STREET TREES

Chinatown Soup is pleased to present Street Trees, an exhibition of acrylic and mixed media works by Masamitsu Shigeta that is on view through December 15, 2019. Please join us for an opening reception on Tuesday, December 10 from 6-9pm. This showcase is part of Chinatown Soup’s ongoing commitment to support student artists in New York. 

And now, a message from the artist…

I like working around city. It is exciting to see new things. 

One day I work 9th street and next day is 10th street. 

In this show I have works from 2018 to early 2019. Paintings of tree on street. 

I like the energetic shape of trees.  

I felt I was painting a portrait because each tree has different character, mood, seen.

Masamitsu Shigeta (b. 1992) moved from Tokyo, his homeland, to New York in 2013. Here, he pursued his passion for painting and graduated with a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2018. Currently, Masamitsu is a first-year MFA candidate at New York University, where he enjoys experimenting with mixed media abstraction and metaphysical conceptualization.