The Japanese beauty that fear produces. New ground for the contemporary Nihonga painters Yasunari Ikenaga, Toko Okamoto, Arisa Nakahara, Hiroo Suzuki and Suzume Uchida. A world of the weird, cold enough to freeze you, shown together with hanging scrolls, ukiyo-e and other work old and new.

The Japanese beauty that fear produces.

New ground for the contemporary Nihonga painters Yasunari Ikenaga, Toko Okamoto, Arisa Nakahara, Hiroo Suzuki and Suzume Uchida. A world of the weird, cold enough to freeze you, shown together with hanging scrolls, ukiyo-e and other work old and new.

Exhibition Information
ExhibitionGhost Paintings in Midwinter
DatesDecember 11 (Fri) – December 19 (Sat), 2015
VenueGallery SHUKADO
Hours10:00 - 18:00
NotesOpen every day of the exhibition. Admission free.
岡本東子「暗がり」
岡本東子「暗がり」
岡本東子「暗がり」

私が子供の頃に見た「幽霊」（と信じている）から着想を得て制作しました。
真夜中、木造ボロアパートの部屋の暗がりに現れた得体の知れないその女は、
気味の悪い笑みを浮かべてこちらを見ていた。
その光景は、今でも脳裏に焼き付いていて消える事はない。
あちら側へ引きずり込まれる、と直感的に感じて逃げたあの日の、
「得も言われぬ恐怖」を形にしました。

Toko Okamoto
Born in Kyoto and earned a MFA degree in Japanese Style Painting from the Tokyo University of the Arts, Okamoto Toko is a Japanese painter who looks straight at the essence of what she is painting, especially the delicacy of women depicted with refinement as if you could feel the temperature, humidity and the air rising from the surface of the work, a mysterious world created by her great artistic senses. It is hard not to be captivated by her intense and amazing works.
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