YUICHIRO SHIBATA Monoprints 1970–2000s 

September 12 – October 3, 2026 Visit, Newburgh, New York 

Visit is pleased to present Yuichiro Shibata: Monoprints 1970–2000s, an archive exhibition celebrating over three decades of work by an artist who has spent nearly six decades bridging the art worlds of Tokyo and New York. 

Born in Tokyo in 1945, Shibata moved to New York in 1967, immersing himself in the city's music and art scenes during one of its rawest, most electric eras. He made his solo debut that same year, and in the decades since, his work has been shown across New York, Tokyo, Rome, and Barcelona. 

Through it all, the highs of success and the lows of downtime, the brushes with both celebrity and NYC's shadier corners, all while moving through the city as an immigrant and wheelchair user, he has held fast to a singular artistic vision. That vision is philosophical as much as visual. Shibata treats painting as a way of making the complex simple: dynamic spirals pull the eye into and out of the canvas, geometric forms shift and recede, and fields of intense color hold a spatial ambiguity that shifts with the light and the viewer's position. What reads at first as clean, quiet elegance gives way, the longer you look, to real complexity, his reminder that life itself is not a circle but a spiral, since between the earth's rotation, its orbit, and the galaxy's drift through space, we are never in the same place twice. 

This exhibition brings together monoprints spanning more than thirty years of that practice, tracing how Shibata's geometric language of spirals, ovoids, and angular lines has evolved while returning again and again to the same persistent question: how can a two-dimensional image suggest movement through space and time? 

Shibata often likens art to a fireworks display, a brief, physical experience of awe that leaves memory and inspiration behind long after it ends. Well into the 21st century, he continues to deliver just that.