NEWS | 6 Standout Artists Discovered at the Dallas Art Fair
April 10, 2024 - Paul Laster for Galerie
Kikuo Saito, Blue Train, (2010).PHOTO: COURTESY BERRY CAMPBELL, NEW YORK
Kikuo Saito at Berry Campbell
A Japanese-born abstract painter, Kikuo Saito—active in America from 1966, when he moved from Tokyo to New York at age 27—is getting a lot of art market attention again. Working in the avant-garde dance and theater worlds while assisting such established painters as Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, and Larry Poons, he had his first solo show of Color Field paintings in New York in 1976. Exhibiting around the world over the next 40 years, he moved on to painting Lyrical Abstractions in the last two decades of his life, before passing away in 2016. His large-scale 2010 canvas Blue Train, painted with bright colors and overlapping brushstrokes, is a prime example of the experimental artist’s mastery of the Lyrical Abstract style, as well as the painting medium.