Key Works

The stunning variety of works in Kazuo Nakamura’s oeuvre reflects an intensely curious, experimental mind that sought to dissect nature, intent on understanding its underlying structure. At first he painted cityscapes of Vancouver, then the wilderness of the British Columbia interior where his family was interned during the Second World War. After he settled in Toronto, his works explored the nature of time and space, oscillating between figuration and abstraction. Drawing on mathematics, science, philosophy, and art history, and blending Eastern and Western influences, Nakamura created art that gradually peeled away the layers of the visible world to expose the beauty of its numerical structure.