Tomoo Gokita at Mary Boone Gallery

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.