Asawa (Albers)
2025
Kota Ezawa's Asawa (Albers) is a luminous transparency in lightbox work from 2025 that places a stylized, flatly rendered figure of Ruth Asawa against a backdrop of overlapping biomorphic and geometric shapes evoking the abstract compositions of Josef Albers. The cool palette of powder blues, sage greens, and earthy peach and brown tones creates a layered, translucent visual field characteristic of Ezawa's signature digital animation aesthetic. The lightbox medium lends the work an inner glow that heightens the sense of depth and transparency in the overlapping forms. Available in an intimate edition of 5, the work bridges figuration, art history, and contemporary digital practice.
- Medium
- Transparency in lightbox
- Dimensions
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Ryan Lee Gallery
Notes
Work is available via inquiry through Ryan Lee Gallery. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 6pm.
Spotted works by Kota Ezawa
Artists in conversation
Richard Prince
American · b. 1949
Prince similarly appropriates and rephotographs existing images from media and popular culture to critique how images circulate and accumulate meaning, producing flat conceptual works that interrogate originality and remix culture through photographic and lightbox formats.
Douglas Gordon
Scottish · b. 1966
Gordon works extensively with appropriated cinematic imagery and lightbox installations, recontextualizing film stills and iconic visual media into cool toned conceptual pieces that examine how images from screens shape cultural memory and perception.
Christian Marclay
American · b. 1955
Marclay shares Ezawa's preoccupation with remixing and reanimating imagery from film, photography, and popular media into conceptual art that critically examines how visual and cultural languages are constructed and reproduced across contemporary media formats.
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