SUMMER WAVES
by A-Mashiro
ONE OF FIFTEEN REMAINS
“The elements themselves were already part of my visual language, but by changing the way I used them, I discovered a space within my own work that I hadn’t seen before. It felt like I had found a new world of my own.”
SUMMER WAVES BY A-MASHIRO
Some works continue an artist’s language. Others expand its possibilities.
Summer Waves does both.
For more than two decades, A-Mashiro has worked with circles, lines, color, Japanese patterns, and the natural world. These elements have become a visual language of their own, shaped across years of physical and digital creation. Traditionally, his patterns remained contained within forms defined by circles and lines.
In Summer Waves, something changed.
While searching for what the composition still needed, A-Mashiro allowed the wave pattern to escape those boundaries and move across the entire image. What began as an experiment unexpectedly transformed the work. The composition no longer contained pattern. It moved through it.
The discovery did not replace A-Mashiro’s existing language. It expanded it. As he describes it, allowing pattern to move freely across the image has given him “one more possibility” to carry into whatever comes next.
Summer Waves captures that moment of discovery: familiar elements rearranged until they reveal somewhere the artist had not been before.
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ABOUT
SUMMER WAVES
I grew up near the sea. The view of the water, the smell of the tide. I still love them, and I have been painting the seasons for a long time now; Summer Waves continues that line of work.
While I was working on it, the paintings of David Hockney were somewhere in the back of my mind. Nothing of his appears in the piece directly, but I wanted to make a painting with that kind of bright atmosphere.
I have painted circles and Japanese patterns many times. This time, though, instead of only enclosing the pattern within lines, I set the wave motif boldly across the whole picture. Doing so let me express a brightness that isn't confined by a frame, and it also feels like I found a new world of my own.
ABOUT
A-MASHIRO
A-Mashiro makes geometric abstractions that hold order and chaos in the same frame. Circles, lines, and squares settle over flowing, ink-bled grounds, each element placed, in his words, “as if they were there originally.”
Raised on Japan’s coast in a family home more than 150 years old, he grew up surrounded by traditional patterns, nature, and the quiet logic of functional beauty. More than two decades of oil and acrylic painting followed, shaped as much by Western approaches to color and composition as by the Japanese visual traditions he inherited. In 2021, he carried that painter’s hand into digital media, where the underlying discipline remains unchanged: every work is a search for balance, built stroke by stroke.
For A-Mashiro, creating is a way of steadying the mind, his own first, then the viewer’s. That pursuit has taken his work to exhibitions in Tokyo, Seattle, New York, Miami, and across Europe, as well as projects with Bright Moments in Tokyo and Venice and work on SuperRare. He is equally committed as a collector and curator, introducing international artists to Japan while helping connect Japanese artists with the wider world. He lives and works in Tokyo.
The Journey
A language built over two decades
Long before Summer Waves, A-Mashiro had been assembling its parts. Line, color, Japanese pattern and the seasons each entered his work at a different moment, and each stayed.
Summer Waves is the first work in which all of them move together, and the first in which the pattern is allowed to leave the shapes that once held it.
“All of my previous works are connected, and each new work grows from what came before.”
A-Mashiro
- Before 2021
Paint
More than two decades of oil and acrylic painting, shaped by Western approaches to color and composition and by the patterns of a 150-year-old family home on Japan's coast.
- 2021
Lines + Color
A-Mashiro brings his painter's hand into digital media. The early compositions are built almost entirely from line and color.
The Times, The Cheers, The Stories Never End, 2021 - 2022
Pattern enters
Traditional Japanese patterns appear in the work, held inside the circles and lines that structure each composition.
Delight, 2022 - 2022
Seasons + Nature
The seasons and the natural world become part of the language, carried through the same geometry.
Snow Rabbit Disappears on Winter Path, 2022 - 2026
Summer Waves
For the first time, the wave pattern crosses the entire composition. Line, color, pattern and season meet in a single image, and the pattern is no longer contained.
Summer Waves, 2026
Closer look
Digital + Physical
Summer Waves exists first as a digital painting. Its physical edition is not intended simply to reproduce it.
For the 24 × 36 inch (61 × 91.4 cm) print, A-Mashiro worked with 360°GRAPHICS, a Tokyo printmaking studio founded in 1982. The work is printed on Kakita 300, a Japanese silkscreen printmaking paper. The studio has produced works for artists including Yayoi Kusama, Tadanori Yokoo, and Yoko Ono.
The underlying image is printed in giclée. The first layer of medium gives the surface a distinctive sheen while also protecting the image. The second layer of ink renders the wave pattern in silver, giving the surface a physical character that cannot be experienced on a screen.
The result is a different encounter with the same work: one transmitted through light, the other through ink, surface, and scale.
The edition is limited to 15. Each $750 acquisition includes the digital artwork and its matching museum-quality print, hand-signed and numbered by A-Mashiro. One work, two encounters.
Buyers are responsible for any applicable import duties or VAT on their purchase. Please allow up to 10 weeks for the print to arrive.
Summer Waves by A-Mashiro
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Collection Size
15 editions
One remains, available first come, first served.
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Purchase Price
$750 USD, paid by credit card, debit card, or Apple Pay
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Digital + Print
Each $750 purchase includes the digital artwork and one museum-quality, hand-signed physical print.
Buyers are responsible for any applicable import duties or VAT on their print purchase. Please allow up to 10 weeks for your print to arrive.
FAQ
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Summer Waves is a digital painting by Tokyo-based artist A-Mashiro, released as an edition of 15. Each edition pairs the digital artwork with a hand-signed, numbered 24 × 36 inch print.
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For more than two decades, A-Mashiro kept his Japanese patterns inside the circles and lines that structure his compositions. In Summer Waves, for the first time, he lets the wave pattern move beyond those boundaries and across the entire image, with brightness as an explicit aim. He describes the discovery as “one more possibility” to carry into the work that follows.
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Summer Waves was digitally painted entirely by hand. A-Mashiro developed the linework using a Wacom pen display and Clip Studio Paint before working extensively with color, pattern, and texture in Photoshop. The process included repeated color adjustments, detailed pattern editing, and close inspection of individual lines and forms.
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No. Summer Waves is neither generative nor AI-generated. The artwork was digitally drawn and painted by A-Mashiro entirely by hand.
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Yes. Every edition includes a 24 × 36 inch (61 × 91.4 cm) print, hand-signed and numbered by A-Mashiro and produced in Tokyo by 360°GRAPHICS, a printmaking studio founded in 1982 that has produced works for artists including Yayoi Kusama, Tadanori Yokoo, and Yoko Ono. A giclée base is finished with a protective medium and a final silkscreened layer of silver ink, which gives the wave pattern a reflective quality that cannot be seen on screen. The print is conceived as its own physical expression of the work, not a reproduction of the digital file.
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The final editions are available on this page for $750 USD each, which includes both the digital artwork and the hand-signed print. Pay by credit card, debit card, or Apple Pay. Editions are available first come, first served.
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