Asako Tabata, The Ferry Approaches, 2024, oil on canvas, 38.2 x 51.3 x 1 inch (97 x 130.3 x 2.5cm), Photo by Kenichi Hashimoto

Asako Tabata: Waiting for Bones
September 4 – October 18, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 4, 6–8pm
525 West 26th Street, NYC

Seizan Gallery is pleased to present Asako Tabata: Waiting for Bones, on view from September 4–October 18, 2025. In her third and largest New York solo exhibition, the Japanese artist unveils over thirty new oil paintings and papier-mâché sculptures created in the past two years.

In this new body of work, Tabata deepens her allegorical approach through profoundly personal experience. Her paintings and sculptures inhabit the space between reality and imagination, where private moments resonate with universal meaning. Characterized by fragile surfaces, muted palettes, and expressive brushwork, they explore memory, mortality, and the passage of time. Inspired in part by the loss of her mother, her women, children, and spectral figures embody a delicate balance of whimsy and unease, intimacy and universality.

The gallery invites you to experience Waiting for Bones this fall, and to preview the exhibition in a new video where the artist offers a rare glimpse into her Tokyo studio.

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Alex Ito, This Is the Way, 2020, silver nitrate chromed resin, foam, oxidized iron powder, steel 30 x 30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 x 76.2 cm); Photo by Thomas Barratt

Tokyo Gendai
September 11 – 14, 2025
VIP Preview (by invite only) & Vernissage: Thursday, Sept 11
Booth A07
Pacifico Yokohama, 1-1-1 Minatomirai, Nishi Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa

They are also delighted to announce their inaugural participation in Tokyo Gendai, taking place September 11–14 at Pacifico Yokohama. At Booth A07, they will present works by Aya Fujioka, Alex Ito, and Toshiyuki Kajioka.

If you’re attending the fair, they warmly invite you to stop by and visit!

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