Summary
David Nakabayashi's painting Petroleum Party blends ideas of the definite and indefinite. There are a couple of people who appear to be at the beach, a refinery, oil tankers on a body of water, and a steeple. But the sky and foreground are unresolved muddles and smudges of color. And there are two floating arms.
In this and other paintings from Winterstate, Nakabayashi's show of recent paintings at Box Gallery, spaces of vibrant, painterly abstractions sometimes frame realistically portrayed people and things; those are based on images captured with a camera on road trips. "My last show was all from life -- it was all plein-air and still life -- but for this show I used photographs,"See the full content of this document
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Bleak House
the artist said. "It's a way of looking at stuff --
the partial images and combining things; it's like memories afterward."Nakabayashi recently landed in Santa Fe after 20 years of visiting. Although he does have a place in Casa Solana, the term "landed" may be presumptive. "This show is different because I traveled around the country the last couple of years, and it's all about th...See the full content of this document
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