
Mass Medium
2006
Tomoo Gokita's 'Mass Medium' is a 2006 gouache on paper composition exploring themes of media and communication. The work reflects contemporary concerns about mass culture through delicate paper-based medium.
- Medium
- gouache on paper
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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September 30, 2020
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Kara Walker
American · b. 1969

Walker's bold black and white figurative works similarly interrogate mass culture, identity, and media narratives through expressive gestural imagery. Her works share Gokita's confrontational approach to portraiture and contemporary postmodern commentary on cultural power structures.

Marcel Dzama
Canadian · b. 1974

Dzama works extensively in gouache on paper creating bold figurative compositions with a similarly dark expressive quality and postmodern sensibility. His works share Gokita's graphic boldness, paper based intimacy, and engagement with contemporary cultural themes through striking portraiture.

Yoshitomo Nara
Japanese · b. 1959

As a fellow Japanese contemporary artist, Nara creates bold expressive figurative works on paper that similarly engage with mass media culture and postmodern concerns. His gestural portrait based imagery shares Gokita's graphic intensity and critical examination of contemporary cultural saturation.
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