Mind Explosion - Acrylic & Watercolor 30'' x 57''

Naoyuki Okada uses delicate rice paper and subtle light effects to create compositions that evoke a sense of the sublime.  The shifting, expansive, non-objective works remind the viewer of the most macrocosmic and microcosmic events in nature. Okada, in essence, attempts to recreate the same contemplative and communicative state that a person experiences in connection with the natural.  Okada uses his work to remind us “how powerful people’s perceptions can be.”

Okada, a native of Osaka, Japan, came to settle in New York in the early nineties after spending his formative years in a nomadic trek all over the European continent, a Bildungsroman that took him to Switzerland, Holland, Italy, England and France. In his acrylic and watercolor compositions, one senses universality.  These works appear to be born of a need to communicate beyond culture and language and this artistic effort to communicate a phenomenological truth is perhaps no less than one would expect from such a genuine traveler.

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