Asuka Anastacia Ogawa

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Asuka Anastacia Ogawa

April 2020

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Asuka Anastacia Ogawa (b. 1988, Tokyo, Japan) creates large figurative paintings that depict androgynous children in chimerical dreamscapes, otherworldly scenes formed from solid fields of color and flat picture planes. Her subjects have wide, thin eyes that gaze forward, piercing the fourth wall. Ogawa conjures these compositions through an exercise that embraces unmediated impulse and channels the sense of curiosity, wonder, and play paramount to childhood.

Ogawa was born in Tokyo, where she spent much of her childhood. When she was three years old, Ogawa moved from this vertical urban backdrop to Brazil, where she passed a handful of formative early years amongst wandering farm animals and rushing waterfalls. As a teen, having attended high school partially in Sweden and partially in Tokyo, she moved to London to pursue her BFA from Central Saint Martins. After her first solo show at Henry Taylor’s studio in Los Angeles, CA in 2017, she had a solo show at Blum & Poe, Tokyo in 2020, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles in 2021, Blum & Poe, New York in 2022, and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles in 2023. Her work is in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC. She is currently based in Los Angeles, CA. 

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