Mayumi Nakao
Nakao’s studio is located in Brooklyn, New York.
Born in Hyogo, Japan, and now based in Brooklyn NY, Mayumi Nakao moved to New York City in 2013.
Lately, her focus has been on improving her skills in painting while absorbing various styles in order to arrive at a more sophisticated take on representational art. For her, representation has generated a methodology of sourcing and technique that has evolved into a very personal vision almost as if it’s her own genre.
She recently obtained a certificate of fine art at the Students League, where she was inspired to paint in oil and to take her practice more seriously. Her latest paintings are based on family photos of American friends who grew up in New York City. She mixes photorealistic representations with the imaginations of the past in order to create the paintings.
