Asuka Anastacia Ogawa: Yume

Asuka Anastacia Ogawa (b. 1988, Tokyo) is a Japanese Brazilian artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She spent part of her childhood in Brazil, attended high school in Stockholm and earned a BFA at Central Saint Martins in London. In her playfully enigmatic paintings, androgynous childlike figures, their dark skin rendered in rich earth tones, float in ambiguous scenes set in sparse color fields, gazing knowingly at the viewer. The adornments, objects, creatures and customary rites they enact draw on her Japanese and Afro-Brazilian ancestry, and ideas of familial storytelling and kinship with the spiritual world are central to her themes of affection, attachment and spirituality. Her work is held by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. "Yume," her first exhibition with Perrotin Los Angeles, brings together new paintings exploring meditative stillness and maternal care.