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Tomoo Gokita — Two works: (i) Jackie Morningstar; (ii) Sorry Charlie
Tomoo Gokita

Two works: (i) Jackie Morningstar; (ii) Sorry Charlie

Two boldly graphic works rendered in Gokita's signature limited palette of blacks, whites, and grays, in which gouache is applied to canvas with a silky, airbrush-like smoothness. Ambiguous, masklike figures emerge from flat, abstracted backgrounds, their identities simultaneously suggested and withheld through the artist's reductive, graphic-novel-inflected approach. The titles lend each composition a sense of enigmatic narrative, evoking half-remembered pop culture archetypes that hover between glamour and unease.

Medium
gouache on canvas

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

May 16, 2014

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Tomoo Gokita, Two works: (i) Jackie Morningstar; (ii) Sorry Charlie

Two boldly graphic works rendered in Gokita's signature limited palette of blacks, whites, and grays, in which gouache is applied to canvas with a silky, airbrush-like smoothness. Ambiguous, masklike figures emerge from flat, abstracted backgrounds, their identities simultaneously suggested and withheld through the artist's reductive, graphic-novel-inflected approach. The titles lend each composition a sense of enigmatic narrative, evoking half-remembered pop culture archetypes that hover between glamour and unease.

Medium
gouache on canvas
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Dark, Monochrome, Japanese, Expressive, Gestural, Gouache On Canvas, Intense, Portrait, Figurative, Contemporary

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