ATM Gallery is pleased to present In Between Shadows – a solo exhibition of paintings by Keita Morimoto. Located at 54 E Henry St, New York, the show will run from October 14 – November 13, 2022. Keita Morimoto began painting when he moved from Japan to Canada at age sixteen. In 2021, he returned, moving to Tokyo. In Between Shadows presents a continuation of a series that Morimoto began on his return. 

Night scenes of Tokyo streets, where Morimoto wandered for inspiration, rest at the heart of this series. Using his phone, Morimoto documented what he found: scenes of people waiting, quiet interludes amidst a multitude of signs, the saturation of artificial light, a world in which banal moments were flooded with meaning. 

Poetic moments are captured in photographs and manipulated digitally, where Morimoto experiments with color and composition. Working in oil, acrylic and on canvas and panel, he paints in sections, simultaneously decisive and meticulous; refuses the temptation to paint over a completed section. Glossy finishes contain a harsh realism, in which psychic depths haunt both his figures and landscapes. Through this series, Morimoto's presence presses back, through the street scenes, humid nights, and unblinking light. In Between Shadows is the work of a wanderer, of someone who stalks the night, and is most at home while painting. 

Keita Morimoto (b. 1990, Osaka, Japan) is a Tokyo-based artist. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto (MOCA), Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario, and the Nicholas Metivier Gallery in Toronto, and Kotaro Nugara Gallery in Tokyo. In Between Shadows is Morimoto’s first solo exhibition with ATM Gallery, and marks the inaugural solo exhibition of his work in New York City.