Japanese artist Tomoo Gokita’s stark black and white portraits of anonymous women (sometimes accompanied by male companions with zig-zag patterned heads) belies their ambiguous identities. ‘Sham Marriage’ deliciously includes a hand-like shape pointing off-stage. (At Chelsea’s Mary Boone Gallery through March 1st.)
Tomoo Gokita, Sham Marriage, 90” x 72,” acrylic gouache, charcoal, gesso/linen, 2013.
