GALLERY
Knight-Brown Gallery 248 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10014
Gallery Hours
Tuesday & Friday, 11 AM to 4:30 PM (Closed in August)
Cover Image: Tad Nakamura, “Tranquility 12” , 2022
The Knight-Brown Gallery is pleased to continue its 42-year tradition of presenting exceptional mid-career artists in our Fall Gallery Show. Our curatorial team has selected five individuals whose work demonstrates both creative vision and technical proficiency across a range of visual arts disciplines.
I invite you to join us in welcoming these artists to the Gallery. Their inclusion in this exhibition represents a significant achievement, and I look forward to sharing their work with you.
Sincerely,
Hortense Knight-Brown
Hortense Knight-Brown Managing Director Knight-Brown Gallery
Tad Nakamura (b. 1987)
Born into the neon-lit chaos of Tokyo’s Shibuya district, Tad Nakamura’s childhood was anything but traditional. His father, a pachinko parlor owner, and his mother, a manga artist, filled their home with a kaleidoscope of colors, sounds, and stories. It was amidst this sensory overload that Tad discovered his love for art.
Tad’s artistic journey began with the elegant lines of Japanese calligraphy, which he transformed into vibrant graffiti art that adorned the city’s hidden corners. He was particularly drawn to the minimalist aesthetics of Ikebana flower arrangements, incorporating floral imagery into his street compositions.
A backpacking trip to Europe exposed Tad to the techniques of the Old Masters, particularly their still-life paintings. The interplay of light and shadow captivated him, adding a new dimension to his artistic palette.
Returning home, Tad embarked on a quest to fuse his diverse artistic visions. The result is a body of work that defies easy categorization. His graffiti art background sometimes breaks through, juxtaposing disparate elements to create anachronistic chaos amidst harmony.
Tad’s paintings are a testament to his unique upbringing and his restless artistic spirit. They invite the viewer to step into a world where tradition and modernity, East and West, collide and coalesce.
“Mixed Results”, 2023
Harry Jones (b. 1994)
Harry, a Boston native, has always been captivated by colors and patterns. His early fascination with stripes blossomed into a lifelong passion, shaping his artistic journey from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) to a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University.
Harry’s paintings, while influenced by abstract expressionism, transcend mere patterns of colored lines. For him, they are concrete timelines, meticulously chronicling his life’s emotional landscape. Each painting begins with a diary entry. This is translated into lines that trace the contours of his feelings. Some paintings capture fleeting moments, while others show the events that unfolded over months.
These lines are not solely about Harry; they intertwine with the trajectories of others, their lives intersecting and diverging within the canvas. Discontinuities, he emphasizes, are intentional, each representing a significant event that disrupted his path.
For Harry, stripes are not merely a stylistic choice—they are a profound medium for emotional expression, a visual language that translates the complexities of his life into a tapestry of color and form.
“Covid! 8/21-5/22” 2022
“Friends help each other 6/05-8/05”, 2019
