Is abstract painting a more vivid form of reality?
Is it a painting or a discharge?
With automated and swiftly executed brush strokes on smooth supports, Nakabayashi creates blotches of what looks like a forest or a river.
For Nakabayashi, uncaringly cutting down a tree in a street in order to keep it from projecting out onto the street is akin to not listening to its voice; water flowing through a garden is for him who is protected from others and never leaves the darkness. Paintings, which at first glance appears to be landscapes, vibrantly express people’s reality.
What is depicted in these paintings changes constantly according to the viewer’s background and the world’s prevailing issues; they can become a device that enables the viewer to experience the painting’s physicality and to imagine the pain of others.
“Since my childhood, I have lived as a woman in Japan, and have constantly felt physical pain that is hard to heal.
Is this process meant to heal those wounds, or to reach out to those in need of help?
It can’t be just one or the other. The only way to understand someone else and to connect with society is to objectify one’s world.”
ナカバヤシアリサ｜Nakabayashi Arisa
Born in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo in 1992
Graduated from Tama Art University Oil Painting Major in 2017
Joined Art Studio LION in 2018
2022 Under production at the joint studio “Atelier Voice” in Sagamihara
Solo exhibition
2019 Cross Section Portrait / LAUNCH PAD GALLERY / Yokohama, Kanagawa
2022 Silent Forest / BankART Under35 2022 / Yokohama, Kanagawa
2022 Where it flows /GALLERY KTO Substitute / Shibuya, Tokyo
2023 From Point A / Beak 585 Gallery / Osaka
2023 Look at one’s fingertips / KATSUYA SUSUKI GALLERY / Meguro, Tokyo
2023 Z Axis for Painting / Gallery TK2 / Nihonbashi, Tokyo
2023 “I don’t know the color of my own back” / Gallery TK2 / Nihonbashi, Tokyo
2024 “Days to come” / Baoziangyan International Art Village / Taipei
2024 “Scale-up of a miniature” / Gallery Valur / Aichi, Japan
2024 “Days to come” / Yokohama Gate Tower 1F Start Gallery 2+4 / Yokohama, Japan
2024 “project N”, Tokyo Opera City, Shinjuku, Tokyo
2025 “scope”, Gallery TK2, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
group exhibitions
2014 Menhera Exhibition 2 / LE DECO / Shibuya
2015 Menhera Exhibition special / TAV GALLERY / Asagaya
2016 You guys are not friends Exhibition / DUST BUNNY / Ikebukuro
2016 Tokyo Wonder Seed / Tokyo Wonder Site / Shibuya
2017 40th Tokyo Five Art University Union Graduation Completion Exhibition / The National Art Center, Tokyo / Roppongi
2020 What you can see / rusu / Meguro
2021 Super happening 18 / KOGANEI ART SPOT Chateau 2F / Koganei
2022 100人(people)10 / Tokyo Midtown / Roppongi
2022 Idemitsu Art Award Exhibition 2022 / The National Art Center, Tokyo / Roppongi
2023 FACE Exhibition 2023 / Sompo Museum of Art / Shinjuku
2023 Now You Know!Vol.3 / Whimsy Works Gallery / Taipei
2023 liminal / Gallery TK2 / Nihonbashi, Tokyo
2023 WHAT CAFÉ EXHIBITION vol.25 / WHAT CAFE / Tennozu
2023 face to face Vol.III / Bunkamura Gallery Eight / Shibuya
2024 KONSHIN / Gallery UG Tennoz / Tennoz
Residence
2019 BankART AIR 2019 / BankART Station / Yokohama
2024 AIR Taipei / Baozhangyan International Art Village / Taipei
Open studio
2018 super open studio / LION / Sagamihara
2019 BankART AIR 2019 / BankART Station / Yokohama
2019 super open studio / LION / Sagamihara
2022 super open studio / Atelier Voice / Sagamihara
2023 super open studio / Atelier Voice / Sagamihara
2024 super open studio / Atelier Voice / Sagamihara
Award
2016 Tokyo WONDER SEED Selected
2022 BankART Under35 Selected
2022 100人(people)10 Selected
2022 Idemitsu Art Award Emiko Aoki Jury Award
2022 FACE 2023 Selected