Futo Akiyoshi

As part of a younger generation of artists working to explore and re-establish the meaning of painting, Futo Akiyoshi has built his creative practice on a foundation of self-imposed rules and repetitions. Meditative in their execution, Akiyoshi’s works take on an ethereal, anonymous quality, often heightened by color and uniform texture. His most involved series, entitled Room and ongoing since 2002, is comprised of small-scale golden-hued paintings, each depicting the ghostly outline of structure through the repetition of directional brush strokes. Transcending the line between abstraction and representation, Akiyoshi imbues his pieces with subtle humor and bewitching simplicity.

Akiyoshi has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions including Taro Nasu, Tokyo, Longhouse Projects, New York, Culture Medium, Nagoya, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, and the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima.