Hisako kobayashi biography of william

These paintings, highly lyrical and evocative, easily align with the American color field movement, but there is also something Japanese in the subtlety of their feeling.

Kobayashi, who cannot but help to be poised between the circumstances of her Japanese background and the ongoing innovations of New York, has originated a style that pays homage to both her past and present: its combination of a tacitly Asian presence and a tie to Western painterly abstraction results in a body of work notable for its evocation of a muted, elegant sensibility.

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In the main space of the gallery, Kobayashi’s paintings generate a quiet atmosphere.

They are windows to a world of contemplation, in which silence and stillness hold sway. Perhaps it is the meditational element that ties Kobayashi to her Japanese past; the paintings evoke pools of memory, in which a viewer may find the depth of solace.

In “Nehan” (2022), the overall color is a dark jade, whose uniformity of hue is made