Kikuo Saito | Unraveling | Summer Song

Summer Song curated by Kikuo Saito Studio presents paintings on display primarily focus on a period of 12 years in which Kikuo Saito returns again and again to the implied shape of an ellipse as a site to explore notational mark-making and dynamic color relationships. Five canvases share a similar composition in which small gestural brushstrokes follow the circumference of a large circle placed atop a monochrome color field. Two early tondos by Saito which have never before been exhibited inverse this composition, with squares revealing raw canvas placed within a round composition.