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Taka Ishii Gallery•Nov 05, 2025 — Dec 13, 2025
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Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the work of Makoto Saito, on view from Wednesday, November 5, to Saturday, December 13. This will be the artist’s third solo show at the gallery and will feature four new large-scale works from among the abstract paintings he has been producing in recent years.
Saito is known for portraits, including of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, and Antonin Artaud, in which the subjects’ faces appear haunted by insanity. These are made by transferring computer images onto canvas with a brush as if breathing life into digital data, in a process that involves dissecting and reconstructing faces on the computer to create intricate dot-matrix blueprints.
The new works in this exhibition were produced by combining fragments of data from numerous portraits, assembled through a process of digital deconstruction and reconstruction. Saito describes the process of arriving a…
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Taka Ishii Gallery•Nov 05, 2025 — Dec 13, 2025
Press Release
Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the work of Makoto Saito, on view from Wednesday, November 5, to Saturday, December 13. This will be the artist’s third solo show at the gallery and will feature four new large-scale works from among the abstract paintings he has been producing in recent years.
Saito is known for portraits, including of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, and Antonin Artaud, in which the subjects’ faces appear haunted by insanity. These are made by transferring computer images onto canvas with a brush as if breathing life into digital data, in a process that involves dissecting and reconstructing faces on the computer to create intricate dot-matrix blueprints.
The new works in this exhibition were produced by combining fragments of data from numerous portraits, assembled through a process of digital deconstruction and reconstruction. Saito describes the process of arriving a…
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