Asako Tabata: Waiting for Bones
Seizan Gallery, NYC, October 18th, 2025
When you arrive at Seizan Gallery, you’re at the top of the stairs, and down the left side, you see The Closed Room. (I was hooked).
Asako Tabata: The Closed Room, 2025, Oil on panel
You can scroll down, or first let the artist take you through her studio and her thinking, feeling, as she makes and thinks about making some of these works. They are tender responses to, and explorations of, her questions about the edges of life and death.
If anything doesn’t fit
I just add another canvas
This person is here
—excerpt from ASAKO TABATA: WAITING FOR BONES - YouTube
Asako Tabata: Swing, 2025, Oil on canvas
Asako Tabata: Voice, 2025, Acrylic on Washi paper
Asako Tabata: Hello?, 2025, Oil on canvas, Figure: acrylic on Washi paper, paper clay, Chair: acrylic on Washi paper mounted on wood panel (right)
Asako Tabata: Can’t Sleep, 2025, Acrylic on Washi paper, paper clay, rattle