Nobu Fukui, Abstract Flowers Oil Painting Study for Amaryllis, 1990

Description

This piece is done in a sort of sgraffito technique with the flowers sort of etched in the paint.
Born … more This piece is done in a sort of sgraffito technique with the flowers sort of etched in the paint.
Born in Tokyo, Japan, Nobu Fukui Came to New York where he became a US citizen. From 1964 - 65, he studied at the Art Students League in New York City. His work has been widely exhibited in New York and California.
He had his first one-man show in this country in 1965 at the Daniels Gallery in New York. That same year his works were included in the Japanese Artists in Europe and America Exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. This was followed by numerous exhibits and one-man shows in various cities in the United States and Japan - New York, Indianapolis, Ann Arbor, Pittsburgh and Yokohama, for example.

Fukui's works are formal, dynamic and abstract. Form functions minimally as a symmetrical structure so as to focus on his real interest in color interaction. Fukui's work is represented in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Larry Aldrich Museum, Conn; Dartmouth College, NH; New York State University, Potsdam NY; Roosevelt College, Chicago IL; Westinghouse Corp, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT; The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN and The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI, Indianapolis Museum of Art; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; amongst others. and other private collections. He has exhibited widely, including solo shows at Daniels Gallery, Max Hutchinson Gallery, Marisa Del Re Gallery, and Steven Haller Gallery in New York; Richard Greene Gallery, Santa Monica; Hokin Gallery, Bay Harbor Island, FL; Japanese Artists In Europe and America, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1965; and Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Mus. Art.
more recently he has exhibited at Margaret Thatcher Projects, New Britain Museum of American Art, Stux + Haller and at Stephen Haller Gallery. less