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Croy Nielsen is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Tokyo-based artist Reina Sugihara (b. 1988, Tokyo).
Reina Sugihara’s enigmatic paintings emerge from a process shaped by intuition and memory. Often relating to living organisms, she departs from specific objects that hold personal significance and transforms them into painterly experimentations by way of abstraction, layering, and erasure. For Room for Spring, her first solo exhibition at the gallery, two talismans served as a point of departure for an exploration of perspective and perceptual ambiguity. Referencing the Ebbinghaus optical illusion—where a circle appears larger or smaller depending on the size of its surrounding shape—Sugihara reflects on how perception is not fixed, but contingent—influenced by context and surroundings.
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Croy Nielsen is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Tokyo-based artist Reina Sugihara (b. 1988, Tokyo).
Reina Sugihara’s enigmatic paintings emerge from a process shaped by intuition and memory. Often relating to living organisms, she departs from specific objects that hold personal significance and transforms them into painterly experimentations by way of abstraction, layering, and erasure. For Room for Spring, her first solo exhibition at the gallery, two talismans served as a point of departure for an exploration of perspective and perceptual ambiguity. Referencing the Ebbinghaus optical illusion—where a circle appears larger or smaller depending on the size of its surrounding shape—Sugihara reflects on how perception is not fixed, but contingent—influenced by context and surroundings.
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