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DESCRIPTION:<strong></strong>  Naoto Nakagawa&rsquo\;s early work  investig
 ated the nature of things\, the psychological baggage that we so  willingl
 y let our common household items carry. This led to years of  contrived st
 ill life paintings full of socio-sexual\, art &amp\; culture  references t
 hat later developed into nature paintings\, the environment  that holds ou
 r things. Since the 90s\, the titles of each of the series  of nature pain
 tings - <em>Song of the Earth</em> \, <em>Forest of Eden</em> \, and most 
 recently\, <em>Earth Wave</em> - exhibit the artists move through various 
 examinations of how the big  thing\, life and death\, inextricably feed of
 f each other. \n \n In the <em>Earth Wave</em> paintings\, the artist has 
 added a  compositional device\, transparent concentric rectangles - frames
 \,  portals\, layers\, time lapses\, geometry: man made things - that disr
 upt  yet also concentrate his images of the natural world. And while the  
 palette is pumped up\, it is also limited and used as a way to graduate  a
 nd spatially define the territory of each the concentric rectangles.  Laye
 ring and intersecting the representation of flowers and foliage\,  they cr
 eate a push and pull\, if not a pulsing\, that leads us into the  central 
 focus of the painting\, the center of a flower which in its  representatio
 n moves swiftly from vegetation to gender to the erotic  core that is life
  and death. 
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SUMMARY:Naoto Nakagawa: Earth Wave paintings
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