Shohei Takasaki

Born in 1979 in Saitama, Japan, Shohei Takasaki lived in both Japan and Portland, USA before settling in Sydney, Australia where he now lives and works. The underlying and consistent theme across Takasaki’s body of work is the idea of comparison. Often repeating the same motif within a single work, he uses different painting approaches […]

Born in 1979 in Saitama, Japan, Shohei Takasaki lived in both Japan and Portland, USA before settling in Sydney, Australia where he now lives and works. The underlying and consistent theme across Takasaki’s body of work is the idea of comparison. Often repeating the same motif within a single work, he uses different painting approaches to build the subject in contrasting styles, creating works that are simultaneously figurative yet abstract, thereby drawing attention to the paradox, or “in-betweenness”, that arises from this juxtapositional experiment.