Toshiko Kitano Groner
Abstract Artist
Toshiko Kitano Groner’s journey as an artist began unexpectedly. While arranging exhibitions in New York for her brother, an abstract expressionist painter from Japan, a curator noticed one of her own paintings and encouraged her to exhibit. This moment sparked her emergence as a visual artist. Initially a singer-songwriter, Toshiko was an active member of New York’s music scene and became an ASCAP member. In 2001, she shifted her creative focus to painting, traveling through France, Italy, and Japan to capture landscapes in oils, pastels, and watercolors. She later earned a Certificate of Completion in Fine Art Painting from The Art Students League of New York. For the past decade, Toshiko has explored abstraction and semi-abstraction in oil and mixed media. Her work has been exhibited in galleries across New York City and beyond, with pieces held in collections across the U.S.
Harmonic Visions: The Color Symphony of Toshiko Kitano Groner
Toshiko Kitano Groner’s paintings embody a profound exploration of color as both form and emotion. Her work, rooted in the tradition of color field painting, transcends mere aesthetics, engaging in a delicate orchestration of hues that evoke both harmony and tension. As a self-proclaimed colorist, Groner masterfully balances vibrancy and subtlety, creating immersive experiences that resonate with the viewer on a visceral level. Her two distinct series—semi-abstract floral compositions and geometric abstractions—operate as parallel investigations of perception and structure. The floral works, emerging from fleeting impressions and subconscious imagery, carry an ethereal quality, as if distilling ephemeral beauty into lasting form. In contrast, her geometric abstractions, with their interplay of circles and lines, assert a rhythmic order, revealing an underlying logic within their simplicity. Groner’s background as a singer-songwriter informs her visual practice in a way that is both intuitive and deeply intentional. Just as she once wove melodies and lyrics into cohesive compositions, she now orchestrates colors and forms into visual harmonies. Her paintings function like musical arrangements—each hue a note, each composition a score—inviting the viewer into a sensorial dialogue between structure and spontaneity.
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on canvas
