Juxtapoz Magazine - Chad Hasegawa Captures "The Chase Scene"

"Good Mother Gallery is pleased to present The Chase Scene, a solo exhibition of new paintings by San Francisco based artist Chad Hasegawa, on view through October 24, 2025. Known for his bold abstractions that fuse precision with intensity, Hasegawa brings hard-edge minimalism into dialogue with atmosphere, emotion, and movement. With The Chase Scene, he turns painting into an exploration of momentum itself, transforming color and form into meditations on pursuit, suspension, and release."

"Hasegawa paints the paradox of speed where stillness burns and movement holds its breath. His new works move beyond geometry into psychological terrain. Planes of color unfold as atmospheric fields, while sharp cuts register like edits in film. The paintings suggest headlights, tunnels, or arcs of architecture but never settle into image. They remain elemental-sweeps of light, sudden cuts of shadow, surfaces that ignite or dissolve."

"Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Hasegawa carries with him an adolescent sensibility that has never been abandoned, a need for accessibility that makes even his most austere abstractions feel open and direct. His paintings refuse obscurity. Instead, they are invitations into mood and sensation, experiences that ignite without explanation. This spirit of accessibility coexists with discipline, creating works that burn hot with tension yet ease into contemplative calm."

The Chase Scene features new paintings by San Francisco–based artist Chad Hasegawa that fuse precision with intensity and bring hard-edge minimalism into dialogue with atmosphere, emotion, and movement. The works transform color and form into meditations on pursuit, suspension, and release, articulating a paradox of speed where stillness burns and movement holds its breath. Planes of color act as atmospheric fields while sharp cuts register like film edits, suggesting headlights, tunnels, or arcs without resolving into representational image. An adolescent sensibility and commitment to accessibility keep the abstractions open and direct, balancing combustion and contemplation in a choreographed sequence of perception.

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