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NUDE MODEL
2025
Acrylic on canvas
20 7/8 x 31 3/4 x 1 1/8 in
53 x 80.5 x 2.9 cm
 
2025.5.31 update




Tomoo
Gokita’s

New

Solo

Exhibition



“NAKED”



Opens at BLUM Los Angeles







Tomoo Gokita’s third solo exhibition at BLUM Los Angeles is now on view. Centered on the classical motif of the female nude, his latest works emerge from a friction of intuition and impulse.





“NAKED,” a solo exhibition by Tokyo-based painter Tomoo Gokita, is now on view at BLUM Los Angeles through August 16. This marks his third solo show at the gallery’s Los Angeles location, presenting a new body of work centered on the female nude—a motif that has been depicted countless times throughout art history.

In the past, Gokita often drew from found images such as old magazines and photographs, distorting familiar figures to develop a distinctive painterly language somewhere between abstraction and figuration. In recent years, however, his practice has shifted inward, leaning toward a more introspective and improvisational approach.

Faint impressions and quiet stirrings surface from within. As he keeps drawing, they begin to take shape. Gokita shared in his Nigh Issue 9 interview that it’s in this very process that his paintings become truly his own. And perhaps that is why, in recent works where lines and colors drawn from deep memory or subconscious spaces begin to emerge as form, shaped by repeated layering and erasure, we sense his physical intuition more vividly than ever.

The nudes in this exhibition are not static representations of beauty. Instead, within textured surfaces where instinct and impulse collide, distorted bodies appear—raw, uneasy, and unflinchingly exposed under the viewer’s gaze.

This show captures where Gokita finds himself now, at a moment when he simply said, “I just want to be freer.” Knowing there are people who will stand in front of these living, breathing paintings—there’s something about that thought that stirs the heart. If you happen to be in California, or even just have the chance, this is a show worth seeing in person.




PEEPING WOMAN
2025
Acrylic on canvas
46 x 35 7/8 x 1 in
116.8 x 91.1 x 2.7 cm
 
NAKED MAYOR
2025
Charcoal on paper
16 1/8 x 12 1/2 in
41 x 31.8 cm
21 3/4 x 18 1/8 x 1 1/2 in framed
55.2 x 46 x 3.8 cm
 




Overview

Tomoo Gokita
NAKED

Dates: May 30 (Fri) – August 16 (Sat), 2025
Venue: BLUM Los Angeles
Venue: 2727 South La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90034
Venue: blum-gallery.com　









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