
Masato Kobayashi
It’s hard to like Masato Kobayashi’s exhibition “Artist and the Model.” He paints with his own mass, making plump and messy gestural markings with his hands that culminate in abstractions and figures with fuzzy contours. The conventional format of painting is severely altered; many canvases are ruggedly attached to jagged wooden frames with long screws sticking out, adorning the gallery walls high and low in an apparent act of apostasy against “taste.” His drawings are likewise casually folded, creased, and torn. However, they don’t speak the language of camp; these works are more earnest. In