examined across solo presentations at venues including Arsenal Contemporary in New York, Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago, and Steve Turner in Los Angeles, as well as group exhibitions at Jeffrey Deitch and Shulamit Nazarian. His canvases characteristically negotiate between figuration and abstraction, drawing the eye inward through color relationships and compositional intimacy rather than narrative literalism. One Home reflects that sensibility with quiet authority, offering collectors a work that rewards close and repeated looking. The painting is offered through the Art Keeps Nonprofits Going Benefit Auction, with proceeds directed toward the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and Heart of Dinner via The Here and There Collective, a fiscally sponsored project operating under the tax-exempt umbrella of Players Philanthropy Fund. Contributions made through this sale are tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law, making acquisition an act of both cultural investment and meaningful civic support. The work ships from Ito's studio in Los Angeles and is offered unframed.

Medium
Acrylic on canvas over wood panel
Dimensions
overall: 40.6 x 35.6 cm
Year
2021
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Art Keeps Nonprofits Going Benefit Auction

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