About the artist:

Masaaki Noda was born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, in 1949, and he studied at Osaka University of Arts. Seeking more individual self-expression and feeling restricted by cultural and artistic conventions, he moved to New York City in 1977 on a scholarship to the Art Students League of New York. While in Japan, Noda had already been inspired by the spirit of modern Western styles, particularly op art and geometric and systematic elements. Although he quickly became established, he still felt restricted by cultural and artistic conventions. Having sundered these bonds by emigrating to Manhattan, where he ended up in the heart of SoHo, he embarked on his independent artistic journey, free of schools and systems, though never, of course, ultimately free of the influence of his birth culture and environment.

What has followed has been a unique mix of visual delicacy, formal aesthetic, and spiritual response to the natural world with the untrammeled energy and larger artistic scope opened up for Noda by New York City and its nearly half century of expressionistic and conceptual freedom.