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Shuto Okayasu | The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

space 776 is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by brooklyn based artist Shuto Okayasu at Space 776 New York on view from December 10, 2021, to January 26, 2022. This is second presentation.

Okayasu’s work explores the dual nature of the same thing; “strange and beautiful,” real and imagined, loud and quiet, chaos and harmony, e.t.c. Through the process of art marking, what he considers as endless practice of recording and rebuilding, he lets his mind travel freely between the two worlds; offline and online, the present and the dream, and the past and the future.

In Okayasu’s work, a complicated foreground with a crowd of vivid colors creates contrast with a simple and smooth background, yet they harmonize each other in the consistent lonely quiet mood. Influenced by sampling technique of hip hop, Okayasu randomly chooses from what he is caught visually and auditory everyday and his influenced culture; Japanese Edo painting, anime, Western painting, cartoon, and combines the essence of them on canvas to appreciate and represent the world where he belongs to.

In this material world, countless objects are produced and wasted everyday. Reflecting the sight from his own experience of natural disaster and the annual sea level rising affected my the climate change, water, particularly in his painting, washes away everything from art to trash and lays new horizon that reflects warm light of the sky or the someones’ apartments windows.That world is decadence and surreal, but at the same time, is true to the actual world in some way and leaves us with hope.











When: Fri., Dec. 10, 2021 - Wed., Jan. 26, 2022 at All Day

space 776 is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by brooklyn based artist Shuto Okayasu at Space 776 New York on view from December 10, 2021, to January 26, 2022. This is second presentation.

Okayasu’s work explores the dual nature of the same thing; “strange and beautiful,” real and imagined, loud and quiet, chaos and harmony, e.t.c. Through the process of art marking, what he considers as endless practice of recording and rebuilding, he lets his mind travel freely between the two worlds; offline and online, the present and the dream, and the past and the future.

In Okayasu’s work, a complicated foreground with a crowd of vivid colors creates contrast with a simple and smooth background, yet they harmonize each other in the consistent lonely quiet mood. Influenced by sampling technique of hip hop, Okayasu randomly chooses from what he is caught visually and auditory everyday and his influenced culture; Japanese Edo painting, anime, Western painting, cartoon, and combines the essence of them on canvas to appreciate and represent the world where he belongs to.

In this material world, countless objects are produced and wasted everyday. Reflecting the sight from his own experience of natural disaster and the annual sea level rising affected my the climate change, water, particularly in his painting, washes away everything from art to trash and lays new horizon that reflects warm light of the sky or the someones’ apartments windows.That world is decadence and surreal, but at the same time, is true to the actual world in some way and leaves us with hope.

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