[Fukuoka] Nami SHIBATA Exhibition “Story Within a Story” September 17th (Sat) - October 2nd (Sun), 2022

《 Riot 》Oil on canvas 2022 63.77×102.36 in

Nami SHIBATA Exhibition “Story Within a Story”
September 17th (Sat) - October 2nd (Sun), 2022
The artist will be at the gallery on September 17, 18, 24 and 25
10:00 AM-6:00 PM (Open every day during the event)
Venue: MIZOE ART GALLERY FUKUOKA

This exhibition will feature paintings that depict images evoked by stories and their backgrounds.
So far, Nami Shibata's paintings have been based on the textural qualities of oil paint and brushstrokes, the material strangeness of color tones, and the interesting formations that they create. The subjects of her portraits are generic figures from theater plays such as actors, in an attempt to “paint nothing” by drawing up a fiction.
On the other hand, Shibata writes stories in order to “depict something”. It is in these stories that she comments on history, society, culture, politics, beliefs, conflicts and the tragedies that they produce, and herself.
In the face of the chaos of the real world, she says that she is gradually merging her two identities as a "painter" and a "writer".
The artworks in "Story Within a Story" depicts various scenes, timelines, and fragments of memory cut out of a story, as illusions. Please come and see the new endeavors of an artist, Nami Shibata.
Kazunobu Abe, Mizoe Art Gallery


《 Chair and woman 》Oil on canvas 2022 27.83×23.70in

Nami SHIBATA/ Born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1985. Graduated Fukuoka Prefectural Dazaifu High School. Dropped out of Onomichi University, Graduated School of Fine Arts. Selected for TOKYO WONDER WALL 2009 (as well as 2010). 2010 Tokyo Wonder Site Emerging "ROOFS". Selected for Shell Art Award 2013. Participated in solo and group exhibitions in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Kagawa, and more. Exhibited at Art Fair Tokyo in 2014 and 2015.


《 Conversation》Oil on canvas 2022 23.85×28.62 in