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MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY is proud to present Tokyo, a solo exhibition by Naoki Tomita opening on October 18, 2019, featuring new oil paintings capturing modern-day Tokyo.
Tomita faithfully renders his landscape scenes in oils with the application of thick layers of paint. The scenes depicted include the façade of a vacant building, a completely empty room he was taken to by a realtor, a coin-operated parking lot, and a night scene of the city. The paintings, however, are devoid of people. Or have nothing more than signs of a gaze directed at a scene in which something is about to occur.

The vague …