Shizue Sakamoto
Shizue Sakamoto was born in Andradina, 1969, and lives and works in São Paulo.
The artist works with painting and conducts a delicate research of colors. She investigates the transitoriness in the relationship between colors, and between the painting and the observer, which reveal themselves before a gaze away from celerity. She attended the course “Painting: Practice and Reflection” with Paulo Pasta, “Creative Process” with Charles Watson at Tomie Ohtake Institute, and “Art History” with Rodrigo Naves.
“His paintings have the quality of being soft and intense at the same time. Ambivalent, in a good sense, they console while at the same time asking us equally intense questions, such as the boundaries between figuration and abstraction, surface and depth. They seem to want to put the whole mystery of the universe back into silence.” Paulo Pasta
Solo Exhibitions
2020 “Scores in Colors”, Kogan Amaro Gallery, São Paulo
2017 “Silence and Light”, Tato Gallery, São Paulo
2011 “Transcendental Duet”, Deco Gallery, São Paulo
Some Collective Exhibitions
2022 “Convergent Blows” Via Thorey Gallery, Vitória, ES
2021 “Color Bind” Kogan Amaro Gallery, SP
2019 “New Representations” Kogan Amaro Gallery, SP, Brazil
2018 “Collective Exhibition” Auroras, SP
Awards
2014 Acquisition Prize, 46th Piracicaba Contemporary Art Saloon
2010 Honorable Mention, Grande Exposição de Artes Bunkyo, SP
Principal Collections
Marcos Amaro Foundation, Itú, SP
Miguel Dutra Municipal Art Gallery, Piracicaba, SP