Hisako
Kobayashi
“I want a process in my work which harmonizes the disorder of nature, our nature—the way music can embrace the impulses that both fuel and disrupt our lives. To make a whole from these parts: that is what I am after. It is in this way that my painting, though outwardly abstract, reflects my inner reality.”
Bio
Hisako Kobayashi is a Tokyo-born, New York-based abstract painter whose work reflects a deep synthesis of Japanese sensibility and American artistic training. Since earning her MFA from Pratt Institute in 1981, Kobayashi has exhibited internationally, creating paintings known for their emotional resonance and musicality. Art critic Donald Kuspit praised her for capturing the romantic ideal that art is best understood through feeling, comparing her nuanced use of color and gesture to the depth and subtlety of music. Living and working in Manhattan, she continues to explore abstraction as a means of evoking the soul’s inner vibrations.
Hisako Kobayashi
Tao
48" x 24"
Oil on Canvas
Hisako Kobayashi
Inherited Memory
34" x 23"
Oil on Paper
Hisako Kobayashi
Survivor
70" x 36"
Oil on Canvas
Hisako Kobayashi
Gaman
70” x 29.75"
Oil on Canvas
Hisako Kobayashi
Gather Together Strands of the Past
58" x 40"
Oil on Canvas
Hisako Kobayashi
The Messenger
60" x 48"
Oil on Canvas
Hisako Kobayashi
Voice of a Father That Never Dies
36" x 24"
Oil on Canvas
Hisako Kobayashi
Beauty is Momentary In The Mind
78" x 38"
Oil on Canvas
Hisako Kobayashi
Utsure Yuku
72" x 28"
Oil on Canvas
Hisako Kobayashi
Beyond
18" x 24"
Oil on Canvas
Hisako Kobayashi
Shion
72” x 28"
Oil on Canvas
Hisako Kobayashi
Beauty in a Simple Scene
36" x 48"
Oil on Canvas
Hisako Kobayashi
Gaman
30" x 24"
Oil on Canvas
Hisako Kobayashi
Tane
25.5" x 24"
Oil on Canvas
Hisako Kobayashi
Gathering Strands of the Past
44" x 34"
Oil on Canvas
Hisako Kobayashi
Gift
36" x 24"
Oil on Canvas
Hisako Kobayashi
Never Been
53" x 48"
Oil on Canvas
Hisako Kobayashi
Gaman
36" x 24"
Oil on Canvas
Hisako Kobayashi
Wonder of the World
36" x 48"
Oil on Canvas