“Plush Paint” Exhibition

Next to Nothing

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Next to Nothing presents Plush Paint, an exhibition of paintings by Osamu Kobayashi, Jason Stopa, and Susan Carr. Painted in a style that initially presents the artwork as abstract before belying their more technical aspects, the presented bodies of work are revelations of pure texture that show the best there is to see of paint. With a palette of primary colors and occasional pastels, Carr, Kobayashi and Stopa’s paintings are rich with the patterns of their medium, a balanced composition of the thinnest strokes of a paintbrush to the thickest glob of paint, straight out of the tube.

Osamu Kobayashi (b. 1984, Columbia, SC) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He has exhibited widely in the US and abroad including solo exhibitions at Underdonk Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, AplusB Contemporary Art in Italy, Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, FL and the 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, SC. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Lissone Contemporary Art Museum, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery at Stony Brook University, Bronx River Art Center, and the Columbia Museum of Art. In 2013, Kobayashi was awarded the Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Fund from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic, The L Magazine, and Artcritical. He recently completed a residency at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, and will be a resident artist at the Lepsien Foundation in Düsseldorf, Germany this spring.

Jason Stopa (b. 1983) is a painter and critic living in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from Indiana University and his MFA from Pratt Institute. Recent solo exhibitions include “The Gate” at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects (2018). Recent group exhibitions include “PLAY” at Caldwell University, NJ, “Gnomons” at Non-Objectif Sud, France and “Witches & Dudes,” at Galerie KANT, Copenhagen.

Susan Carr graduated in 2003 with an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Tufts University with a semester at Radcliffe. She finished college twenty years later after many stops and starts, as she had four young children at the time. Recently, there have been challenges that affected her and her children’s lives - because of tis, her methods in art making have changed. Challenges always stretch and dare a person to live more courageously and try things that perhaps had been too fearsome for some unspecified reason. She is now trying to use these challenges as stepping stones.