PAINTERS

NAOMI OKUBO (1985), JAPANESE PAINTER – The themes of adolescence, related to current society.

Painting girls while they walking to the house with the wolves.

The secrets of the Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum’s success? Maybe spectacular view on the 52nd and 53rd floors of the Mori Tower. Its exhibitions are always focused on contemporary culture. It was originally the private estate of an business tycoon, and the building is typical of the work of the architect Watanabe. Dedicated to contemporary art, the Hara Museum opened in 1979. You like for pioneering Japanese photography? Look for the Taka Ishii Gallery, best known for the Daido Moriyama’s street photography and the eroticism of Nobuyoshi Araki’s portraits of women.

NAOMI OKUBO’S paintings focus on social issues that play important roles in our contemporary daily lives. Her people they focus on what they should wear in, thinking how others see their appearance. Many more of her works can be found on her website. Traveling has always been a desire of the human being, a need rooted in the curiosity of knowing different cultures from those in which we live, learning to see new things with different eyes. You can find here the theme of a journey, told by a famous Japanese painter. With the changes over time, mass media and fashion had become significant, causing new social issues. The works this Japanese artist are filled contradictions and colors. Her wonderful paintings have been featured in solo- and group exhibitions throughout Japan. NAOMI OKUBO was born in Tokyo (Japan), starting 2009 she have her B.F.A. (Painting, Musashino Art University), and a M.F.A. (Painting, Musashino Art University) starting 2011. Her girls are fragile and also mysterious.Her paintings are populated by shy girls who hide behind flowers, or simply stare at the floor. In her painterly practice, she develops images that mask themes relating to her adolescence, but also connected to actual society.

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