Jacob Hashimoto’s solo show at Studio la Città presents for the first time an entire collection of 34 works on canvas.
Therefore, it will not be monochrome kites that engaging the gallery space, or colored kites mounted in wall pieces.
This time Hashimoto works only on the canvas, his work is pure paint on canvas.
While Hashimoto has previously used oil and acrylic paints on canvas to explore tangents in his work, asides and inspirations, these latest explorations in painting are more substantively an extension of the body of work for which he is best known. They strip the work of its charactaristic technique and leaves the essential gestures and motifs – the foundations of Hashimoto’s musings. The signature characteristics of his broader output are still recognizable: here, the essential architectures undergirding his kite-based work now translate to the color fields and layered paint marks appearing on these medium-sized canvases. Alongside these chromatic abstractions, a new series of paintings employing a muted, largely black and white palette will hang in a row on the longest wall of the gallery.