Mixed Media/Painting

Discover a dynamic body of work that fuses photographic processes, unconventional materials, and expressive painting. Masashi Ohtsu’s mixed media and paintings traverse themes of transformation, identity, and cultural intersection. Each piece blends traditional techniques—such as silver-halide printing, acrylics, and oil stick—with experimental integrations of resin, fabric, found objects, and everyday materials.

Notable projects span decades, from the tactile depths of “Plastic Fantastic” and “A Tryptic with Dyptics” to landmark series like “Scenes from a Pandemic” and “Reflections in Transit.” Ohtsu’s art has been showcased in New York’s leading galleries and commissioned for public and private spaces, reflecting both technical mastery and an ongoing curiosity for the interplay between image, surface, and meaning.

All works are original, often large-scale, and many evolve as works in progress—mirroring a personal process shaped by both studio experimentation and life in New York City.

Explore an archive that invites the viewer to experience painting not just as a spectacle of color, but as a layered meditation on contemporary experience and material possibility.

Plastic Fantastic - 24" x 20" Mixed Media: silver halide print on canvas, acrylic paint, acrylic polymer, condoms

A Tryptic with Dyptics - Three Easy Pieces - 7' x 4' (x3) Mixed media: Silver-halide print, acrylic polymer, glue, canvas on a wood core

Cross Series - 1. Female Cross- 2. Male Cross - 3. Baby Cross- 4. Confrontation (48.6" x 45.6") - 1991 Mixed media: silve-halide print, stucco fiorentino, acrylic paint, acrylic resin, canvas on wood core, wood frame

69 Roses - Mixed Media 48" x 44" - 1989 Mixed media: Plaster. acrylic resin, roses, silver-halide print, acrlyic paint on a wood core.

Untitled - 6' x 9' Mixed media: silver-halide print, acrylic on canvas

Choose Your Icon - 54 x 78" - 1991 Acrylic on canvas

East Meets west, East Vs West - 7' x 3' (x3) - 1991 Oil on canvas, oil stick

Stress Tie: 48" x 56" - 1990 Acrylic, oil stick on canvas

Projects:

2022 Scenes from a Pandemic
2022 A Photo a Day (Work in Progress)
2022 Experiments with Sound and Vision (Work in Progress)

2016 Reflections in Transit (Work in Progress)

2011 Release: Wet Pinkey

2010 Release: A Soundtrack to an Imaginary Film
2010 Birth of Son

2009 Black Crowes Cabin Fever Movie: Co-Director, DP, Editor

2001 Established buddhafunk label

1995 Established bmm art & computer inc. Partner/ Creative

Private Commissions:

1997      Zucca, NYC
1997      Warren-Tricomi Salon, NYC
1997      Private Residence, NYC
1997      Private Residence, NYC

Solo Exhibitions:

1992      Janos Gat Gallery, NYC
1992      The Wall, NYU
1990      Club Elements, NYC
1990      Club USA, NYC
1990      The Palladium, Michael Todd Room, NYC

Group Exhibitions:

1992 Gallery LOK, NYC

Performer:

1992 8 Street Productions, “King of Pleasure” Teatro LATEA, NYC
1991 Squat Theatre, “Full Moon Killer” The Kitchen, NYC

education:

Parsons School of Design: BFA, Photography
Currently living and working in New York City