Anomaly II, 2005
acrylic, oil on birch plywood
32” x 24”
Breathing, 2005
acrylic, oil on birch plywood
32” x 24”
Deadly Sweet, 2005
acrylic, oil on birch plywood
36” x 24”
Little Matters, 2005
acrylic, oil on birch plywood
24” x 22”
Mid Day, 2006
acrylic, oil on birch plywood
32” x 24”
Odds and Ends, 2006
acrylic, oil on birch plywood
54” x 48”
Pink nor Pale, 2005
acrylic, oil on birch plywood
30” x 24”
Silver Spring, 2005
acrylic, oil on birch plywood
26” x 24”
Surrender Skin, 2005
acrylic, oil on birch plywoodr
24” x 22”
White Matter, 2006
acrylic, oil on birch plywood
54” x 46” 4-panel (26” x 22” each)
Spirillum V, 2004
Oil, acrylic, asphaltum on paper
30” x 22”
Spirillum II, 2004
Oil, acrylic, asphaltum on paper
25-1/4” x 20-1/2”
Inside of Things II, 2004
Oil, acrylic, asphaltum on paper
30” x 44”
Inside of Things I, 2004
Oil, acrylic, asphaltum on paper
30” x 22”
Tomas Nakada recent paintings on paper were created while at an artist residency program in New England. Pigmented oil and acrylic media are combined with rich black asphaltum in fluid painterly compositions. As the asphaltum does not dilute or combine with the paints, its black markings give the works a graphic strength.
Earlier paintings and monotypes by the artist took inspiration and, in some cases, their subject matter from science and nature. Muted outlines and dark sepia shapes echoed images of body fluids, skin markings and chromosomes. The artists practice has since brought his work into a refined and purely abstract form; there is no longer a context of representation of known objects. His confidence and experience seems to have led his images to stand apart from natural references.
Tomas Nakada has exhibited at Gallery Paule Anglim for over ten years and had solo exhibitions at the Newport Harbor Art Museum (now Orange County Museum) and at the Richmond Art Center , both in California. He has both a M.F.A. and a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute.
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