WARREN WOODS PLEIN AIR, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
WARREN WOODS PLEIN AIR, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
Three Oaks, MI plein air, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches
Three Oaks, MI plein air, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches
Cornfields, Three Oaks, MI plein air, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches
Cornfields, Three Oaks, MI plein air, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches
Galien River, plein air, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches
Galien River, plein air, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches
Three Oaks, MI plein air, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches
Three Oaks, MI plein air, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches
Three Oaks, MI, Plein air, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches
Three Oaks, MI, Plein air, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches
Spring Creek School, plein air, oil on board, 12 x 12 inches
Spring Creek School, plein air, oil on board, 12 x 12 inches
Siefart Supply, Three Oaks, MI plein air, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inche
Siefart Supply, Three Oaks, MI plein air, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inche
Three Oaks November, MI, Plein air, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches
Three Oaks November, MI, Plein air, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches
Warren Dunes Beach, oil on board, 12 x 12 inches
Warren Dunes Beach, oil on board, 12 x 12 inches
Warren Dunes Beach, oil on board, 12 x 12 inches
Warren Dunes Beach, oil on board, 12 x 12 inches
Warren Dunes Beach, oil on board, 12 x 12 inches
Warren Dunes Beach, oil on board, 12 x 12 inches
Silos, Three Oaks, MI, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches
Silos, Three Oaks, MI, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches
Barn, Plein air Three Oaks, MI,
Barn, Plein air Three Oaks, MI,
Three Oaks, MI plein air, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inche
Three Oaks, MI plein air, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inche
Seifert, Three Oaks, plein air oil on canvas
Seifert, Three Oaks, plein air oil on canvas
Three Oaks Road, oil on canvas, 16x20 IN
Three Oaks Road, oil on canvas, 16x20 IN
Three Oaks Library plein air, oil on canvas, 8 x 10 inches
Three Oaks Library plein air, oil on canvas, 8 x 10 inches
Land of the Free 148, oil on canvas, 66x52 IN 2017
Land of the Free 148, oil on canvas, 66x52 IN 2017
The Stratosphere, oil on canvas, 66x52 IN
The Stratosphere, oil on canvas, 66x52 IN
Pele Makes Landfall, oil on canvas, 36x36 IN
Pele Makes Landfall, oil on canvas, 36x36 IN
WINTERSTATE HIGH GROUND, oil on canvas, 20x20 IN
WINTERSTATE HIGH GROUND, oil on canvas, 20x20 IN
WINTERSTATE, oil on canvas, 20x20 IN
WINTERSTATE, oil on canvas, 20x20 IN
David Nakabayashi was born in Germany and grew up in Japan, Oklahoma, and Texas. He is a self-taught artist with a broad range of experience working as a cook, cotton chopper, musician, naturalist, graphic designer, and urban designer. His rootless childhood evolved into a lifelong exploration of the American landscape with its homogeneous sprawl, forgotten architecture, untamable nature and chance cultural encounters, all of which filter into his artwork. His body of work includes painting, works on paper, collage, mixed media sculpture, photography, and installation. He has had several solo exhibitions in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Michigan, and has been represented in group exhibitions at the El Paso Museum of Art, the Museo Regional in Chihuahua, Mexico, and Denise Bibro in New York City. Nakabayashi has lived in worked in New York City since 2013 and while there has exhibited his work at Bushwick Open Studios, The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture in Manhattan, and Iorimoto Gallery in Queens.
“Land of the Free”
Sometimes I think I’m free, but more often I feel trapped by this solitary art practice I chose or fell into by accident as if it were a hole in the ground, or found somewhere like a beautiful rock. I’ll stay in my studio for weeks, rarely travelling more than a few blocks, but then one morning rush over to Manhattan to stare at an old building or drive West for days until I see a sign on a fence that says “please close gate”. Maybe this idea of freedom is a shackle we’re forever trying to break, or maybe it’s just money that I’ll never have, or maybe it is the enlightened state I’m always longing for. The truth my America tells me may be true to someone but it’s not always real and telling the real from the myth is difficult these days. But I’m an artist, so I don’t need to tell the difference. My paintings, drawings and sculptures slip right in between truth and myth and flow from my past, and from my country’s past, straight into the discombobulated burning sexy future. Perhaps there is little freedom to be found in that.
December 9, 2016, Ridgewood, NY
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