Honor Fraser
2622 S La Cienega Blvd
310.837.0191
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Tomoo Gokita: Paraiso (2009, acrylic on canvas, 76 x 76 inches). Courtesy of Honor Fraser; Photo: Josh White.
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Nov 7, 2009 – Dec 19, 2009
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
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Tomoo Gokita's new body of work reveals an artistic practice that walks the tightrope between abstraction and representation. Rendered only in blue and white acrylic, Heaven is as much about Gokita's delicate paint application as it is about his fractured world, characterized by ambiguity. Eating Pleasure presents a voluptuous outline of a female body with a pair of two-dimensional lips in place of a head. The extremities of the figure are incomplete as the arms and legs come to a fine point with no articulation. In her right arm the figure holds a head that fades into the recesses of the paint. The beautiful mystery of Heaven is Gokita's ability to crack an egg of suspicion over our heads while suspending the yolk.
