Artist Naomi Nakazato excavates the plastic syntax of landscapes and their artificially relative perspectives by referencing the fragmentary in-between of her biracial identity. The artist talk will include recent works and their applied printmaking methods, expanding notions on authenticity, transference, matrices, and mistranslations.
Naomi Nakazato (b. 1992) is a Japanese-American, multidisciplinary artist whose predominately materials-based practice surveys the conglomerate landscape of memory, language, and the artificial authenticity of the biracial experience. Her work utilizes the semiotics and syntactic intervention of natural objects to examine the weight of authenticity and the yearning to articulate a simultaneously close and unfamiliar self. Nakazato holds a BA in Painting and Drawing from the South Carolina School of the Arts and an MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art. Her recent work and installations have been exhibited at Below Grand (NY), Olympia (NY), Galerie Tracanelli (Grenoble, FR), and PADA (Barreiro, PT). She is the recent recipient of grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, FST Studio Projects Funds, and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. Nakazato lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.