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Getting the Re-Boot

by Charlie Schultz
Tomoo Gokita at ATM Gallery March 26th, 2010 - May 1st, 2010
Posted 4/25/10

Tomoo Gokita has taken his painting into a new realm. His solo exhibition Wildest Dreams at ATM Gallery is a tight quintet of stencil-style works on canvas. It’s a bold departure from the surrealist inflected painting Gokita’s known for, and I imagine it sent a shock wave through those expecting an update on the old stuff. In fact, Wildest Dreams is a full reboot. Gokita has stripped bare his old painterly aesthetic. The delicate brushwork is gone and the illusion of space has collaps... [more]

Tomoo Gokita @ Honor Fraser
by Allison Cooper
Tomoo Gokita at Honor Fraser November 7th, 2009 - December 19th, 2009
Posted 11/18/09

I have found another great artist in Tomoo Gokita. Of anything I have seen recently his works seem to be an actual continuation of a linear art history. Gokita’s pieces in the show ‘Heaven’ at Honor Fraser in Culver City have obvious influences by the Surrealists (Hello, Salvador Dali and Man Ray – maybe some Rene Magritte?) as well as Cubists references in his past works (see ATM Gallery in New York City’s last showing of Gokita’s works). Gokita’s large-scale pieces have a... [more]