Winston Wächter Fine Art is pleased to present New Paintings, our fourth solo exhibition with New York-based artist Hiro Yokose. In this newest body of work, Yokose continues to create exquisitely beautiful paintings that hover between Zen-like minimalist abstractions and traditional landscape paintings.

Hiro Yokose uses a subtle palette and technique that involves building up delicate, translucent layers of oil paint to create ambiguous, watery horizon lines with soft, tree-lined imagery. Buttery yellows, pail oranges and misty blues create an ethereal glow emanating from the center of each painting. Yokose’s landscapes give the impression of peering into a dream-shrouded vista, simultaneously provoking a sense of recognition and mystery.

In this new work Yokose has chosen to eschew his customary final layer of beeswax, allowing viewers to discern more detail in the landscape so one can now see individual brushstrokes that would otherwise be subsumed by a final haze of wax. His paintings continue to exude the unmistakable lush and romantic character for which Yokose is known.

For more information, contact Megan Des Jardins at (206) 652 5855.

















Northwest artist Christopher Boffoli combines miniature, hand-painted figurines from Germany with staged arrangements of food and beverages to create clever photographic vignettes.  Inspired by an unusual combination of magazine food photography and the 18th century fable Gulliver’s Travels, Boffoli explores how inverting the proportions of people and their surroundings create unexpected points of interest. Often juxtaposing activities that would normally cause little notice with likewise ordinary food items, Boffoli instantly draws a curious eye to both. This reoccurring cultural fascination with shrinking people and then re-releasing them into their natural surrounding to create dramatically altered realities can also be found in movies like The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Honey I Shrunk the Kids and Fantastic Voyage.

Boffoli’s images portray witty, comical or sentimental gestures as the small, animated figures engaged in routine actions and interact with the comparatively mammoth displays of food. These creative scenes evoke an uncanny, albeit theatrically portrayed, likeness to the world at large.  

Capturing a sense of humor found in everyday life, viewers are able to draw on personal experiences, memories or pastimes to further connect with each photograph. These quirky snapshots of people toiling in their own little worlds are revealed to be more than meets the eye.

Boffoli’s work has been shown throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. For more information, please contact Megan Des Jardins at (206) 652-5855.