Tomokazu Matsuyama Japan, b. 1976

This triptych by Tomokazu Matsuyama centers birds and flowers, signature elements of his larger visual language, celebrating them within the context of three distinctive aesthetic approaches. Matsuyama’s larger paintings are known for uniting a diverse selection of references which span East and West, past and present, and even high and low cultural vantage points, uniting them all into a common composition which characterizes his personal experience of the world. By isolating these individual visual elements, Matsuyama is creating room for reflection not only on their individual strengths as compositional motifs, but on how they complement each other and share common formal relationships within the total composition.